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.

Time Without Becoming Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9788857523866
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
To use Alan Badiou's words, "It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." The present book, Time Without Becoming, is the text of a conference that Meillassoux gave at Middlesex University in London in May 2008. Following his seminal After Finitude, Meillassoux proceeds here to further explore his notion of absolute contingency, which is able to produce and destroy, without a reason, any becoming.
Dislocated Subject Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9788869771071
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2018
Series: Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Description:
“The time is out of joint”. This famous line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet helps to describe the impression of de-centering, of deconstruction, which we currently live and experience. This phenomenon is caused by various factors and while it is happening worldwide, partly as a result of globalization, it is perceived in different ways in the various cultures and countries in the world.
From Vanitas to Veritas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9788869771057
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2018
Series: Literature
Description:
An overview of the complex world of John Donne's poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne's Metempsychosis and his Anniversaries are analysed from both a literary and philosophical/theological perspective, in the context of the rising new science.
Tracing the Path of Giambattista Vico's Universal Right Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9788869771088
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
This volume offers a close analysis and textual study of Vico’s complex intellectual trajectory before the Scienze Nuove. Particular attention is devoted to the three books of Diritto Universale, as they mark a significant step in the redefinition of the relationship between metaphysics and philosophical questions of law. In Vico, we witness the connection – rather than the juxtaposition – between natural and historic law, and a new notion of the natural right of people that theorizes the historic right of nations.
Body Images In The 
Post-Cinematic Scenario Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
ISBN: 9788869771095
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Series: Cinema
Description:
What is the current status of the human body in the digital era? Taking this question as a starting point, the book explores how our perception of the body has been modified by the advent of new media (videogames, transmedia platforms, ARGs), by the rise of recent devices such as wearable technologies,Virtual Reality, cosmetic surgery and by the creation of different narratives such as science-fictions, and TV series. Which kind of identities emerge within this context?
Cinéma & Cie 
Vol. XVII, No. 28, Spring 2017 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869771453
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Description:
Who is the Subaltern in the current global frame? Has neoliberalism changed the experience of subalternity? How do subalterns write history and what kind of history is written about subalternity?
Unlimit Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869771408
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
Many voices today call for a profound rethinking of European identity. If we wish to answer their call, however, it is necessary to start with a reconsideration of the notion of boundaries, particularly as they are at work in the Mediterranean region. The knowledge and cultural values of the Mediterranean may be the driving force able to overcome the impasse from which Europe seems unable to free itself.
Reducing Boundaries Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9788869771187
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Series: Architecture
Description:
Reducing Boundaries offers a new perspective on an often under researched topic: what is the upper and middle classes perception of their own security? While human sciences have mainly focused on poor and low-middle classes evicted from urban space, Reducing Boundaries explores the strategies that the most privileged classes enact in order to preserved their own (real or perceived) security. In the context of an interdisciplinary framework of analysis and through a series of case studies (from Porto Alegre, to Brussels, to Venice), class-specific security measures and policies are considered both in themselves, and in terms of their impact of the urban fabric of cities and on the lives of the different social groups involved.
Contemporary Women's Cinema, Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9788869770999
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Illustrations: 40-50
Description:
The anthology explores contemporary women’s cinema in relation to issues related to gender and globalization. The anthology gathers scholars from several parts of the world – from Italy, the USA, Turkey, Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany and Canada. Such a global perspective is mirrored in the book’s content: the essays consider women’s production in the domain of cinema by looking at various films and filmmakers around the globe and by tackling the relation between national, transnational and global contexts in film production.
Philosophy and Hope Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 76
ISBN: 9788869770975
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2017
Description:
“It will then be clear that the world has long possessed the dream of a thing of which it only needs to possess the consciousness in order really to possess it.” Karl Marx One of the greatest unsolved issues that Karl Marx bequeathed to his interpreters concerns the legitimacy of practical and theoretical hope, both in the frame of his thought and in the wider horizon of philosophy. The entire Marxian work seems to be enigmatically suspended between the opposite dimensions of science and hope.
Angels and Monsters in the House Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9788869771002
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2017
Description:
The three essays that comprise this volume explore literary representations of the ‘True Womanhood’ ideology, a narrative through which nineteenth-century women could invest their existence and their role in the world with meaning and purpose. In Victorian America, middle-to-upper-middle-class women were not admitted to centers of public power. Being relegated to the private sphere, i.
Three Paradoxes of Personhood Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788869771040
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2017
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The starting point of Joseph Margolis’ last philosophical effort is represented by the problem of the human “gap” in animal continuity: “There appear to be no comparable variants of animal evolution [..
Other Worlds and the Narrative Construction of Otherness Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9788869770951
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2017
Series: Literature
Illustrations: 5 ILLUSTRATIONS B/W + 2 COLOURS
Description:
The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections. The first section (Other spaces, new worlds) deals with Hindi and Arabic Science Fiction.
Word and Image in Literature and the Visual Art Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 402
ISBN: 9788869770838
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2017
Series: Language & Literature
Description:
The publication will investigate the multiple interactions between the written word and images. Literary works (drama, fiction, poetry, essays), films, photography and the fine arts will be studied with a comparative approach. The interrelationship between word and image will also be analysed according to the various types of occurrences: ekphrasis (narrative description of artistic objects); imagology (stereotypical images, orientalism, exoticism); cultural, rhetorical and symbolic constructs (Shakespearian imagery); filmic, digital or televised transpositions and adaptations of literary works; intermediality (mixed media works).
Situations and Atmospheres in Organizations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9788869770814
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2017
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Description:
Social life in organizations significantly relies on situations and atmospheres. Despite the high practical relevance, so far no attempts have been made to theoretically capture situations and atmospheres in organizations in a systematic manner. Aside from the difficulty of locating the situation or atmosphere within a dichotomy of subject and object, this seems mainly due to the complex interweaving of situations and atmospheres that is constitutive of organizations.
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal Vol. XVI, no. 26/27, Spring/Fall 2016 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9788869770555
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2017
Illustrations: 10 illustrations
Description:
This special issue of Cinéma& Cie focuses the topic of post-cinema taking for granted the background of this notion that animated the recent debate revolving around it. The aim of the volume is thus rather to ask which ontologies, if any can, do the moving image justice in a situation in which the cinema is merely one of many configurations of film, which other theoretical frameworks may be appropriate and which modes of temporality, and of historiography and analysis can account for the steady transformation of film’s varying configurations. While the most productive accounts of post-cinema rarely trace this filiation in an explicit fashion, the label is closely related to the concept of post-media as developed by Félix Guattari in the early 1990s, later adapted into art, media theory, new and screen media.