The human-animal relationship has always been characterized by a wide net of interactions and exchanges. By providing an overview of the concept of animality – […]
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John R. Lucas Against Mechanism
Can the human mind be properly described in mechanical terms? It is in order to demonstrate that it cannot be that in 1959 John R. […]
The Evil Side of the Web
There are various risks tied to the Web. Toxic evils like cybercrimes, cyberbullying, on-line harassment, aggressive online comments, defamation, hateful speech, plagiarism, etc. are growing among […]
Introduction to Social Innovation
It is commonly shared the idea that social innovation is the creation of social value by solving social problems. Accordingly, social innovation can be deemed […]
Don Giovanni or the Inconvenient. Triptych of Shadow Second Door
Don Giovanni chooses a piazza as a place for a lover’s tryst: a piazza that was once, in other times, a theatre of torture and […]
Italian America. Epos and Storytelling in Helen Barolini
This book offers to the reader a tool to address the still largely uncharted territory of contemporary literature of migration. In addition to presenting and […]
Playing with silence. Introduction to a philosophy of silence
Playing with silence is a book that Mirio Cosottini dedicates to those who love silence and all its aspects. In this volume he proposes a series of questions and exercises in order to initiate an investigative process that sheds light on its many facets as well as on its invariances; that which remains constant under transformation.
Swedish Crime Fiction. The making of Nordic Noir
Why have authors from the safe, social welfare state Sweden captivated the minds of crime fiction readers across the globe? Kerstin Bergman suggests that killer […]
Painting. The Infinite Body
This book aims to investigate the perspective of painting in the current context, choosing a philosophical approach that carefully delineates mechanisms and capabilities in relation […]