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The contagious joy of a party, the solemn silence in a church, thegloomy atmosphere of endless rows of identical houses in an ugly city.Through a criticism of the reification and psychologization that goesback to the very beginning of Western philosophy, Hermann Schmitz offers a fundamentally new theory of embodiment and feelings based onatmospheres, unstable but powerful phenomena that fill the "surfacelessspaces" of lived experience. This collection of essays, selected bySchmitz himself, offers a comprehensive portrait of his theory, both inits fundamental outlines and later progress.

Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, if on one side this ongoing revolution keepsproviding an incessant stream of novel and previously unimaginabletechnologies, on the other, as with all revolutions, its profoundeffects threaten to upend much of the previous world order. Facing themany questions that this change is urgently raising will require toacquire a novel and interdisciplinary understanding of the powerfulforces that govern this process. Sitting squarely at the crossroads ofcomputer science, history, socioeconomics, ethics, and philosophy, andwritten by an insider who contributed foundational work to many of thelatest and most pervasive technologies this book offers a much-neededreframing of the past, present and future of computing, that goes farbeyond the typical chronological record of events and arms us with auniquely broad and integrated analysis of their complex origins andtheir numerous side effects.

The Kyoto School is the most important philosophical current in Japan during the 20th century. There is a growing interest in Japanese philosophy, as well as in non-European philosophy in general. This essay aims to conceptualize the political thought of two Japanese authors, Kiyoshi Miki (1897-1945) and Jun Tosaka (1900-1945), in dialogue with contemporary political debates for the first time. Miki and Tosaka were two leftist thinkers, especially interested in thinking about political action "from below." In that sense, this book introduces their core concepts, explores ways to think about the interplay between practice and ideology, while still accounting for their reciprocity and dynamism.

The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring together a classical orientalist approach, based on texts and written documents, with the approach typical of Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, based on research in the field and oral sources: the ethnographic study of the present sheds new light on practices, methods and theories exposed in treatises of the Past while, at the same time, practices of the present may be clarified and illuminated by the study of ancient Sufi texts and authors. These different approaches want to draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by tasawwuf (Sufism) both in its historical and social context and in its nontemporal aspect, concerning spirituality and the ways the latter is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and present.Edited by Thomas Dähnhardt and Giovanni De Zorzi.Contributions by Michel Boivin, Thomas Dähnhardt, Giovanni De Zorzi, Jean During, Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Demetrio Giordani, Alexandre Papas, Stefano Pellò, Ghulam Shams-ur-Rehman, Angelo Scarabel, Thierry Zarcone.

Edited by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda, "Politics, State, Communism" brings together a series of speecheswritten by Álvaro García Linera in a unique political conjuncture: somedate back to when he was serving as vice president of Bolivia, others to the period immediately after the coup d'état of November 2019. Thesewritings cover a wide range of political subjects: social movements andforms of autonomy in Bolivia; democracy and its function in latecapitalism; the discrepancy between national and capitalist spaces; theRussian October Revolution as an event, and its resonances in otherparts of the world; the concept and function of the state; and, finally, the idea of communism in its relation to necessity and contingency.

Unlike in the United Kingdom and France, where fashion during the Second World War is extensively debated, in Italy it is an under researchedtopic, and the behind-the-scenes history of the fashion magazine"Bellezza" - the Italian "Vogue" - launched in 1941, has never beensubmitted to scholarly attention; even though its utopian function indefining a new culture of fashion and code of glamour contributed to the totalitarian project of building a 'new Italian woman'. The currentvolume aspires to fill this gap, using the case of "Bellezza" as akaleidoscope for looking through Italian history and culture, drawing on new primary sources and extraordinary iconography.

There are many ways to mark the anniversary of a civil code: one of them is to analyse the cultural messages it has produced, in order to understand not only by whom such messages have been received but also how, when and to what extent. The current volume is based on a dialogue between European (and, in particular, Italian) legal culture on the one hand, and Latin American legal culture on the other. The authors thus approach the question not by merely searching for the extent of the 'Italianness' within the civil codes of Latin America - which represents a culturally sterile and, indeed, methodologically inappropriate exercise - but in order to understand how legal culture in general, and the legal cultures of Latin America in particular, have been and continue to be in active dialogue with the Italian civil code.Edited by Francesca Benatti, Sergio García, Mauro Grondona and Leysser León Hilario.