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Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890 - 1939)
Ellen Key (1849–1926) was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women’s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were …
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in the Perspective of Biotechnologies
The dynamic development of biotechnologies and the deepening knowledge of natural and information sciences expand the possibilities of human modification. In this book, the ideas …
L'Ultimo Viaggio Di Paolo
Pur essendo, fin dalle origini della comunita cristiana, oggetto di studi e riflessioni, l'apostolo Paolo, con i suoi viaggi e il suo insegnamento, non cessa di affascinare gli …
Cahiers / Notebooks 1
The" Cahiers/Notebooks" of Paul Valery are a unique form of writing. They reveal Valery as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide …
Stereoscopic London
The book is about Oscar Wilde’s, George Bernard Shaw’s and Arthur Wing Pinero’s plays written and performed in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The …
The Question of Understanding Otherwise
Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the …
The Influence of Text Type on Word Order of Old Germanic Languages
The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types: poetry, original prose and …
Hannah Arendt’s Political Humanism
This introduction to Hannah Arendt’s political thinking, based on a very close reading of the most relevant texts, suggests that her core teaching culminates in a unique kind of …
«Phaedra» – Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine
Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of …
Sexual Fantasies
This book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. So far, much research on …
Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection
This book, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, is more than a field guide to all major testimonies about Thales. It does not merely contain a summary and critique of …
Klaus Mann – A European-American Author
Klaus Mann (1906-1949) was a prolific author who engaged in constantly different fields, from journalism to novels, plays and autobiographies. An exile in the United States, he had …