Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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Beyond Quarantine: How Culture Heals the Planet [Paperback]
Annamaria Esposito (Editor); Maria Cristina Vannini (Editor)
£12.99ISBN: 9788869773891
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
How does culture contribute to healing our planet? Is there anything we should learn from the pandemic? The book answers these questions, exploring the contribution of culture to the protection of the planet, comparing the Italian and the Brazilia... .... Learn More -
PPPP: Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher [Paperback]
Giovanbattista Tusa (Editor); Toni Hildebrandt (Editor)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773921
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, his oeuvre might best be described as “une pensée”, as a meandering thought-provoking thought, to quote Jean-Luc Godard’s exceptional comment on Pasolini in Histoire(s) du cinéma. Pasolin... .... Learn More -
Cosmopolitanism as an Answer: Kant’s Philosophy of History [Paperback]
Sandra Zákutná (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869770883
Published by : Mimesis International
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Technological Destinies of the Imagination [Paperback]
Pietro Montani (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869773778
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Aesthetics
The tradition of Kant's critical philosophy developed the concept of imagination in a rigorous and productive way. It also allows us to develop an aesthetic approach suitable to explaining and understanding the relationship between sensitivity and... .... 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 -
Concrescence and Transition: Whitehead and the Process of Subjectivation [Paperback]
Luca Vanzago (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9788869773822
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
The book deals with the complex notion of process worked out by Alfred N. Whitehead, a notion that includes his deep revision of the concepts of time and space. Throughout his whole career, Whitehead emphasized the importance of process for the ac... .... Learn More -
Where Thought Hesitates: Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind [Paperback]
Tiziano Possamai (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773884
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
In 1956, together with his research group, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson published a theory that was to revolutionize the way of conceiving mental illness. Over the years, the central concept of this theory, the double bind, proved effective ... .... Learn More -
What we should learn from artists: Nietzsche's metaphysics of illusion [Paperback]
Silvia Capodivacca (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9788869774089
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
What can we learn from the way artists live and operate in the world? This is one of the questions that Nietzsche asks himself throughout the course of his work, although it is not one for which he is most famous. In its answer, the question funct... .... Learn More -
The Essence of Greek Education since Antiquity: Plato, Photios the Great and Nicodemos the Athonite [Hardback]
Dimitri Kepreotes (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781463244538
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
Volume: 21
This book attempts to answer the question: what are the essential features of Greek education? In so doing, it explores the extent to which the educational ideals and practices of paideia have displayed continuity from classical Athens until moder... .... Learn More -
Gnostic Jihadism: A Philosophical Inquiry into Radical Politics [Paperback]
Giacomo Maria Arrigo (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9788869773044
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
Revolutionary Gnosticism is a movement common to a great deal of modern and contemporary revolutionary phenomena such as Nazism, Bolshevism and Jacobinism. However no one has studied Salafi- Jihadism yet, the latest existing revolutionary ideology... .... Learn More
