Children in the Forest | Against Dying

Creativity
Andrew Kaufman

Issue 3 (Spring 2014)

Children in the Forest

Against Dying

Voyages welcomes contributions on the following topic for the next issue. Deadline: January 15.

Ecology is an ineluctable dimension of contemporary humanism, but the variety of problems and approaches related to it speak to the tensions between nature and culture, the doctrine of progress and the human-induced imbalance that resulted in global climate change. Ecological activism and politics, global and local economics, corporate social responsibility and profit all contribute to (or aggravate) what seems to be an increasingly intractable problem.

Scientists, scholars, writers and artists, activists and politicians have expressed concerns and have suggested many, often contradictory, solutions. Countries meet and sign agreements, but notwithstanding these efforts, the problem of climate change remains. Admittedly, coordinating global solutions is an arduous task, but there is still scepticism about mankind’s role in this process and a mental inertia visible in official and unofficial social media statements. Has humanity exhausted its creative and conceptual capacity to solve this problem? What role, if any, could humanistic disciplines play in a more ecologically sustainable present and future?

ISSN 2283-6578

Children in the Forest | Against Dying

Creativity
Andrew Kaufman

Read More

Voyages: The Journal of Contemporary Humanism ( ISSN 2283-6578)

Sections