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 […]
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.
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 […]
Troubled Legitimization. Habermas’ Critique of Late Capitalism
The current study takes on the task of focussing on Habermas’ long and productive first phase in the 1960s and 1970s. The book begins with […]
Varieties of Causal Explanation in Medical Contexts
Far from being the sole mode of explaining diseases, explanation in terms of – mostly probabilistic – causes has prompted wide and lively debate. Focusing […]
The Imaginative Mind. Imagination’s Role In Human Cognition And Culture
What is the role of imagination in human cognition and culture? This book explores the hypothesis that such role is larger than we commonly think: […]
Rethinking Moral Responsibility
Should we blame our neighbour for forgetting to water our plants? To what extent are people responsible for the consequences of their actions? When is […]
Thus Replied Zarathustra
Throughout Western universities, ancient Greek philosophy is seen as the oldest tradition of wisdom, yet the Zoroastrian way of life can be traced back to […]
Cinema and Ontology
The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology. This investigation unfolds, on the one hand, through an ontological understanding of […]