In this book, Kurt Koffka reformulates the basic question of perception. In the past it had often been assumed that there was really no need […]
Selected writings
The present volume contains a selection of the scholarly work of one of Europe’s most prominent representatives of modern, transdisciplinary Oriental studies: Bert Georg Fragner. […]
Heliacal Phenomena. An Astronomical Introduction for Humanists
Heliacal Phenomena is a parallel to the author’s Eclipses, being another astronomical introduction for Humanists. The aim is that of providing Humanists with a general […]
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 […]
Time without Becoming
Time without Becoming is the text of a lecture Quentin Meillassoux gave at the Middlesex University in May 2008. He makes a summary of the […]
A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy
This book reports the most famous dispute between the Church and the State over the presence of paintings, mosaics, and statues in churches, in the […]
Yaghnobi Studies I. Papers from the Italian Missions in Tajikistan
The new publication series, opened by the present volume, has the ambition to fill a gap in the research landscape in the field of Asian […]
The Oriental Cults in Roman Britain
What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed […]
Cinema and Art as Archive
As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the contemporary discursive practices in cinema and art develops in the semantic openendedness of the term, in the repositioning of the idea of archive.