Firenze University Press: 82 books

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a...

Frank Rosengarten’s Through Partisan Eyes is a remarkably powerful antidote to the pervasive view of Italy as a museum. His memoir brings poignantly into relief a vibrant scene of intellectuals (in the capacious definition of the term that encompasses scholars, artists, and many others who help...

During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international appointment for experts of Renaissance culture, this is the first time that characteristic...

This volume is a collection of eight articles by different scholars from Japan, China, and Italy. Although the topics covered belong to different fields, such as literature, history, linguistics and sociology, all of the included works are geographically focused on cultural aspects of East Asia. The...

The Lecture Capitalism is not democratic and democracy not capitalistic. Tensions and opportunities in historical perspective regards the relationship between capitalism and democracy; to discuss whether and in which sense capitalism and democracy are compatible. Whether they reinforce or impede each...

Sottoboschi letterari raccoglie sei saggi su altrettante autrici attive nel periodo che va dall'ultima decade dell'Ottocento alla Grande Guerra: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno. Tramite la metafora del sottobosco, che richiama alcune caratteristiche...

Le riforme introdotte dal legislatore sul voto italiano all'estero hanno segnato un punto di svolta nella politica italiana e in modo particolare nelle comunità degli italiani con la novità della rappresentanza estera. Quale opinione hanno del voto italiano all'estero i connazionali residenti al...

Loosely based on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the play has a Fahrenheit 451 setting. In a world without books or memory appears a common man, the Man in the street, with some heets of writing that he cannot make out. With the help of the narrator, Science, Technology and Nature, and of two actors...

Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) è l'ingegnere italiano più celebre del XX secolo. A partire dal 1952, raggiunto l'apice della propria carriera di progettista e di imprenditore in Italia, Nervi decide di inserirsi nel mondo accademico e professionale degli Stati Uniti. Intraprende così un percorso...

The principal aim of this study is to participate in the current renewed discourse on the meaning of friendship, initiated in 1994 by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida with his Politics of Friendship, by combining the philosophical method of inquiry with the hermeneutical approach to poetic representations...

The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet these topics are less touched on in the tradition of pedagogical research. The...

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany...

The volume shows the morphogenesis and differentiation of the human larynx during the fetal period. This knowledge is relevant to understand laryngeal functions as well as the diffusion of cancer and the therapy of low stage cancer. Through embryological analysis, the anatomical basis of laryngeal...

Organismo politico unico, l'Unione europea ha dato luogo a paradossi e enigmi costituzionali importanti che John Erik Fossum e Agustín José Menéndez analizzano a fondo in questo libro. Essi prendono in considerazione il lungo processo volto a dare una costituzione all'Unione Europea e l'insieme...