One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, his oeuvre might best be described as “une pensé e”, as a meandering thought-provoking thought, […]
Category: Philosophy
Mimesis International brings together a selection of books addressing a range of fundamental ideas within the latest, global philosophical debates. Presenting well known thinkers together with emerging voices, our books are written in a clear and concise way, making them suitable both for academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Object Oriented Dialectics. Hegel. Heidegger. Harman
In this relatively short book, Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier “dialectic” in both Martin Heidegger and Graham Harman’s work, arguing […]
Where Thought Hesitates. Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind
In 1956, together with his research group, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson published a theory that was to revolutionize the way of conceiving mental illness. Over […]
Wittgenstein and Marx. Language, Mind and Society
The volume tries to offer a comparison between two philosophers who belong to two different philosophical traditions and who have thus been rarely discussed together: […]
Beyond Quarantine. How Culture Heals the Planet
How does culture contribute to healing our planet? Is there anything we should learn from the pandemic? The book answers these questions, exploring the contribution […]
Concrescence and Transition. Whitehead and the Process of Subjectivation
The book deals with the complex notion of process worked out by Alfred N. Whitehead, a notion that includes his deep revision of the concepts […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gnostic Jihadism. A Philosophical Inquiry into Radical Politics
This book explores the radical Islamist mindset by adopting the philosophical category of revolutionary Gnosticism. Already used for the study of other revolutionary phenomena such […]