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I Nani

By: Giuseppe Viroli

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In un medioevo tecnologico, un reduce di guerra si aggira smarrito alla ricerca di un impiego. Riceve la visita di un nano, che lo paga per un lavoro misterioso da svolgere. E' un errore di persona, che porterà il protagonista in un incubo. La sua storia si intreccia con quella di Selene, una donna selvatica, muta, che vive dentro un bosco accanto a una strana fortezza, e per un trauma subìto vede le persone in forma di nani ...

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211

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Lulu.com

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ISBN 10

1291021523

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9781291021523

Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric

Politics as Transcendence and Contingency

By: Giuseppe Ballacci

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Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric

Politics as Transcendence and Contingency

By: Giuseppe Ballacci

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition. It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H. Arendt, L. Strauss, and R. Rorty. The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

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218

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Springer

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1349952931

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9781349952939

A Genealogy of Public Security

The Theory and History of Modern Police Powers

By: Giuseppe Campesi

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A Genealogy of Public Security

The Theory and History of Modern Police Powers

By: Giuseppe Campesi

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power. This book provides a genealogy of modern police by tracing the evolution of "police science" and of police institutions in Europe, from the ancien régime to the early 19th century. Drawing on the theoretical path outlined by Michel Foucault at the crossroads between historical sociology, critical legal theory and critical criminology, it shows how the development of police power was an integral part of the birth of the modern state’s governmental rationalities and how police institutions were conceived as political technologies for the government and social disciplining of populations. Understanding the modern police not as an institution at the service of the judiciary and the law, but as a complex political technology for governing the economic and social processes typical of modern capitalist societies, this book shows how the police have played an active role in actually shaping order, rather than merely preserving it.

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443

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Routledge

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1317484533

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9781317484530

Alienated Wisdom

Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism

By: Giuseppe Veltri

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Alienated Wisdom

Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism

By: Giuseppe Veltri

The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination ‘Jewish philosophy’ will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110604493

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9783110604498

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I Nani

I Nani

Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric

Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric

A Genealogy of Public Security

A Genealogy of Public Security

Alienated Wisdom

Alienated Wisdom

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