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Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
(2017)
Abstract
This short essay is designed as an introduction to the new journal EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES IN IMAGINATIVE CULTURE (ESIC). The journal is designed to make use of an opportunity that has only recently opened up for the social sciences and the humanities. These fields now have before them the prospect of a synthesis that would produce, for the first time, a comprehensive and scientifically robust understanding of the human condition. ESIC is founded on the assumption that imaginative culture is an essential part of the human condition. Evolutionary cultural study is still establishing itself as a distinct field. ESIC will provide a nexus for research in that field—to help scholars stay informed about the newest thinking in evolutionary cultural theory, to illuminate connections between findings in seemingly disparate disciplines, to help establish a body of common knowledge, and to set standards for informed and theoretically competent commentary. Already, evolutionary scholars and scientists who focus on humanistic subjects have produced a substantial body of work, much of it good, some of it excellent. That kind of work points a way toward the future. This journal is meant to be an avenue into that future.
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Publication Date
2017
Citation Information
Joseph C. Carroll. "Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture" Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Vol. 1 Iss. 1 (2017) p. vii - xiii Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph-carroll/87/