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  • Croce on History

    Aesthetic Defiguring

    by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    The book is the first critical reading of all the major writings on history by Benedetto Croce. The study is not a summary but a critical assessment based on the relevance of Croce’s aesthetics for his concept of history. This account differs from previous studies which are characterized by the excluding or by minimizing the aesthetic, a process the author calls “defiguring.” Within this framework ... Read more

    $114.39 CAD

  • A Croce Reader

    Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism

    Edited by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents the “other” Croce that has been erased by scholarly tradition, including by Croce himself. Massimo ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Subjects and Simulations

    Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe

    by Gary E. Aylesworth, Thomas P. Brockelman, Alina Clej, Damian Ward Hey, Drew A. Hyland, Basil O'Neill, Henk Oosterling, Stephen David Ross, Katherine Rudolph, Massimo Verdicchio, Martin G. Weiss, Robin May Schott, James R. Watson, Bettina Bergo ...
    Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • The Unpolitical

    On the Radical Critique of Political Reason

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Europe and Empire

    On the Political Forms of Globalization

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Series series Commonalities
    The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of “islands” both ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature

    The Denatured Wild

    by Massimo Lollini, Viola Ardeni, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Stefania Nedderman, Adele Sanna, Meriel Tulante, Marguerite Waller ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might call the “denatured” wild, in other words a notion of environmental “restoration” or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigures the human factor as an interdependent entity. Acknowledging the contributions of Marco Armerio, Serenella Iovino, Giovanna Ricoveri, Patrick Barron and Anna Re among others, Ecocritical Approaches to ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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