“Attending this trial is somehow, I maintain, an obligation that I have to my past,” writes Hannah Arendt on the eve of the trial of […]
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.
The line of the arch
The essays that compose this book turn around aesthetic and ethical questions, intertwining the two dimensions. They are intended to elaborate an intercultural philosophy: without […]
Normativity and praxis
Among the various issues debated in philosophy today, this book focuses on one which is unquestionably central: can we claim to have any regulated procedure […]
Mindsets. Conceiving cognition in nature
What is cognition? What is its place in nature? For about 60 years philosophers and scientists have been engaged in giving a naturalistic dress to the cognitive sciences arguing over the status of mental representations and computational processes.
The gift in the heart of language. The maternal source of meaning
Genevieve Vaughan offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on mother- child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology.
On nudity an introduction to nonsense
What remains of philosophy, once that theories and opinions have been deleted? Perhaps there is only nudity, which is to be fathomed by the adequate […]
Breaking the spell. Contemporary Realism under Discussion
It seems that the time has come for philosophy to break the spell of correlationism. But how? The present book gathers essays by philosophers and […]
The Invention of the Text
The notion of text is perhaps the most used and discussed within social and human sciences. Nevertheless, it is surprisingly one of the worst defined. […]
Time and Cross-Temporal Relations
According to both ordinary and scientifi c thought, two objects can enter into relation not only simultanously, but also at different times, namely cross-temporally. For […]