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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]