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G. AMENGUAL / M. CABOR / J. L. VERNAL, EDS.
RUPTURA DE LA TRADICIÓN
Estudios sobre Walter Benjamin y Martin Heidegger
2008 – 190 pp. € 15,00
INDICE: G. Amengual: Pérdida de la experiencia y ruptura de la tradición. La experiencia en el
pensamiento de Walter Benjamin — M. Cabot: Sobre los medios técnicos y la renovación de tradiciones.
Walter Benjamin y el concepto de “experiencia” pensado desde la estética — J. A. Zamora: Dialéctica
mesiánica: tiempo e interrupción en Walter Benjamin — F. Duque: El corazón del ser. (Lo sagrado en
Heidegger y Hölderlin) — A. Leyte: Silencio y olvido como constituyentes de la filosofía — J. L.
Vermal: Ruptura de la experiencia y experiencia de la ruptura. Acerca de Heidegger, el nihilismo y el
tiempo.
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P. CURD / D. W. GRAHAM, EDS.
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK
OF PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
2008 – xii + 588 pp. € 94,65
INDICE: 1. Background: D. T. Runia: The sources for presocratic philosophy — W. Burkert: Prehistory
of presocratic philosophy in an orientalizing context — 2. Figures and Movements: S. A. White:
Milesian measures: time, space, and matter — A. P. D. Mourelatos: The cloud-astrophysics of
Xenophanes and ionian material monism — D. W. Graham: Hereclitus: flux, order, and knowledge —
R. D. McKirahan: Signs and arguments in parmenides B8 — P. Curd: Anaxagoras and the theory of
everything — O. Primavesi: Empedocles: physical and mythical divinity — C. Huffman: Two problems
in pythagoreanism — D. Sedley: Atomism’s eleatic roots — D. W. Graham: Leucippus’ atomism — A.
Laks: Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia — M. Gagarin / P. Woodruff: The sophists — 3.
Topics: P. van der Eijk: The role of medicine in the formation of early greek thought — M. R. Wright:
Presocratic cosmologies — R. J. Hankinson: Reason, cause, and explanation in presocratic philosophy
— J. H. Lesher: The humanizing of knowledge in presocratic thought — T. M. Robinson: Presocratic
theology — 4. Reception: M. Frede: Aristotle’s account of the origins of philosophy — J. Palmer:
Classical representations and uses of the presocratics.
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G. FINE, ED.
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PLATO
2008 – xii + 604 pp. € 94,65
INDICE: M. Schofield: Plato in his time and place — T. H. Irwin: The platonic corpus — M. M.
McCabe: Plato’s ways of writing — G. B. Matthews: The epistemology and metaphysics of Socrates
— D. Devereux: Socratic ethics and moral psychology — C. C. W. Taylor: Plato’s epistemology — V.
Harte: Plato’s metaphysics — P. Crivelli: Plato’s philosophy of language — H. Lorenz: Plato on the
soul — J. Annas: Plato’s ethics — R. Kraut: Plato on love — C. Bobonich: Plato’s politics — R.
Kamtekar: Plato on education and art — D. Scott: The republic — S. Peterson: The Parmenides — M.K. Lee: The Theaetetus — L. Brown: The sophist on statements, predication, and falsehood — T.
Johansen: The Timaeus on the principles of cosmology — C. C. Meinwald: The Philebus — C. Shields:
Plato and Aristotle in the academy — C. Brittain: Plato and platonism.
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D. GIOVANNOZZI / M. VENEZIANI, EDS.
NATURA
XII colloquio internazionale del Lessico
intellettuale europeo, Roma, 4-6 gennaio 2007
2008 – vi + 566 pp. € 65,50
INDICE: L. Canfora: Hoc vel forte vel providentia vel utcumque constitutum naturae corpus — I.
Hajdú: De uocabuli, quod est natura, apud ueteres usu — G. Lettieri: Evoluzione e ambiguità del
concetto di natura in Agostino d’Ippona — K. Mitalaité: Mutations et développement de la notion de
natura dans la théologie et la philosophie carolingiennes (VIIIe-IXe siècles) — G. Spinosa: Natura: la
nascita dell’essenza. Boezio e l’Aristoteles latinus — E. Jeauneau: Nature et Natures dans le Periphyseon
— J. Hamesse: La polysémie de natura dans les sources lexicographiques disponibles aux 12e et 13e
siècles — R. Busa: Nuovi aspetti della microanalisi sintattica con un loro saggio su natura nell’Aquinate
e nell’Index Thomisticus — M. Passarotti: Una dependency treebank come proposta per l’Index
Thomisticus — P. Galluzzi: La natura di Leonardo: «più tosto crudele matrigna che madre» — V.
Perrone Compagni: Natura maga. Il concetto di natura nella discussione rinascimentale sulla magia
— M. Muccillo: Natura in Ficino e nella successiva tradizione platonica — G. Stabile: L’idea di
natura nella scienza del seicento — M. Fattori: «Qvi de Naturâ tranquàm de re exploratâ pronuntiare
ausi sunt...». Il nuovo studio della natura proposto da Francis Bacon — J.-R. Armogathe: Sémantèse
de nature/natura dans le corpus cartésien — P. Totaro: Natura in Spinoza — M. Sina: Natural e
Supernatural negli scritti di John Locke — R. Palaia: Natura e filosofia della natura nel dibattito
filosofico tedesco fra XVII e XVIII secolo — A. Lamarra: Il regno della natura in Leibniz tra
meccanicismo fisico, nuova scienza della dinamica e architettonica metafisica — M. Veneziani:
Immagini della natura nella Scienza nuova di Vico — N. Hinske: Natur und Freiheit im Denken Kants
— C. Cesa: La «seconda natura» tra Kant e Hegel — H. Reinhardt: Heilende und tröstliche Gesetzlichkeit
zu einigen Aspekten von Goethes Auffassung und Erforschung der Natur — S. Poggi: Proteo imbrigliato.
La natura dai romantici a Helmholtz — N. Irti: L’immagine della natura nel diritto contemporaneo.
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N. GROSS
RICHARD RORTY
The Making of an American Philosopher
2008 – xxi + 367 pp. € 20,80
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A. SOKAL
BEYOND THE HOAX
Science, Philosophy and Culture
2008 – xxi + 465 pp. € 23,40
INDICE: 1. The Social Text Affair: The parody, annotated — Transgressing the boundaries: an afterword
— Truth, reason, objectivity, and the left — Science studies: less than meets the eye — What the
Social text affair does and does not prove — 2. Science and Philosophy: Cognitive relativism in the
philosophy of science — Defense of a modest scientific realism — 3. Science and Culture:
Pseudoscience and postmodernism: antagonists or fellow-travelers? — Religion, politics and survival
— Epilogue: epistemology and ethics.
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C. ZITTEL & AL., EDS.
PHILOSOPHIES OF TECHNOLOGY
Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries, 2 vols.
2008 – xxix + 577 pp. € 155,00
INDICE: 1: Beginnings: L. Dolza: “Industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable
inventions and discoveries; the best state of that province”: technology and culture during Francis
Bacon’s stay in France — J. Klein: Francis Bacon’s Scientia Operativa, the tradition of the workshops,
and the secrets of nature — R. Nanni: Technical knowledge and the advancement of learning: some
questions about ‘perfectibility’ and ‘invention’ — A. Borrelli: The weatherglass and its observers in
the early seventeenth century — 2: Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias: S. Weeks: The role
of mechanics in Francis Bacon’s Great Instauration — D. Jalobeanu: Bacon’s brotherhood and its
classical sources: producing and communicating knowledge in the project of the Great Instauration —
T. A. Borlik: The whale under the microscope: technology and objectivity in two Renaissance utopias
— 3: Metaphoric Models: J. Pulkkinen: The role of metaphors in William Harvey’s thought — A.
Vaccari: Legitimating the machine: the epistemological foundation of technological metaphor in the
natural philosophy of René Descartes — C. Zittel: Descartes as bricoleur — 4: Bacon’s Legacy: the
Impact for the Arts and Sciences: B. Heinecke: The poet and the philosopher: Francis Bacon and
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer — B. Wardhaugh: Formal causes and mechanical causes: the analogy of the
musical instrument in late seventeenth-century natural philosophy — D. Damler: The modern wonder
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and its enemies: courtly innovations in the Spanish Renaissance — M. Epple: The gap between theory
and practice: hydrodynamical and hydraulical utopias in the 18th century — T. Brandstetter: Sentimental
hydraulics: utopia and technology in 18th-century France — S. Müller-Wille: History redoubled: the
synthesis of facts in Linnaean natural history — P. Schneider: Rescue attemps: scientific images and
the mysteries of power in the era of Louis XIV.
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