Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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On Fear: Perception and Strategies of Control in Seventeenth Century Philosophy [Paperback]
Francesco Cerrato (Author)
£13.99ISBN: 9788869774157
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
The volume considers the theories of the passions in Hobbes, Descartes and Spinoza. Particular attention is given to the passion of fear, highlighting how these three writers considered fear as both an individual and a collective affect. Cerrato u... .... Learn More -
Atmospheres in the Urban World: Creating and Feeling Immaterial Spaces [Paperback]
Jürgen Hasse (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773990
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
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The volume offers an interdisciplinary discussion on the relevance of atmospheres of the city as well as on dwelling, drawing on Heidegger’s understanding of as the way people are on earth. Related topics are approached from a range of angles, pro... .... Learn More -
Richard Price and the Foundation of Virtue: Some Historical Roots of Contemporary Ethics in “A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals” [Paperback]
Francesco Allegri (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773945
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
Although little known, Richard Price’s A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758) is one of the most important texts of eighteenth-century moral philosophy. Hastings Rasdhall described it “as the best work published on Ethics till quite ... .... Learn More -
Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic [Paperback]
Marco Piazza (Editor); Corinna Guerra (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773297
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
In the year 2020, everything we used to think about our habits has been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all those who went through it, radically affecting our freedom of movement and all those social... .... Learn More -
The Future of the Post: New Insights in the Postmodern Debate [Paperback]
Elisa Bricco Bricco (Editor); Luca Malavasi (Editor)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773761
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
The current volume brings together a collection of essays from the conference "The Postmodern Condition: Forty Years Later" held at University of Genova on December 2019. Taking advantage of the fortieth anniversay of The Postmodern Condition by J... .... Learn More -
‘The poem of the understanding is philosophy’: Novalis and the art of self-criticism [Paperback]
Fernando Manuel Ferreira Silva (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773969
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Objectivities
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At the onset of his philosophical production, in the fall of 1795, the poet Novalis wrote a long series of fragmentary annotations posthumously entitled Fichte-Studien. A range of important themes are dealt with, all of them dealing with Fichte’s ... .... Learn More -
In Reality: Bergson Beyond Duration [Paperback]
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Author); Michel Dalissier (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869774010
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
Bergson is rightly considered the philosopher of duration. Has this theory, however, been sufficiently elucidated? Is there a domain, aside from life itself, to which the characteristics of duration can be meaningfully ascribed? Why, in his thesis... .... Learn More -
Cosmopolitanism as an Answer: Kant’s Philosophy of History [Paperback]
Sandra Zákutná (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869770883
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The book focuses on Kant’s philosophy of history as a part of his practical philosophy. It deals with Kant’s interpretation of history that leads to political issues and introduces his project of cosmopolitanism as the culmination of his philosoph... .... Learn More -
The Creation of Digital Materiality: A Phenomenological Investigation of Augmented Reality and its Effects on Society [Paperback]
Liberati Nicola (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869772795
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
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The book aims to analyze how Augmented Reality is perceived by human beings and its effects on us and our society following a phenomenological approach. Augmented Reality has been developed to “merge” the digital and the real world. In order to ac... .... Learn More -
Wittgenstein and Marx: Language, Mind and Society [Paperback]
Felice Cimatti (Editor); Christoph Demmerling (Editor); Pietro Garofalo (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869773808
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
The volume tries to offer a comparison between two philosophers who belong to two different philosophical traditions and who have thus been rarely discussed together: Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Despite these thinkers’ many distinctions, th... .... Learn More
