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Beyond anthropocentrism

Thoughts for a post-human philosophy

By: Roberto Marchesini

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Beyond anthropocentrism

Thoughts for a post-human philosophy

By: Roberto Marchesini

Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries-long separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings – what Marchesini calls “Epiphany” – and how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates. Technopoietic events are not just the product of human intelligence, but they arise from an epiphany (a becoming alterity), thus positioning technology well within the ontological and somatic dimension of human beings. This book lays the foundations for a new and non-anthropocentric Humanism, which is able to recognize the essential role that non-human alterities have had throughout our history.

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Mimesis

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8869772063

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Critical Ethology and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics

Beyond the Separation between Humanities and Life Sciences

By: Roberto Marchesini,Marco Celentano

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Critical Ethology and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics

Beyond the Separation between Humanities and Life Sciences

By: Roberto Marchesini,Marco Celentano

The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences which, according to the authors, is required today both by the developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they have to face. The volume discusses the theoretical, epistemological and ethical repercussions of the main acquisitions obtained in the last decades from the behavioral sciences. Both the authors are inspired by the concept of a “critical ethology”, oriented to archive the nature/culture and human/animal dichotomies. The book proposes a theoretical and methodological restructuring of the comparative study of the animal behavior, learning, and cultures, focused on the fact that thought, culture and language are not exclusively human prerogatives. The proposed analysis includes a critique of speciesism and determinism in the ethical field, and converge with the Numanities, to which the series is dedicated, on a key point: it is necessary to arrive at an education system able to offer scientific, social and ethical skills that are trasversal and transcendent to the traditional humanities/life sciences bipartition. Skills that are indispensable for facing the complex challenges of the contemporary society and promoting a critical reflection of humanity on itself.

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3030742032

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Over the Human

Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany

By: Roberto Marchesini

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Over the Human

Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany

By: Roberto Marchesini

This book presents a new way to understand human–animal interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment, and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy. The research presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian Renaissance. Readers discover a vision of the human as a species informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable and, therefore, more hybrid. The argument it presents interests scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who wants to delve into the deep animal–human bond and its philosophical, cultural, political instances. The author is a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels.

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3319625810

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The Virus Paradigm

A Planetary Ecology of the Mind

By: Roberto Marchesini

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The Virus Paradigm

A Planetary Ecology of the Mind

By: Roberto Marchesini

In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader – could say 'paradigmatic' – meaning. The term 'virus' can be seen as a key word or an explanatory model also for processes that go beyond the infectious sphere. Every event appears to have a viral character: from the way information is transmitted to the processes of cultural globalization, from the impact of human beings on the planet to the subversion of ecosystems, from pandemic risks to the demographic increase on the planet. This seems to be indeed the Age of the Virus. Its model can be applied to most of the phenomena that characterize the twenty-first. Its profile – its looming and invisible nature, its ability to use other people's resources to spread and to transform into a dangerous doppelganger – is perfect to represent the fears of the contemporary age.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108967264

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Beyond anthropocentrism

Thoughts for a post-human philosophy

By: Roberto Marchesini

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Technophysiology, or How Technology Modifies the Self

By: Roberto Marchesini

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Technophysiology, or How Technology Modifies the Self

By: Roberto Marchesini

In an increasingly technology-driven world, our bodies undergo profound transformations that go well beyond the obvious effects on our posture and musculature. This book explores how devices actually shape our bodies, from hormonal systems to brain organization, immune function, and metabolism. Understanding the ways in which devices affect our bodies has become imperative in today's society. Backed by a wealth of scientific research spanning the past two decades, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the disorders and shifts that have emerged as a result of technology: from addictions and pathologies to newfound needs. Moreover, it unveils the societal changes brought about by new technologies. The book was written with both scholars of philosophy, anthropology, medicine, technology, human sciences and natural sciences and general readers in mind.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527528839

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The Creative Animal

How Every Animal Builds its Own Existence

By: Roberto Marchesini

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The Creative Animal

How Every Animal Builds its Own Existence

By: Roberto Marchesini

This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book focuses on the concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new explanatory model of behavior capable of overcoming the image of the animal moved by automatisms. This model does not use consciousness as a necessary condition, but is based: 1) on affective components, such as behavioral motives, and 2) cognitive, as tools used by the subject to carry out his purposes. Particular attention is paid to the learning processes showing the subjective character of the experience. One topic addressed is the role of creativity in the evolution of living beings: how an invention, by modifying the niche characteristics, is able to change the selective pressures and the trajectory of phylogeny. Roberto Marchesini explains that creativity is a factor that is anything but rare or exceptional in the animal world—it constitutes a fundamental quality for many aspects of animal life.

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Springer Nature

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3031074149

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Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition

History, Philosophy and Current Status

By: Roberto Manzocco

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Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition

History, Philosophy and Current Status

By: Roberto Manzocco

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a “paradigm shift” in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution. Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to take the course of evolution into its own hands, using advanced technologies currently under development – such as robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cognitive neurosciences, and nanotechnology – to overcome our present physical and mental limitations, improve our intelligence beyond the current maximum achievable level, acquire skills that are currently the preserve of other species, abolish involuntary aging and death, and ultimately achieve a post-human level of existence. The book covers transhumanism from a historical, philosophical, and scientific viewpoint, tracing its cultural roots, discussing the main philosophical, epistemological, and ethical issues, and reviewing the state of the art in scientific research on the topics of most interest to transhumanists. The writing style is clear and accessible for the general reader, but the book will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students.

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3030049582

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Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST '91

A Selection of Papers from the Second International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Krems, Austria, April 15-19, 1991. Proceedings

By: Franz Pichler,Roberto Moreno Diaz

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Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST '91

A Selection of Papers from the Second International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Krems, Austria, April 15-19, 1991. Proceedings

By: Franz Pichler,Roberto Moreno Diaz

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second European workshop EUROCAST '91, held in Krems, Austria, in April 1991. It gives an overview of the current state of Computer Aided Systems Theory research and its relation to CAD applications in the engineering fields. CAST research requires the application of the most advanced information processing technology in software and hardware for the implementation of CAST method base systems. Engineers in the field of information and control engineering have the opportunity in CAST to present the state ofthe art in modeling tools to computer scientists. EUROCAST '91 proved that CAST research is still in an early state of development. The papers in the volume are organized into sections on systems theory and CAST methodology, modeling environments, CAST method base systems and artificial vision, and information and control systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540553541

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Terms of the Political:Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

By: Roberto Esposito

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Terms of the Political:Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

By: Roberto Esposito

This title calls for the opening of political thought toward a re-signification of terms - such as 'community, ' 'immunity, ' 'biopolitics, ' and 'the impersonal' - in ways that affirm rather than negate life.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823242641

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Liver Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

By: Roberto J. Firpi

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Liver Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

By: Roberto J. Firpi

Cirrhosis from hepatitis C (HCV) is now the most common indication for liver transplant (LT) in the U.S., but between 2004 and 2013, new LT listings for NASH increased by 170%. Unfortunately, fibrosis progression leading to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and liver decompensation continues to occur after transplantation. Once cirrhosis and decompensation are evident, patient survival is poor and repeat LT is considered to improve outcomes. Therefore, the never-ending thirst for new approaches in the management of patients pre- and post-transplant has led to a very promising future in transplantation, thought there is much to learn to achieve better patient outcomes. This issue of Clinics in Liver Disease addresses the core areas to achieve better patient outcomes, with articles devoted to coagulopathy before liver transplant, challenges in renal failure before LT, LT for acute alcoholic hepatitis, LT in the pregnant patient, bariatric surgery and LT,and MELD Scores in prioritization of LT, to name a few. Readers will place a high value on the current state of liver transplantation in this issue.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323528457

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9780323528450

The Glaucomas

Volume I - Pediatric Glaucomas

By: Roberto Sampaolesi,Jorge Zarate,Juan Roberto Sampaolesi

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The Glaucomas

Volume I - Pediatric Glaucomas

By: Roberto Sampaolesi,Jorge Zarate,Juan Roberto Sampaolesi

Congenital glaucoma is a complex problem, which has been a frequent cause of blindness in the past. Over the past decades, the prognosis of congenital glaucoma has completely changed. Surgical results are very good and enable these children to integrate entirely as adults in society. Based on the authors’ accumulated experience of more than 50 years and 860 cases operated for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated textbook-atlas covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma, such as the original method for examining new-borns under general anaesthesia in the slit-lamp, the signs and symptoms of the disease and the differential diagnosis, the role and importance of the echometry value for early diagnosis, the gonioscopy results and the three types of congenital glaucomas (pure, refractory and late) and the type of surgery to be performed in each case with the evaluation of follow-up long-term results. Written by renowned international experts of the field, this book will become the golden standard in the field of Pediatric and Congenital Glaucomas.

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3540691464

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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979

By: Roberto Curti

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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979

By: Roberto Curti

Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre. Stories often featured over-the-top violence and nudity and pushed the limits of what could be shown on the screen. The decade marked the return of specialist directors like Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda and Antonio Margheriti, and the emergence of new talents such as Pupi Avati (The House with the Laughing Windows) and Francesco Barilli (The Perfume of the Lady in Black). The author examines the Italian Gothic horror of the period, providing previously unpublished details and production data taken from official papers, original scripts and interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and actors. Entries include complete cast and crew lists, plot summaries, production history and analysis. An appendix covers Italian made-for-TV films and mini-series.

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McFarland

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1476664692

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Circadian Physiology

By: Roberto Refinetti, PhD.

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Circadian Physiology

By: Roberto Refinetti, PhD.

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep every day. This new edition of Circadian Physiology delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these rhythms work, the physiology and biology behind them, and the latest research on this cutting-edge field. The book also discusses a wide variety of practi

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CRC Press

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1466514981

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The Creative Animal

How Every Animal Builds its Own Existence

By: Roberto Marchesini

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How Every Animal Builds its Own Existence

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The Virus Paradigm

A Planetary Ecology of the Mind

By: Roberto Marchesini

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A Planetary Ecology of the Mind

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Over the Human

Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany

By: Roberto Marchesini

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Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany

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Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2016). Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories: Part II

By: AA. VV.

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Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2016). Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories: Part II

By: AA. VV.

Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini - The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando - From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori - Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit, D. Sisto - The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino, A. Lanfranchi - Against Animal Rights? A Comment on Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism), by R. Marchesini, A.G. Biuso - Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by F. Ferrando, A. Balzano - Reviews: LNRZ, Golem (2014); LNRZ, Astrogamma (2015), V. Gamberi - Alessandro Ferrante, Pedagogia e orizzonte post-umanista (2014), C. Palmieri - Davide Sisto, Narrare la morte. Dal romanticismo al post-umano (2013), C. Rebuffo - Wajdi Mouawad, Anima (2015), D. Zagaria - Her (2013), film directed by Spike Jonze, A. Lanfranchi e G. Ravanelli.

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LED Edizioni Universitarie

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8879163604

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