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Issue 4

  • Julio Monterio Martins / Creativity

    As You Were Sleeping

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  • Serena Baldini / Creativity

    When the Fields Were Running

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  • Nina d'Alessandro / Creativity

    Encounters With the City: A Year in Florence

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  • John Mahnke / Creativity

    Vines | Territory | Trespasses

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  • D.S. Butterworth / Criticism

    Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna

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  • Olga Vishnyakova / Criticism

    Mikhail Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog – A Reading

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  • Baret Magarian / Creativity

    The Rich and the Slaughtered

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  • Vittoria Chierici / Creativity

    Diario di Bordo

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  • Gabriela Dragnea Horvath / Criticism

    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

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  • D.S. Butterworth / Creativity

    The Historian Returning Home | Old Woman Raking Leaves: Sonata in A Minor for Solo Flute

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Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna

Criticism

D.S. Butterworth

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Glen Phillips:  Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna, with Rose van Son, and Rita Tognini, International Center for Landscape and Language Press, 2014. It is often observed the …

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Criticism

Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Michael Wyatt, editor: The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Aimed “to provide a broad framework for the interdisciplinary study of the Italian Renaissance” (xvii), the volume contains 17 essays that …

Mikhail Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog – A Reading

Criticism

Olga Vishnyakova

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Note: page numbers from Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a dog, are given in brackets, while the end notes include the other referenced texts. Truth coming only through suffering this is true, rest assured. But they …

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Encounters With the City: A Year in Florence

Creativity

Nina d'Alessandro

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Every explorer names his island Formosa, beautiful. To him it is beautiful because, being first, he has access to it and can see it for what it is. But to no one else is it …

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  • STEFANO ADAMO | When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy
  • MAGDA BOGIN | Excerpt from Suppose It Begins Here
  • MARYAM EL-SHALL | Demystifying the War on Terror
  • RIINA KATAJVUORI | La figlia del sagrestano | Il capitano James Cook | Lettera al capitano James Cook da sua moglie
  • FRANCESCO LEVY | Azimuths of Celestial Bodies
  • ERIK LINDNER | I remember | A stairway leads into the sea | Ostend | If I’m lost for words
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  • NICOLE ROBINSON | The Privilege of Watching Neighborhood Baseball | What the Bones Say | America, 2017
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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.

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