Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as...

A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysics An ancient tradition hold...

'Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augus...

A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in i...

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been ba...

'From missing persons to disenfranchised civil subjects, from individuals tainted with infamy to ...

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a ...

An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into what it means to feel alive.

An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within a forge when ...

In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible t...

Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten...

Así como es posible adquirir un lenguaje también es posible perderlo. Las personas pueden olvidar...

Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the'

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a ...

Wherever human beings share a language, they also strive to make from it something new: a cryptic...

The philosophical genealogy of a remarkable antagonist: the pirate, the key to the contemporary p...

'Agamben's intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating.'--The Review of Politics'The stor...

Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulys...

An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into the sense of being sentient--wh...

This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Aga...