In this relatively short book, Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier “dialectic” in both Martin Heidegger and Graham Harman’s work, arguing […]
Secret Stories on the Silk Road. Symbols, Architectures and Myths between Italy, the Middle East and China
“This book is a journey, of course, but the path does not go in one direction. We could imagine its content as a great caravan […]
Yonaoshi. Visions of a Better World
Yonaoshi (世直し、よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-19th century and signified the resto- […]
Revolutionary Times. A Comparative View of the Long 1960s in Japan and Italy
The “long 1960s”, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by its social and political upheavals and international scope […]
Where Thought Hesitates. Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind
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 […]
Sacred Eroticism. Tantra and Eros in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA)
Sacred eroticism has been an important if neglected feature of Western esotericism from the early modern era down to the present day. Founded in Romania, […]
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: […]
Symbols and Myths in Liberal Democratic Political Systems. Essays on Political Theory
The volume consists of a collection of fifteen contributions on Political Theory, whose focus intersects different topics and perspectives. More specifically, a series of philosophical, […]
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 […]