Kamils is a child like any other: he is cheerful, lively and loves making stupid jokes. So what makes him special? He has been blind […]
Giovanni Hautmann and the Passion of Thought
Giovanni Hautmann (Florence, 1927-2017) was president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and trained generations of analysts. Together with numerous articles, he has published some fundamental […]
The Atmospheric “We”. Moods and Collective Feelings
What contribution can the atmospherological approach make to the debate on collective feelings? In answering this question, the book provides a brief introduction to the […]
Performance/Art. The Venetian Lectures
Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies […]
Cinéma&Cie 35: Mediatic Handology: Shaping Images, Interacting, Magicking
Digital culture, taken etymologically, means a culture of the fingers (from the Latin digitus). Although our contemporary times are still envisioned through the lens of […]
The “aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory. Fifty Years Later
If 2019 was an “Adornian year” because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has […]
Political Torture in the Twentieth Century
Unanimously banned and condemned, torture has been used in many countries throughout the 20th century. Ruxandra Cesereanu’s essay aims to deepen this subject, showing the […]
Imaginaries in Geometry
This is the first complete English translation of Pavel Florensky’s original and ambitious attempt to arrive at a geometric representation of imaginary numbers, in a […]
Phenomenology of Wind and Atmosphere
Tadashi Ogawa brings together the ancient East Asian idea of ki (気) and standpoints of European philosophy. Wind, atmosphere and breathing are formless, invisible and […]