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The Enigma of the Mind

The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought

By: Sergio Moravia

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The Enigma of the Mind

The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought

By: Sergio Moravia

Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid critical and historical survey of one of the fundamental debates in the philosophy of mind - the relationship of mind and body. This problem continues to raise deep questions concerning the nature of man. The book has two central aims. First, Professor Moravia sketches the major recent contributions to the mind/body problem from philosophers of mind. Having established this framework Professor Moravia pursues his second aim - the articulation of a particular interpretation of the mental and the mind-body problem. The book's detailed and systematic treatment of this fundamental philosophical issue make it ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. It should also prove provocative reading for psychologists and cognitive scientists.

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340

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Cambridge University Press

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0521405572

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9780521405577

Generative Morphology

By: Sergio Scalise

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Generative Morphology

By: Sergio Scalise

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

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253

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110877325

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9783110877328

Masculinity and Italian Cinema

Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s

By: Sergio Rigoletto

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Masculinity and Italian Cinema

Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s

By: Sergio Rigoletto

Headline: A study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberationBlurb: Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the country's many social and political upheavals. Masculinity and Italian Cinema examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation. Through an analysis of the way Italian films explore anxieties about male sexuality and femininity, the book shows how such anxieties also intersect with particular preoccupations about national identity and political engagement. This is an essential study-tool to understand the multiple constructions of masculinity in Italian cinema, helping students and researchers to understand the work of some of Italy's most provocative filmmakers.Key Features* Re-examines key Italian films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, Ettore Scola's A Special Day, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem and Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi, in the light of gender and queer theory.* Covers the major thematic concerns, genres and stylistic traits of 1970s Italian political cinema* Analyses the broader cultural context of 1970s Italy, including sections on Italian feminism, Gay liberation and the post-'68 social movements.Key Words: Gender; Queer; Body; Gay; Feminism; Pier Paolo Pasolini; Bernardo Bertolucci; Lina Wertmuller; Nanni Moretti; Federico Fellini; Ettore Scola; Marco Ferreri.

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176

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748654550

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9780748654550

The Art of Flight

By: Sergio Pitol

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The Art of Flight

By: Sergio Pitol

Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

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425

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1941920063

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9781941920060

The Journey

By: Sergio Pitol

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The Journey

By: Sergio Pitol

Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives

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194

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1941920187

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9781941920183

The Internationalisation of Constitutional Law

A View from the Venice Commission

By: Sergio Bartole

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The Internationalisation of Constitutional Law

A View from the Venice Commission

By: Sergio Bartole

In this book one of the longest-standing members of The Venice Commission reflects on the work of the institution to show how constitutional law in Europe (and beyond) has become increasingly borderless. Over nine chapters, the book tracks the work of the Commission, illustrating the law both in action and in its broader political and historical context. It looks at its treatment of the judiciary and judicial conflicts, including the present crisis of the rule of law in Central Eastern Europe Member States of the European Union. Finally it suggests how all this can only be sensibly understood as a feature of the broader trend towards the internationalisation of constitutional law.

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293

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509941487

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9781509941483

The Eichmann Trial Diary

A Chronicle of the Holocaust

By: Sergio I. Minerbi

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The Eichmann Trial Diary

A Chronicle of the Holocaust

By: Sergio I. Minerbi

Easy to read and scrupulously accurate.

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210

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Enigma Books

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1936274213

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9781936274215

The Body of Il Duce

Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy

By: Sergio Luzzatto

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The Body of Il Duce

Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy

By: Sergio Luzzatto

A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he was adored in life. With Italy's defeat in World War II, the cult of Benito Mussolini's physical self was brought to its grotesque denouement by a frenzied, jeering crowd of thousands-one eerily similar to the cheering throngs that had once roared their approval beneath Il Duce's balcony. In this groundbreaking work, Sergio Luzzatto traces the fortunes of the Fascist dictator's body: from his charisma, virility, and magnetic domination of Fascist parades, to his humiliating execution, the ugly display of his remains, and beyond. Buried, exhumed, stolen, and hidden for ten years, Il Duce's corpse was finally laid to rest, a shrine for fanatical followers. Through this pursuit, Luzzatto shows how in a totalitarian state the body of the ruler comes to incarnate the nation. And from the indignities visited on Mussolini's corpse, Luzzatto crafts a subtle social and intellectual history of a country struggling to become a republic and free itself from the thrall of Fascism. Elegantly written and stunningly conceived, alive with never-before-published letters, diaries, and reports, The Body of Il Duce cuts a new and compelling path through twentieth-century history.

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272

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Metropolitan Books

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146688360X

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9781466883604

An Outline of European History from 1789 to 1989

By: Sergio Romano

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An Outline of European History from 1789 to 1989

By: Sergio Romano

Viewed through the political necessities of the nation state, the tumultuous events of the twentieth century and the sentiments at the heart of those events take on a fresh perspective.

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189

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Berghahn Books

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1571810765

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9781571810762

A Human Restoration

Architectural lessons from a border asylum

By: Giuseppina Scavuzzo,Gianfranco Guaragna,Sergio Pratali Maffei

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A Human Restoration

Architectural lessons from a border asylum

By: Giuseppina Scavuzzo,Gianfranco Guaragna,Sergio Pratali Maffei

Beginning with the double meaning of the Italian verb "riparare" (to protect and to restore) we compare architecture — which has always had the task of building shelter but which, today, also proposes to restore existing buildings and the urban fabric — with psychiatry, which in its history has claimed to repair the mind of the insane, protecting both the afflicted and society itself through internment. The comparison between architecture and psychiatry is appropriate if one is planning the repurposing of a former mental hospital, and the comparison becomes incredibly pertinent if the asylum in question is the one where, in 1961, the battle for the rights of people with mental disorders was born, leading to the "Basaglia Law" of 1978 which banished an architectural typology — that of the psychiatric hospital — that had become the symbol of the denial of those rights. The story of this hospital, now called Basaglia Park, is marginal in every sense — one of its edges coincides with the state border — and at the same time, it is central to a troubled history involving the intersection of cultures, identities and languages, making it emblematic in light of contemporary events. With all its complexity, this place has been proposed as the subject of knowledgeable reflection and different design practices.

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139

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LetteraVentidue

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8862425473

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9788862425476

Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context

By: Sergio Ripoll

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Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context

By: Sergio Ripoll

This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy.

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Oxford University Press

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019929917X

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9780199299171

The Magician of Vienna

By: Sergio Pitol

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The Magician of Vienna

By: Sergio Pitol

The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1941920497

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The Enigma of the Mind

The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought

By: Sergio Moravia

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The Enigma of the Mind

The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought

By: Sergio Moravia

Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad, lucid, critical and historical survey of one of the fundamental debates in the philosophy of mind: the relationship of mind and body. The book has two central aims--to sketch the major recent contributions to the mind-body problem from philosophers of mind, and, once this framework is established, to articulate a particular interpretation of the mental and the mind-body problem.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521405505

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9780521405508

Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

By: Sergio Torres

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Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

By: Sergio Torres

Un resumen de las historia sucedidas en Metrópolis en los últimos años.

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Lulu.com

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1291222081

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9781291222081

Book's by Sergio Moravia

The Enigma of the Mind

The Enigma of the Mind

Generative Morphology

Generative Morphology

Masculinity and Italian Cinema

Masculinity and Italian Cinema

The Art of Flight

The Art of Flight

The Journey

The Journey

The Internationalisation of Constitutional Law

The Internationalisation of Constitutional Law

The Eichmann Trial Diary

The Eichmann Trial Diary

The Body of Il Duce

The Body of Il Duce

An Outline of European History from 1789 to 1989

An Outline of European History from 1789 to 1989

A Human Restoration

A Human Restoration

Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context

Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context

The Magician of Vienna

The Magician of Vienna

The Enigma of the Mind

The Enigma of the Mind

Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

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