Luca: 296 books

Cover of Desire, History, State and the Destiny of Man in Hegel
by Luca Luchesini
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

The book covers mostly the anthropological and political side of Hegel thought, as contained and explained in the lessons around the “Phenomenology of Spirit” held by Alexandre Kojeve in the 1930s at the “Ecole de Hautes Etudes” in Paris. The course gives a lot of background for granted, namely...
Cover of Power, Crowds, Violence and Desire in Elias Canetti and Rene Girard
by Luca Luchesini
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

I wrote this short essay with a twofold aim: the first is to nail down the key ideas about the origin of power and the behavior of human crowds as explained by Elias Canetti in his monumental work “Crowds and Power” that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. The second is to try to connect...
Cover of Desire and the West: Market, State and the Containment of Armageddon
by Luca Luchesini
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

What has given the West its supremacy over other civilizations in the last few centuries? And why the main cultures that compose it are undergoing a seemingly endless process of calling to responsibility and self-blaming for all the inequalities and problems that plague the world? At the same time...
Cover of The Righteously Mimetic Mind
by Luca Luchesini
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

This essay connects the dots between “The Righteous Mind”, the recent success of Jonathan Haidt about the evolutionary foundations of morality and mimetic theory developed by Rene Girard around the key concepts of imitative desire and scapegoating. The two authors come from very different backgrounds...
Cover of Due uccelli

Due uccelli

Capitoli di un'esposizione

by Luca Scarano
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2014

Mi sono sempre piaciuti i dipinti di Salvador Dalì. Un quadro non è una mera rappresentazione, ma un dinamico viaggio emozionale di cui nulla si può programmare. Pensa, ad esempio, alla Tentazione di S. Antonio! Viaggio per l’artista che lo crea, viaggio per l’osservatore che lo contempla....
Cover of Napoli Occulta
by Luca Montemagno, Pietro Perrino, Fiorenzo Foglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Napoli è, semplicemente, la città italiana più ricca di esoterismo, leggende, misteri, e queste storie e segreti si rimandano l’un l’altro in una ragnatela di citazioni e riferimenti che avviluppa la città in una rete sottile, ma visibile a chi ha occhi per vedere, e cuore per credere. Chi...
Cover of The Perfect Family
by Luca Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013

Aurelia's relationships have always ended badly, so far. When a friend of hers gives her an unusual advice, she decides to follow it and finds the man of her dreams: a perfect husband and a wonderful father. But perfection does not belong to human males...
Cover of Global Labor Mobility is Brakeless: Jump on it or Get Run Over. How Soft Skills put you in control.
by Luca Mastella
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Does your country offer you little to no chance for success?Pack up your life and build your own future. Soon a colossal change in global labor mobility will take place. We will all benefit.If you aren’t one of the few overpaid and qualified expats, you are one of us: a migrant. Uncertainty...
Cover of Rival Brothers: A Mimetic View of East West Relations
by Luca Luchesini
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013

A personal view of East-West relationship built from real life experience and filtered via the interpretation tools of Mimetic theory of Rene Girard
Cover of La Niania (Illustré)
by Henry Gréville
Language: French
Release Date: May 12, 2015

Une histoire d'amour au temps des bals en Russie. Voulez-vous vivre plein d'émotions ? Vous serez servis à souhait !  Vous nous retrouvez sur www.livresenligne.ca
Cover of Vorrei potessi vedermi ora
by Yuzuru (armando De Luca)
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2016

Avete presente la sensazione di quando si resta fuori casa sotto la pioggia senza un riparo ? Avete presente la sensazione di quando si perde qualcosa di caro ? Avete presente quando, dopo aver messo il cuore e l’anima per una persona questa decide di scomparire per sempre dalla vostra vita senza...
Cover of An E-book About Fallacies of Causation
by Luca Notini
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

This short e-book consists of an attempt to describe fallacies of causation. It discusses five specific fallacies of causation. It has been written to be something of an introductory text that is both accessible and non-intimidating.
Cover of Accesso negato
by Luca Pinotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Internet, il collante tecnologico della civiltà occidentale, è minacciato da un'improvvisa sequenza di guasti. Un incedente o un attacco informatico? Tre gruppi di esperti, dall'Italia, dall'Irlanda e dagli Stati uniti, seguono, a ritroso, le tracce dei blocchi nel tentativo di individuarne la causa....
Cover of Metafrenia

Metafrenia

Inganno dentro o fuori di te

by Luca Barozzi
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2019

Immaginate di svegliarvi una mattina senza più avere memoria di nulla. La città ha l'aria di essere la stessa nella quale avete sempre vissuto. Eppure, non lo è realmente: è piuttosto una copia perfetta di quella originale. Le persone che incontrerete vi saranno tutte sconosciute perché non sono...
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