Roberto: 2164 books

An innovative exploration of the Universe in the darkness of existence. Words like flaming swords in a daring journey of thought on the edge of infinity, unusual perspectives of feelings in a daring challenge in the depths of consciousness. The scathing insight into the gloomy solitude of the man,...

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one...

A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects—“the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else,” wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those...

A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi’s triumphs...

Un'ondata di reati a carico dei più deboli, gli anziani, vittime di furti e di truffe. È questa la notizia del giorno che campeggia sulle pagine di tutti i giornali. Polizia e Carabinieri, gli eterni rivali, fanno a gara per correre ai ripari, per dare qualche risultato all'opinione pubblica impaziente....

Como explicar a fascinação que o texto literário sempre exerceu sobre a Psicanálise? É bem possível que, desde Freud, a aproximação entre Literatura e Psicanálise continue a nos seduzir justamente pelo parentesco existente entre a criação do texto literário e o discurso produzido na situação...

The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon. The reason for this, says...

Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would...

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort, philosophical reflection is in a position to exert...

In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by...

Que razões levaram Roosevelt, o presidente da maior democracia do mundo, a sair de Casablanca, Marrocos, em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, sobrevoar um oceano infestado de submarinos alemães para falar pessoalmente com o presidente da maior ditadura da América Latina, em seu próprio país? Do outro...

Kevin, is preparing to go to the usual after dinner appointment with friends, but this time a girl from particular look, will change his plans, making him discover a world he had never imagined exist.

Del corazón de los Andes al corazón de los niños. Un libro que sorprende al mundo. Un iluminador relato de esperanza y determinación, solidaridad e ingenio, que aporta una nueva perspectiva a una historia mundialmente conocida. Este libro que acaba de publicarse en Uruguay, está sorprendiendo...

In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world. For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos....