Mimesis International imprint: 57 books
Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest
That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well...
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MERLEAU-PONTY ENTRE HIER ET DEMAIN / BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW / TRA IERI E DOMANI
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Merleau-PontyENTRE HIER ET DEMAINBETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROWTRA IERI E DOMANI****dossiers – special sections – dossiersMerleau -Ponty demainMerleau -Ponty TomorrowMerleau -Ponty domaniMerleau -Ponty et la philosophie classique allemandeMerleau -Ponty and Classical German PhilosophyMerleau -Ponty...
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal.
Overlapping Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
For a long time, comparisons of cinema and photography have been predominantly a question of contrast, both of their forms and their ways of seeing. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie reverses the perspective, by addressing some of the fundamental spaces of convergence and coexistence between the two...
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal
Archives in Human Pain. Circulation, Persistence, Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The images of atrocity, either analog or digital, are always the trace of an encounter between the gaze of a photographer or a cameraman and a human being sufferingfrom the painful effects of man-made violence. The archive images resulting from such an encounter raise some inevitable questions: who...
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal
Neurofilmology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and social sciences. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie focuses on major conceptual and epistemological arguments arising from the dialogue between audiovisual studies and neurosciences....
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal.
Overlapping Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
For a long time, comparisons of cinema and photography have been predominantly a question of contrast, both of their forms and their ways of seeing. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie reverses the perspective, by addressing some of the fundamental spaces of convergence and coexistence between...
Paolo Gioli
The Man without a Movie Camera
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In a historical moment when cinema is definitively abandoning analogue production and reception modalities, the cinematographic work of Paolo Gioli occupies an important and meaningful place in the academic and artistic debate related to the present and future position of cinema and media art in the...
by Emanuele Severino
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
“Two souls live within us”: one is nihilism and the other is destiny.In this collection of essays, Emanuele Severino, one of the most important thinkers of contemporary times, illuminates the meaning of these words and engages with the most profound questions of philosophy, as well as the most...
The Thinker and the Specialist
Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
“Attending this trial is somehow, I maintain, an obligation that I have to my past,” writes Hannah Arendt on the eve of the trial of Ex-Lieutenant Colonel of the SS Adolf Eichmann, one of the people most heavily involved in the planning and carrying out of the Holocaust. Originating with Arendt’s...
A Very Seductive Body Politic
Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the ageof Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated...
The Darkness of This Time
Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The present book is a collection of 9 essays, emerging from a long and intense research collaboration among scholars coming from different backgrounds and traditions. As the book’s subtitle suggests, these essays focus on the ethical, religious, and political aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought,...
Europe and Capitalism
Regaining the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The current European Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom.This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political reality. In fact, upon closer and unbiased analysis, Europe appears to be the result of a “passive revolution” (Gramsci) through which the...
by Renata Viti Cavaliere
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
“Birth” could be the main concept of a philosophy of commencement: indeed, it is not only a biological event or an effective metaphor for new beginning, but also the sign that being, knowledge and action, born themselves, have the power to give birth to something. Birth is essentially that which...
Breaking the Spell
Contemporary Realism under Discussion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
It seems that the time has come for philosophy to break the spell of correlationism. But how? The present book gathers essays by philosophers and younger scholars sharing an interest in the recent speculative turn and contemporary forms of realism. They discuss possible strategies to access a subject-independent...