Mimesis International

Mimesis International was launched at the end of 2013 on the initiative of Mimesis Group, which includes Éditions Mimésis and Mimesis Edizioni. With a catalogue of 4,000 book titles, Mimesis Edizioni is one of the leading Italian publishing houses in the humanities. Their support for free thinking led them to open towards different and merging research fields in the human sciences while maintaining a keen interest in philosophy. As an academic publishing company, they work in synergy and close collaboration with several European universities and cultural centres. In this European and cosmopolitan spirit, they publish their texts in English and, as in the case of scientific journals, they also feature multilingual contributions.

The Compass and the Couch Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9788869770852
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2018
Series: Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Description:
What is the connection between a compass and a couch? It is the meeting of a mechanical gadget used for geographical orientation on the planet, together with another artifact, one of furniture, which has become the icon of the psychoanalytic practice. Both objects allow us to orient ourselves in uncertainty and in darkness with regard to our own subjective, intimate or physical position.
How far Should Tolerance go? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788869771590
Pub Date: 25 Nov 2018
Series: Politics
Description:
What are the limits of tolerance in constitutional or liberal democracies today? This is a crucial question, for if there were no limits to tolerance, it would ultimately destroy itself by accepting the intolerable. The concept of tolerance has to be assessed from a political point of view, thus questioning to what extent its potential achievement does not suppose any moral mutation in humanity.
Knowledge and Arts on the Move Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9788869771323
Pub Date: 25 Nov 2018
Series: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Description:
East and West have long stood as towering edifices dividing history and the world into separate spheres. In fact, the two poles have not only shared a multitude of connections over the centuries, they have also played essential roles in shaping the identities of their oppositional others. Cultural exchange, mutual imaginings, and other forms of interaction have contributed to both the construction of an exotic other and a framing and definition of the self.
Sociological Imagination Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9788869771521
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Sociology
Description:
How can we restore fundamental values on a political and cultural level? Taking this question as a starting point, the book identifies the notion of sociological imagination as a suitable method to address the widespread disorientation within the human and social sciences. In particular, the three essays included in this volume focus on the role of sociology as a tool to achieve a constructive representation of reality.
On the Darkness of the Will Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9788869771569
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Philosophy
Illustrations: 9
Description:
"For the will desires not to be dark, and this very desire causes the darkness” (Jacob Boehme). Moving through the fundamental question of this paradox, this book offers a constellation of theoretical and critical essays that shed light on the darkness of the will: its obscurity to itself. Through in-depth analysis of medieval and modern sources - Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Dante, Meister Eckhart, Chaucer, Nietzsche, Cioran, Meher Baba - this volume interrogates the nature and meaning of the will, along seven modes: spontaneity, potentiality, sorrow, matter, vision, eros, and sacrifice.
Nation, Community, Self Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9788869771347
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Literature
Description:
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure.
Derrida-Levinas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9788869771194
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
Drawing on the relationship between Derrida and Levinas and on the unresolved tension between their philosophical corpuses, this book aims to offer new possible interpretations on the future of democracy. What philosophical and political ideals can emerge from a parallel reading of these two acclaimed thinkers, and from their ‘philosophical alliance’? This volume attempts to re-imagine and to re-engage the realm of politics, by offering new perspectives on the multiple crises that traverse the contemporary age.
E Porno, tem porno? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9788869770234
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Description:
E Pornô, tem pornô? represents a panorama of both Brazilian Porn Industry and studies. From the early Pornochanchadas’ productions – that were more erotical than explicitly pornographical, playing with a highly sexualized culture and flair for the sarcastical and comical – to the contemporary ambience of the netporn; with its amateur performanes and selfpornifications.
Democracy And Truth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9788869771255
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The book explores the latest debates in the field of social epistemology, concerning epistemic justification of democracy. On the one hand, we find those who support a standard approach, assuming that democratic legitimacy must be grounded on the production of epistemically high-quality decisions (true, truth-sensitive, truth-conductive, correct, justified, rational, epistemically responsible and so on). On the other hand, there are those who don’t deem epistemic justification as either necessary or conducive to democratic legitimacy, and those who accept the necessity of the epistemic justification of democracy while rejecting its reduction to the production of true or justified decisions.
Codicological and Orthographical Analysis of Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā MS. 1665 H 43 Biblioteca Ambrosiana Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 75
ISBN: 9788869771583
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Abraxas / Essays
Illustrations: 30
Description:
During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in order to provide some elementary codicological data. This monograph describes the Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā contained in manuscript MS.1665 (H 43) and other copies of the same text preserved in some Western European libraries, with regard to their historical, linguistic, artistic and bibliographic aspects.
Beyond Anthropocentrims Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 126
ISBN: 9788869771545
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries of separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings – what Marchesini calls “Epiphany” – and how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates.
Concerning Astonishing Atmospheres Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9788869771033
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2018
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Description:
Atmospheres are omnipresent and they are frequently used in everyday language. Yet, when do we perceive atmospheres and how can we explore them? The concept of atmosphere extends aesthetics to aisthesis and comprehends perception as a relation bound to the present and with regard to others.
Atmosphere/Atmospheres Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9788869771231
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2018
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Description:
What is an “Atmosphere”? As part of the book series “Atmospheric Spaces”, this volume analyses a new phenomenological and aesthetic paradigm based on the notion of the "Atmosphere", conceived as a feeling spread out into the external space rather than asa private mood. The idea of "Atmosphere" is here explored from different perspectives and disciplines, in the context of a full valorization of the so-called “affective turn” in Humanities.
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 118
ISBN: 9788869771378
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2018
Series: Literature
Description:
The Odyssey is rightly celebrated as a story that goes far beyond the scope of epic poetry. It is an open window to an entire era and its social systems as well as its theological, cultural, economic and political structures, while running simultaneously in the register of the earthly and of the divine. Within The Odyssey, the episode of the Sirens stands out as an exceptionally evocative example of this kind of achievement.
Epicurus’s Pharmacy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 163
ISBN: 9788869771460
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
Since antiquity, Epicurus’ thought has been compared to a powerful drug able to cure the pains of the soul that have always tormentedman preventing him from living a peaceful existence: but we know that the Greek term pharmakon can be interpreted in its two opposite meanings of medicine and poison; and indeed, the same duplicity animates Epicurus’ philosophy which, by acting as a medicine for the human soul, also has the effect of a poison, destroying from within, philosophy traditionally conceived as a disinterested contemplation of truth. The philosophical revolution undertaken by Epicurus as a fracture with respect to all the previous tradition, from Thales to Aristotle, coincides with an inversion of the traditional relation between man and cosmos, between theory and practice: the classic question “what is reality made of?” is replaced by the Epicurean question that is at the basis of his philosophical anthropocentrism: “how must reality be made and how should one understand it in order to be happy?
Rethinking the Nietzschean Concept of Untimely Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9788869771514
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
After the publication of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen) the term 'Untimely' was introduced widely in philosophical studies, not merely in Nietzschean contexts. Although this concept has become very popular, it is surprising that it has been neglected by critical studies. Indeed, there are only a few publications that fully present the issue of 'Untimely' on the international scene.