In 1924, B. Russell claimed the crucial importance of relations to our understanding of many unresolved philosophical problems. Such observation is more than fundamental for […]
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.
Tracing the Path of Giambattista Vico’s Universal Right
This volume offers a close analysis and textual study of Vico’s complex intellectual trajectory before the Scienze Nuove. Particular attention is devoted to the three […]
Three paradoxes of personhood. The venetian lectures
The starting point of Joseph Margolis’ last philosophical effort is represented by the problem of the human “gap” in animal continuity: “There appear to be […]
Challenges to living together. Transculturalism, migration, exploitation for a semioethics of human relations
Extending the gaze to all signs of life, semiotics as global semiotics evidences the condition of interrelatedness and interdependency not only among the sign systems […]
New Perspectives on Realism
With this volume, we present a collection of writings, each offering their own novel perspective regarding the question of realism. Realism has undoubtedly attracted a […]
The Voice of No One. Merleau-Ponty on Nature and Time
The book addresses Merleau-Ponty’s so-called ontology of the flesh, a rather obscure expression that the book explains in depth by drawing from Merleau-Ponty’s lecture courses, […]
Birth
“Birth” could be the main concept of a philosophy of commencement: indeed, it is not only a biological event or an effective metaphor for new […]
Beyond Nihilism. The Knot of Plurality
Nihilism and/or community. The European Question. The gift of the in-common. Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that […]
Limits of Knowledge. The Nineteenth-Century Epistemological Debate and Beyond
Ignorabimus! We will never know! With this statement and his talk on the limits of natural knowledge in 1872, Emil du Bois-Reymond stirred up a […]