“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 […]
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 […]
A very seductive body politic
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis […]
Europe and capitalism. Regaining the future
The current European Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom. This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political […]
The sound of the North. Norway and the European Jazz Scene
Co-edition with Auditorium With a gentle yet incisive approach, with a warm humour and a deep admiration for the music and musicians and for all […]
Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same – or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the […]
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.