Mimesis International - Böcker

Increased migration is a global phenomenon associated with regional instabilities and insecurities, including long-term push factors and other elements related to processes of globalization that influence economics (the gap between the global Sout...

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The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of writings on queer theories and practices. Drawing together established and emerging scholars in the field, this volume offers a broad, transdisciplinary and international approach to queer studies. ...

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The historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, and it is now published in English and in It...

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This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literary studies and comparing works by Iain Sinclair and Will Self. Both indebted to the tradition of psychogeography, these two authors consider the act...

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This issue of Cirpit Review, inaugurating a new time for the journal, features a collection of essays and contributions variously inspired by the thought of Raion Panikkar. Certainly, he is one of the protagonists of the intercultural transformati...

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The historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, and it is now published in English and in It...

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This issue of Cirpit Review gathers together several contributions on the theme of interculturalism, written by Italian and international scholars specialised in intercultural philosophy and inter-religious dialogue. Among them are Giacomo Marrama...

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All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes on Pindaric models are transformed in the making...

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As Jacques Derrida stated in Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear than the word archive. Nevertheless, it is precisely within the semantic openendedness of this notion that contemporary discursive practices of cinema and art have ...

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The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, living and moving, largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos. The first par...

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This issue contains the proceedings of the Symposium on Dialogical Dialogue and Raimon Panikkar, held in Baltimore in November 2013. It consisted of two separate events, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religi...

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To use Alan Badiou's words, "It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." The present book, Time Without Becoming, is the text of a conference that Meillassoux gave at...

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In this book, Kurt Koffka reformulates the basic question of perception. In the past it had often been assumed that there was really no need to explain the features of veridical perception. Here Koffka rejects this approach: regardless of the veri...

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This book is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. Starting from his studies of the Melanesian society on the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea, Malinowski describes and examines the ways in which Trobriand Islanders structure and...

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This book reports the most famous dispute between the Church and the State over the presence of paintings, mosaics, and statues in churches, in the period from 717 to 843. In no other book was the Iconoclastic Controversy described in a more detai...

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What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed to the triumph of Christianity? This problem, which is fundamental to the history...

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The book arises to investigate the prospect of painting in the current context, choosing a philosophical approach careful to delineate mechanisms and capabilities in relation to the history of painting, to its actuality and difference, also in rel...

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This book offers the reader a tool to address the largely still uncharted territory of contemporary migration literature. In addition to presenting and commenting on the production of the prolific writer Helen Barolini, author Margherita Ganeri nu...

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Mirio Cosottini dedicates his book "Playing with silence" to everyone who loves silence and its multiple facets. In this volume, he advances a series of questions and exercises through which to set off on a path of enquiry into silence, ...

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This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style...

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The itineraries suggested in this book interrogate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience, understood as the primary experience, in which our complexity as human beings is invested by the world and manifests itself. Readers...

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This historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, and it is now published in English and in I...

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This work integrates songwriting and academic research to explore the current challenges in managing (tourism) places. The emotional power of music propels a critical investigation into contemporary seaside, urban and rural destinations, and the a...

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Among the various issues debated in philosophy today, this book focuses on one which is unquestionably central: can we claim to have any regulated procedure that uses common norms to resolve human disagreements? Although this is a question with pr...

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David Sylvian may be seen as a philosopher, accordingly to the postmodern spirit, who invalidates identity, while preserving it at the level of non-sound, in a troubled relationship between the ego and the others. His most recent songs have been a...

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Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory is a collaborative collection of writings in black metal theory (BMT), an amorphous metallectual movement initiated in 2009 with the symposium Hideous Gnosis. This volume gathers together previously published and ...

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In 1963, Hanna Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. This volume provoked a strong reaction throughout the Jewish community. The accusations that would arise involved Arendts portrayal of Eichmann, her analysis ...

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Emanuele Severino, one of the leading thinkers on contemporaneity, responds here to some of the most profound and essential questions raised by philosophy. His reflections are collected in this book, for the first time translated in English. Groun...

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Radical Transitivity. The author offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on the mother-child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology. This view justifies a relational ep...

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