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.

Fernando Pessoa. A Quasi Memoir Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 650
ISBN: 9788869771811
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Series: Literature
Description:
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to Pessoa, only by becoming almost one with him, is it possible to trace the life of this poet who was himself a multitude.
Islam and Democracy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN: 9788869771774
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Series: Politics
Description:
During the last six years, a team of scholars, researchers and religious leaders in Europe and the USA worked tirelessly, organising over seventy discussion groups that included members of the local Muslim communities. The present volume presents for the first time the result of their work, developed in collaboration with the Anglican Observer to the United Nations. All discussions were designed to explore different views, rather than to reach a common position.
Original Sins Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9788869772269
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Description:
The revolt of the voters that exploded in 2016 represents a reaction to the effects of financial globalization, with economic discontent driving heightened political and cultural divisions. As populist parties grow across Europe, the common thread – on both left and right – is criticism of the economic policies embraced and enforced by the institutions of the European Union. To suggest that the answer is “more Europe” means putting the cart before the horse, and failing to address the substantive contradictions dogging the EU.
Aesthetics, Literature, and Life Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9788869771804
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Series: Aesthetics
Description:
The complex relationship between life and the arts has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key figure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy. The volume covers a wide-range of topics, from the examination of fundamental principles of art and literary criticism to a new understanding of the Modernist notion of art.
The Phallus and the Mask Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9788869771385
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Series: Psychology
Description:
Psychoanalysts of all schools have generally dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, have welcomed the contributions of feminist theory, psychoanalysis remains hindered by its own unconscious, which is patriarchal. This book wants to cast light on the unthought of Freudian and Lacanian theory by way of an analysis of the concept of femininity.
Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788869772313
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2019
Series: Sociology
Description:
The first Manifesto of Futurism was published in Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avant-garde movement in art – it aimed to change the function of art within society, foster Italian culture beyond its provincial domains, and last but not least, to extend language as free expression of a new and forthcoming society of technology. Art in life was the ultimate aim of Marinetti’s poetry, which then expanded well beyond Italian borders and artistic expression, becoming an attitude for new society.
Althusser and Contingency Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9788869771682
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2019
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The notion of contingency plays a central role in Althusser’s attempt to recast Marxist philosophy and to free the Marxist conception of history from notions such as teleology, necessity and origin. Drawing on a wealth of published and unpublished material, Stefano Pippa discusses how Althusser’s unfaltering commitment to contingency should encourage us to revisit our understanding of his conceptions of structural change, ideology, politics and materialism. As grounded on contingency, Althusser’s so-called ‘Structural Marxism’ originates in fact a ‘logic of interruption’ and a notion of structurally under-determined becoming; just like his theory of ideology is radically reinterpreted on the basis of his notion of ‘overinterpellation’.
Gino Germani Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 118
ISBN: 9788869771699
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2019
Series: Sociology
Description:
Since the 1960's, developing countries in Latin America started a complex journey towards establishing new values, the ones of modernity. This volume considers the work of renowned Italian-Argentine sociologist Gino Germani, who more than anyone else has been able to outline the process of modernization from this particular aspect. The author highlights Germani’s idea of ‘freedom’ as a crucial and unavoidable concept at the core of the “modern” way of being persons, subjects, social actors and active participants within a social system.
The Correspondence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9788869771675
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2019
Series: Shift/Philosophical
Description:
In April 1994, two as-yet-unreleased letters by Sartre and one by Merleau-Ponty were published in the "Magazine Littéraire". Their publication sparked new interpretative hypotheses on the political and philosophical motivations behind the break of the relationship of mutual esteem, friendship, and fruitful intellectual collaboration between Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. The bright tone of their personal contrasts testified the profound theoretical differences between the two thinkers, both at philosophical level and political praxis.
The Size Effect Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 2080
ISBN: 9788869771743
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2019
Illustrations: 35
Description:
At the end of the last century, the so-called "new technologies" started to question the process of design, production, sales and consumption through a radical change, which today re-defines many concepts both in industry and every-day life. The notion of "size" – a cross-cutting term in the cultural and creative sector – has gone through a phase of crisis from which it is now re-emerging, enriched with new meanings and possibilities. To re-define this complex term, the authors of the book have observed the path of audiovisual products and social media, fashion, everyday objects, architectures and cities, and identified in each of these fields elements of continuity, breaking points with the past as well as future alternatives.
A History of Cinema Without Names Volume 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9788869771354
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
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.
Phenomenology and Pathography of Memory Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9788869771750
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The concept of memory has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. This book re-traces the thought of major philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, William James, José Luis Borges and Sigmund Freud to provide an indepth exploration around several aspects of this timely issue. How is a memory formed?
Pragmatism and Vagueness Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 86
ISBN: 9788869771767
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
Series: Philosophy
Description:
For most early pragmatists, including the founder C.S. Peirce and L.
Sunniness in Painting Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9788869771712
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
Series: Art
Illustrations: 67
Description:
Since the middle of the twentieth century, visual art has displayed an ambivalent nature, torn between the poles of abstractionism and realism, conceptual and postmodern, classicist nostalgia and the violent provocation for its own sake. This essay builds an argument in favour of tracing a different path for the visual arts, in which art might be able to recover its fullness and universality. The artists analysed in this volume – starting with Hopper and Balthus, singled out as precursors – appear to be following this shared path, even though they belong to different generations.
CINÉMA&CIE 
INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURN AL
vol. XVIII, no. 30, Spring 2018 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9788869771705
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2019
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Illustrations: 16
Description:
This special issue of Cinéma & Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the relationship between Maoism and national cinemas, from the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution to the present day. All the articles included in the special issue highlight the complexity of the process of translation and ‘reinvention’ of Maoism in different cultural contexts, focusing on subjects and historical episodes that have been suppressed in public debates and in traditional film history books.
Tangible Whispers, Neglected Encounters Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9788869771552
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2018
Series: Art
Illustrations: 36
Description:
The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension. Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography. The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’.