Mimesis International: 57 books
The Line of Arch
Intercultural Issues between Aesthetics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The essays that compose this book turn around aesthetic and ethical questions, intertwining the two dimensions. They are intended to elaborate an interculturalphilosophy: without idealizing any single way of thinking or any tradition, without idolizing any lazy relativism, the author wants to show...
by Esterino Adami, Francesca Bellino, Alessandro Mengozzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections....
The Sensible Invisible
Itineraries in Aesthetic Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The itineraries traced by this book investigate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience. This latter is here understood as the primary experience through which our whole existence as human beings is endowed with the world and can manifest itself. Readers will find two different...
The West Removed
Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-History of Our Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose several myths we’ve become accustomed to taking for granted in the West. It posits that exploration of these myths is crucial to understanding...
The Gift in the Heart of Language
The Maternal Source of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Genevieve Vaughan offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on mother-child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology.This view justifies a relational epistemology that informs the material gift economy as well as the structure...
by Giuliano Torrengo
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
According to both ordinary and scientifi c thought, two objects can enter into relation not only simultanously, but also at different times, namely cross-temporally. For instance, we understand comparisons between entities as they are at different times, such as when we say that John is now taller...
Separate Humans
Anthropology, Ontology, Existence
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book is a theoretical essay that lays foundations on which to build an anthropology directly focusing on human units. In the first chapter, the author attempts to show that the evolutionary specificity of humans constitutes an argument in favour of this perspective. The consciousness of existing...
Atmosphere/Atmospheres
Testing a new paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
What is an “Atmosphere”? As part of the book series “Atmospheric Spaces”, this volume analyses a new phenomenological and aesthetic paradigm based on the notion of the “Atmosphere”, conceived as a feeling spread out into the external space rather than as a private mood. The idea of “Atmosphere”...
Beyond anthropocentrism
Thoughts for a post-human philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries-long separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings – what Marchesini calls “Epiphany”...
The Snowy Snap
The Story of Chaturman Rai, Himalayan Folk-photographer and Film-maker
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In a remote village of eastern Nepal, lacking electricity and any other facilities, Chaturman, a farmer belonging to the Kulung Rai ethnic group, has for many years cultivated an original passion: photography.Chaturman fell in love with this art in his youth, as a result of a fortuitous encounter...
Peter Eisenman
In dialogue with architects and philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Peter Eisenman discusses with architects and philosophers: Jörg H. Gleiter (Germany), Kim Förster (Switzerland), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Emmanuel Petit (USA), Mario Carpo (USA), Sarah M. Whiting (USA), Manuel Orazi (Italy), John McMorrough (USA), Gabriele Mastrigli (Italy), Panayotis Pangalos...
by Nicola Masciandaro
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
“For the will desires not to be dark, and this very desire causes the darkness” (Jacob Boehme). Moving through the fundamental question of this paradox, this book offers a constellation of theoretical and critical essays that shed light on the darkness of the will: its obscurity to itself. Through...
by Leonardo Vittorio Arena
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
What remains of philosophy, once that theories and opinions have been deleted? Perhaps there is only nudity, which is to be fathomed by the adequate tools, such as, dream and insight. In this book the speculative philosophy of the author is expounded, where he tries to incorporate nihilism in a fresh positive view.
Performative Citzenship
Public art, urban design, and political participation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The essays collected in this book adopt different disciplinary approaches to point out the forms of citizens’ participation developed in the field of contemporary public art and urban design. From Sardinia to Queensland, New York to Bologna, Hasselt and Genk to L’Aquila, Rio de Janeiro to Utrecht,...