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Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world...

A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher’s eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi...

A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio--a familiar iconographic subject in the...

Internationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s bold redefinition of methodological inquiry into the human sciencesThe Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on...

From the award-winning illustrator of Professional Crocodile comes a gorgeously atmospheric wordless fairytale adventure filled with new friends, starry skies, and a little bit of magic. It’s a...

A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in...

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West...

Giorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays.“Which house is burning?” asks Giorgio Agamben. “The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole...

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science “[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.” —Carlo RovelliWith In a...

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another's personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an extended trip to Italy--"the land where the lemon trees blossom, the golden oranges glowing amid dark foliage," as Goethe famously described it--was...

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In...

Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four...

Il volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno dedicato alla presenza di Giorgione a Montagnana (Padova), svoltosi nella medesima città il 29 novembre 2003. Ad esso hanno partecipato accreditati...

It is widely accepted among conservation biologists that genetics is, more than ever, an essential and efficient tool for wild and captive population management and reserve design. However, a true...

Until recently, black holes were often considered as exotic objects of dubious existence. In the last decade, observations have provided overwhelming evidence in favour of the presence of...

This richly illustrated volume offers a new look at the exceptional collection of Italian drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. An introductory essay by Laura M. Giles chronicles the...