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.

A History of Cinema Without Names Volume 2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 274
ISBN: 9788869771101
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Series: Udine/Gorizia Conference Proceedings
Illustrations: 30
Description:
History of Cinema Without Names is an editorial project which gathers research papers presented at Gorizia Conference. It promotes a new research perspective on the notions of film authorship, style, and genre, with the aim of re-articulating their theoretical definition.
Fictional Artworks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9788869770586
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Illustrations: 25 illustrations
Description:
The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, the relationship between text and image, between verbal and visual in modern and contemporary literature. The authors involved study the mutual boundaries between literature and arts from the point of view of aesthetics, visual culture and literary theory, trying to build a map of the notional ekphrasis, a description which constitutes the work of art while telling it.
How to Learn? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869770524
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Description:
How is one to learn in a time of globalization? And in particular: how is one to learn if the research “object” is a non-European culture, such as that of Japan? What are the methodologies appropriate for working in the field of “Nippon/Japan” in a bi-directional approach from West to East and from East to West?
Representations of the Other, and Intercultural Experiences in a Global Perspective (16th-20th Centuries) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 135
ISBN: 9788869770821
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Series: History
Description:
The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, civilizations) has pushed human sciences to examine themselves through an interdisciplinary point of view and to develop new categories in order to define the Other. Since the development of a multicultural approach to otherness was born in Early Modern culture, the book’s main goal is to research such a historical process, beginning from the specific point of view developed by Jesuits between the 17th and 18th centuries. A specific focus will also be devoted to the discussion of today’s intercultural and religious clashes in the Islamic world and in the Far East: in fact, in these contexts, religious movements have given a decisive contribution to the spread of strong paradigms, useful in representing the Other.
Linguistic and Discursive Aspects of Translation Criticism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9788869770777
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Series: Language & Literature
Description:
This study is led by the overarching idea that a precise metalanguage should be required when intending to critically talk about translations as texts. Due to the lack of communication between the translation industry and academic research, on the one hand, the notions heralded by Translation Studies are regarded as “parochial,” “too technical” and “academic” by professionals (a category that includes editors, proof-readers, translation agencies and all the other figures working in the translation industry), who oftentimes prefer to rely exclusively on their own experience; on the other hand, scholars sometimes fail to make their findings accessible to whole community of practitioners. This book intends to provide a practical, flexible and accurate model to be used when discussing translations.
New Perspectives on Realism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9788869770272
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Series: Philosophy
Description:
With this volume, we present a collection of writings, each offering their own novel perspective regarding the question of realism. Realism has undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention during recent philosophical debates, and one of its characteristic aspects that has made the most notable impact is the way it challenges rigid traditional demarcations between “continental” and “analytic” philosophy. We maintain that there is still much more to be said on the matter and that a renewal of the discussion on realism is necessary and should bypass old divisions.
Performative Citizenship Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9788869770340
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Description:
In 1995, in Chicago, Mary Jacob curated “Culture in action”, an experience of participatory Public Art which left a mark on the contemporary artistic research and criticism. Over the last twenty years, this “new genre of public art” (Lacy 1995) has developed. In these “dialogical” and “connective” aesthetics (Kester 1999, Gablik 1992), public artists have involved citizens in creative performances that aim to modify citizens’ perceptions of the places where they live, to create new relations within and toward the territory, and to transform (often temporarily) the physical spaces.
The Voice of No One Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9788869770807
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The book addresses Merleau-Ponty’s so-called ontology of the flesh, a rather obscure expression that the book explains in depth by drawing from Merleau-Ponty’s lecture courses, published in the last years. In light of these publications, the book shows the importance and the novelty of Merleau-Ponty’s later philosophy, which until recently has been seldom addressed in its entirety. Thanks to the knowledge of the whole range of Merleau-Ponty’s now published body of work and of the as yet unpublished texts, as well as a scholarship acquired through more than 20 years spent working on these themes, the author of the book is able to offer a ground-breaking interpretation of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, whose philosophical relevance is now widely acknowledged both in Europe and the USA, and whose scholarship is fast growing, while at the same time still lacking an overall systematic assessment, which this book aims to provide.
Chiasmi International 18 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9788869770876
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2017
Series: Chiasmi International
Illustrations: 3
Description:
Publication trilingue atour de la pensée de Merleau-PontyTrilingual studies concerning the thought of Merleau-PontyPubblicazione trilingue intorno al pensiero di Merleau-Ponty
Peter Einsenman Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9788869770388
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2017
Illustrations: 30 illustrations
Description:
Peter Eisenman (Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Eisenman Architects, New York, USA) discusses with architects and philosophers: Jörg H. Gleiter (Germany), Kim Förster (Switzerland), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Emmanuel Petit (USA), Mario Carpo (USA), Sarah M. Whiting (USA), Manuel Orazi (Italy), John McMorrough (USA), Gabriele Mastrigli (Italy), Panayotis Pangalos (Greece), Cynthia Davidson (USA), Ingeborg M.
Don Giovanni or the Inconvenient Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9788869770333
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2016
Description:
Don Giovanni chooses a piazza as a place for a lover’s tryst: a piazza that was once, in other times, a theatre of torture and death. The recurring vision of a wooden monument in flames, erected in the great piazza in memory of a man of free thought, is a source of constant disquiet for Don Giovanni, a frightfully terrible trial that evokes fear, anxiety, terror and horror. The image of the wooden monument burning keeps coming back to Don Giovanni’s mind, to the extent that it becomes an obsession, which in the end the great personage realises it somehow represents the inexorable tragic epilogue of his own life.
Cartographies of the Unconscious Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9788869770579
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2016
Description:
If we think of the beginnings of psychoanalysis, we certainly recognise that it overturned the vision human beings had of themselves, the illusion of ownership of their thoughts and actions. And in reality it still remains a way of reading the world, both inside and outside, that is admittedly disorienting. However, especially in recent years, the principles on which psychoanalysis was founded have been subjected to considerable pressure from the outside that forces psychoanalysis to problematise still more its vision of humankind and to abandon everything connected with prejudice toward the culture and history it was born out of, i.
Cinema is a Dream Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9788869770661
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2016
Illustrations: 44 illustrations
Description:
The emergence and spread of new images - photography, film, television and audiovisual - have established an important epistemological revolution oriented contemporary man to take on a confident attitude not only towards the image but also to the real. The modern knowledge, that made explode man’s certainties in hundreds of relative truth, has been removed; the perfect double of reality offered by the new media has quietly deleted the doubt to the faithful restitution of reality into images, and, consequently, to the events of the outside world. To counter this credulity, this mental breakdown, so defined by Joseph Conrad, became widespread in contemporary society, we will need to recover the principles and themes of modern thought born in the seventeenth century.
Requiem for a Nation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9788869770562
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2016
Illustrations: 5 illustrations
Description:
The main objective of this edited collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of a post-war Italy’s cultural history. Starting from the assumption that to conduct a critical reflection on Italian post-war visual culture one must investigate the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life and its social, political and cultural dimensions, the volume employs the vantage point of cinema to propose a critique and exploration of religion’s influence on the Italian cultural landscape. The edited anthology thus seeks to examine how religion is lived, performed, criticized and represented from various methodological perspectives (historical, philological, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, popular studies etc), through four main sections: ‘Propaganda and Censorship’, ‘Auteurial Voices’, ‘Religion in Popular Italian Cinema’, ‘Modern rituals, Ancient myths’.
ILA Arabic Certificate Training Tests Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9788869770630
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2016
Description:
ILA project offers for the first time tests and preparation materials for the Certificate Exam in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the language used in international context and the one in which Arabic speakers identify themselves from a cultural perspective. ILA project interpreted criteria and standards established and recognized by the EU through CEFR, a suitable tool to certify languages on its territory. This book is part of the project first step and focuses on oral skills, which imply the ability to organize linguistic means at a higher level than the one necessary for writing skills.
The West Removed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 86
ISBN: 9788869770678
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2016
Description:
The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose several myths we’ve become accustomed to taking for granted in the West. It posits that exploration of these myths is crucial to understanding the essence of the West or, better, to seeing what has been “removed” from the West as the title of this book implies. What emerges is a rigorous and surprising counter-history of our civilization.