Past Issues - Voyages

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

Criticism

RENATA CARLONI | Note sulla questione del genere nella lingua Italiana
LUIS RAMOS | Art as Cultural Diplomacy: The Politics of Exhibiting Mexico’s Revolutionary Modernism in MEXIQUE 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco et les avant-gardes
GUIDO REVERDITO | Lunga vita agli sbarchi: La convenienza dell’orrore. Lampedusa tra emergenza umanitaria e sfruttamento in celluloide.
MATTEO SANSONE | Pierrot: A Silent Witness of Changing Times
JUSTIN RANDOLPH THOMPSON | Question the Answers…all of them

Creativity

RICHARD JAMES ALLEN | A Party in Small Moments | Three Spires | It’s Saturday night in almost any city around the world and
SOPHIE CURZON-SIGGERS | vocali in scambio | canto dei plurali | catalogo degli acquai
GLEN PHILLIPS | HARD BITTEN (or, on Making Poetry Great Again)
ALESSANDRA SARCHI | The Swimmer
NATHAN SHEPHERDSON | a ladder cannot be convinced to climb down from itself | red-prayered | pear | peach
MELINDA SMITH | The other manual | Considering Lake Canobolas | There will be
RITA TOGNINI | A Good Foundation

Visual Art

NICOLÒ PANZERI | Sătŭra

Issue 5 (Summer 2016)

Criticism

RICCARDO DONATI | Chronicles of the Regime. Fascist Sexual Psychology after Fascism: literary echoes
GABRIELA DRAGNEA HORVATH | Book Review: Philosophy as an Art of Dying
BRIAN G. HENNING | La Stewardship e le radici della crisi ecologica
WERNER VORDTRIEDE | Young T.S. Eliot

Creativity

DEJAN ATANACKOVIC | Something Like a Mirror
GIUSEPPE BERTO | Oh Serafina! A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
NATHALIE HANDAL | Haifa, My Longing | Haifa Blues | Talhamiyeh
KRISTINA HOČEVAR | You Step Into Your Own Ring
BHIMAGOUDA PATIL | Who Calls Me in This Darkness?
WALLIS WILDE MENOZZI | Life-fuse | Long After | Drawing a Line

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Essays

BURT HOPKINS | Image and Original in Plato’s Meno: On the Necessity of Imagination for Learning

Creative Writing

Poetry
JOHN MAHNKE | Vines | Territory | Trespasses
D.S. BUTTERWORTH | The Historian Returning Home | Old Woman Raking Leaves: Sonata in A Minor for Solo Flute by J.S. Bach
Prose
JULIO MONTEIRO MARTINS | As You Were Sleeping
SERENA BALDINI | When the Fields Were Running
BARET MAGARIAN | The Rich and the Slaughtered

Eclecta

VITTORIA CHIERICI | Diary
NINA D’ALESSANDRO | Encounters with the City: A Year in Florence
OLGA VISHNYAKOVA | Heart of a Dog — A Reading

Book Reviews

G. DRAGNEA HORVATH | The Cambridge Companion to Italian Renaissance
D.S. BUTTERWORTH | Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna

Issue 3 (Spring 2014)

Essays

PAOLO ROSSI | On Pain at the End of Time
JAMES RISSER | The Humanities and the Art of Imagination
IRMGARD FUCHS-LEVY | Authority and Domination: Nihilism as an Answer to the Absurd
GEORGIE ANN WEATHERBY | Daring to Be Different – The Impact of Positive Deviance on the Global Stage
COSTICA BRADATAN | Elogio del Falimento
FRANCESCO VOSSILLA | Valentino Moradei Gabbrielli

Creative Writing

Poetry
STUART FRIEBERT | Cephalocaudal | Birds of Paradise | Head Shy | Jacanas |Supersedure
ANNETTE BARNES | At the Post Office | Women Dressing and Undressing
ANDREW KAUFMANN | Children in the Forest | Against Dying
SHARON KUBASAK | Stakeout | Darkroom Interludes

Prose
GLEN PHILLIPS Wake in Fear
GLEN PHILLIPS The Poetics of Landscape

Issue 2 (Summer 2013)

Essays

THOMAS JEANNOT | Gadamer, Dewey, Marx: Work and Interpretation
SERGIO GIVONE | The Metaphysics of the Plague
MICHAEL PRINGLE & ERIK SCHMIDT | Re-Thinking Education: Philosophy and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
SERENA BALDINI & DAVID MARINI | Counselling e il nuovo status del docente
PATRICK WEST | Lying Idiots: Reality Television & Lie to Me

Creative Writing

RADU R. SERBAN | The Question of the Lion in Landscape Art
STUART FRIEBERT | A Wrestler Named Plato | Beast of Kings | Flying Wedding Rings | Sea Squirt | Shadow
GLEN PHILLIPS | The Rest of My Mind | Yenyenning Lakes Evensong 1949 | China Dream
ELVIRA LATO | La Fontana Maggiore | Piero della Francesca | Rimpianto

Issue 1 (Spring 2013)

Translations

D.S. BUTTERWORTH | Alchemies
ALESSANDRO POLCRI | There is Always a Point Where You Hesitate | If I Linger Near the Woods

Essays

GABRIELA DRAGNEA HORVATH | Thinking with Flowers
PATRICK BURKE | Marsilio Ficino and the Sacrament of Color
PIERLUCA BIRINDELLI | La Difficolta’ Teorica nell ‘Interpretare il Rapporto Soggetti-Territorio Firenze e l’area Metropolitana
CHIARA TOGNOLOTTI | L’Immagine di Firenze nel Cinema d’Autore
MERCEDES MATOS CARRARA | Mario Bernocchi: The Master of the Gold Florin

Creative Writing

BETH COOLEY | Flora
GLEN PHILLIPS | After Chamber Music | On the Pietà of Michelangelo

Deadline for the forthcoming issue: April 30.

The recent authoritarian turn in global politics—from Brazil to the United States and from Turkey to the Philippines– has caused great consternation in the humanities and social sciences. Coupled with the resurgence of old and new racisms and an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, this shift has prompted scholars to rethink previously held assumptions about democracy in the twenty-first- century. Probing its underlying causes, scholars across disciplines are calling into question the intellectual foundations of modern democracy—foundations rooted in renaissance humanism and enlightenment political thought. To quote one observer, is the age of humanism over?

In other words, has the rational subject of renaissance humanism and enlightenment modernity given way to a new subject defined by unbridled market values and commodified human relations? Or rather, does the current proliferation of authoritarian and neoliberal state actors merely signal the dark underside of the philosophical discourse of modernity as others have previously suggested? Similarly, are we witnessing the birth pangs of a new world order characterized by overt forms of domination? Alternately, how can a renewed and critical understanding of the humanist and enlightenment philosophical traditions serve to confront the virulent forms of violence and exclusion that characterize the shifting geopolitical landscape? In short, what are the philosophical and literary resources available to artists and intellectuals seeking to grapple with the erosion of democratic norms in contemporary modes of governance?

Voyages: Journal of Contemporary Humanism seeks to become a forum for debate on these questions, asking whether this pessimism is justified, where its sources and logic stem from, and most importantly, how humanism, past and present, can serve as a vehicle for resolving the problems facing the world today.

ISSN 2283-6578