Mimesis

The contagious joy of a party, the solemn silence in a church, the gloomy atmosphere of endless rows of identical houses in an ugly city. Through a criticism of the reification and psychologization...

What kind of mood does a late-night walk in a city evoke? Is there a distinct ambiance of the desert or the city? How can we describe the uncanny feeling that our own home sometimes gives us? And...

An atmosphere bears an effect wherever it is perceptible by human beings, which includes situations in educational institutions. Due to their efficacious potential, they can exude an influence that...

Beyond the Bible, Beyond the West is a research in ontological hermeneutics: it is critical of "textual positivism" - which makes the univocity and clarity of a text the main goal of its task - and...

The book is composed of 21 chapters. Each of them has its own integrity, and it can be read independently of the others. Thus, the reader should not expect a progressive unfolding of the content,...

"Disciplining the Imagination" examines the relationship between Newtonianism and prose narrative in eighteenth century Britain. The main argument made in this book is that writers like Daniel Defoe,...

Unlike in the United Kingdom and France, where fashion during the Second World War is extensively debated, in Italy it is an under researched topic, and the behind-the-scenes history of the fashion...

In this eco-philosophical epistolary dialogue, the two authors engage in a captivating dialogue about the pre-civilisation foundations of our culture, about processes of alienation and about how we...

This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the 17th to the 20th. These contributions were presented and debated at ICHoLS XV (Milan,...

Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality offers a narrative model that combines live-action 360 video with an interactive fiction structure to create immersive and interactive narrative...

The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring...

What do we mean by moral freedom? What are the necessary conditions required for it? Do the exponential advances and pervasive applications of artificial intelligence (AI) promote it, or do they...

In this work, Hermann Schmitz introduces the main theses of New Phenomenology: subjective facts and affective involvement, the felt body and the primitive present, and pre-personal selfconsciousness...

Offering an overview on the relationships between smell and atmospheres as proposed by philosophy and the humanities, this volume interprets the "olfactive" as a cross-sensory, affective and...

Edited by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda, "Politics, State, Communism" brings together a series of speeches written by ?lvaro Garc?a Linera in a unique political conjuncture: some date back to when he was...

One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, his oeuvre might best be described as "une pens? e", as a meandering thought-provoking thought, to quote Jean-Luc Godard's exceptional...

How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? This is the ambitious question that animates the current volume. The book seeks to formulate these...

The current volume provides an interpretation of American pragmatism according to which pragmatism is not opposed to metaphysics but instead represents a vital, non-dismissive, non-deflationary...

The choice of the United States and its literature limited to just under a century - from 1920 to the present - is anithing but random. The need of a comparison with American mind (to quote Henry...

Radiohead is among the few bands in contemporary popular music that have combined considerable commercial success with widely recognized artistic significance. In an epoch in which reflection on...

Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, if on one side this ongoing revolution keeps providing an incessant stream of novel and previously...

Tuning Architecture with Humans: Neuroscience Applied to Architectural DesignAuthor: Davide RuzzonPublisher: MimesisPublication Date: 45747Number of Pages: 266 pagesBinding: ArchitectureISBN-10:...

Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries - Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy,...