The enigma of masochism which renders impossible a limit between good and evil, pain and pleasure, or even life and death pushes philosophical thinking towards […]
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.
In Reality. Bergson Beyond Duration
Bergson is rightly considered the philosopher of duration. Has this theory, however, been sufficiently elucidated? Is there not a domain, aside from life itself, to […]
Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic
In the year 2020, what we used to think that our habits have been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all of […]
The Future of the Post. New Insights in the Postmodern Debate
This book collects the proceedings of the International conference The Postmodern Condition: Forty Years Later held at University of Genova on December 2019. The conference […]
What We Should Learn From Artists. Nietzsche’s Metaphysics Of Illusion
What can we learn from the way artists live and operate in the world? This is one of the questions that Nietzsche asks himself throughout […]
PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher
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, […]
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: […]