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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stefano calabrese”
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  • Emotions in a Transdisciplinary Light

    Edited by Stefano Calabrese, Annamaria Contini ...
    Series Book 20 - Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies
    The volume is based on the assumption that, as demonstrated by the British psychologist Keith Oatley and the Portuguese neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, emotions are involuntary responses to sensory triggers and give rise to real action programs. Generated by the limbic brain and capable of releasing chemical molecules such as dopamine or cortisol, the triggering of emotional responses is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Neuro-Narratology

    The Neural Secrets of Narration

    Edited by Stefano Calabrese ...
    Series Book 15 - Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies
    What happens in our brain when we create a story? Based on neuro-cognitivism, the study of narratives – ranging from novels to “life-stories”, which relate to interstitial topics – has become more rigorous. In fact, an unparalleled panorama of constants, cemented since the Upper Palaeolithic, has been added to an unprecedented awareness of how each cultural habitat shapes the narratives of its ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Forms and Uses of Argument

    Transdisciplinary Aspects of Figurative Language: from Aesthetics to Neuroscience

    Edited by Stefano Calabrese, Annamaria Contini ...
    Series Book 13 - Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies
    This volume is the result of transdisciplinary studies conducted by professors and researchers of the Department of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. It cross-applies neuro-scientific, aesthetic, linguistic and rhetorical methods to focus on the concept of argumentation, much studied during the 20th century and then forsaken. The common thread that links ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

    Edited by Salvatore Attardo ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language ... Read more

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  • Neuroscience and Philosophy

    Brain, Mind, and Language

    by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle ...
    In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

    by Michael Caesar ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Antonino Ferro ...
    Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion. Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis provides a concise and comprehensive introductory overview of the latest thinking in this area, with additional contemporary theoretical influences from Freud, Klein, and Winnicottian ... Read more

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  • I Speak, Therefore I Am

    Seventeen Thoughts About Language

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    by Andrea Moro ...
    There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.—DescartesLanguage is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are ... Read more

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    Experiences in Child Analysis

    by Antonino Ferro ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
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  • History of Translation

    Contributions to Translation Science in History: Authors, Ideas, Debate

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 15 - Translation Studies
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