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The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization
This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More particularly, the book strengthens and improves one of the most important and popular current streams of cultural sociology, that of collective trauma. Using a comparative perspective to study the trajectories of similarly traumatized groups in different countries allows for not only a thick description of the return processes, but also a thick explanation of the mechanisms and factors shaping them. Learning from these various cases of colonial returnees, the authors have been able to develop a new theoretical framework that may help cultural sociologists to explain why seemingly similar claims of collective trauma and victimhood garner respect and recognition in certain contexts, but fail in others.
Psychiatry and the Human Condition
This book is the result of extensive archival research conducted on the Collection “Silvano Arieti Papers” held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. It offers readers the first scientific biography of the renowned Italian-born psychiatrist Silvano Arieti, who in 1939 emigrated to the United States, where he gained fame and recognition for his work on schizophrenia. In 1975, the second edition of his book, Interpretation of Schizophrenia, received the National Book Award in Science. The book has been cast as a twofold journey: an exploration of the life of a psychiatrist and scientist and an overview of twentieth century psychiatry and its significant issues, debates, and transformations. Readers will find useful insights for a better understanding of psychiatry as a discipline capable of portraying the complexity of human nature.
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
How can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "the Greek miracle." The beginnings of the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the Greek city-states of sou...
Philosophy of Quine: General, reviews, and analytic
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Interiorità e anima
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Living Stones
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Didattica della storia e consapevolezza di cittadinanza
La riflessione sulla didattica che sta coinvolgendo in modo consapevole e crescente la scuola italiana non poteva non riguardare l'insegnamento della Storia. Storia come disciplina, storia come oggetto di studio: domini diversi che nella didattica e nell'insegnamento si intersecano particolarmente, convinti come siamo che la scuola è oggi tenuta a offrire competenze abilitanti, oltre che nozioni e cognizioni, a interagire con i significati, più che a riproporre staticamente il già dato. La didattica della storia, in questi termini, si presenta come un banco di prova di grande interesse per il rinnovamento dell'insegnamento. Una rinnovata e più rigorosa, sistematica e consapevole riflessi...
Prigionieri del silenzio
Il libro Prigionieri del silenzio riporta alla luce, dopo aver percorso una strada lunga, tortuosa e accidentata, le storie quasi dimenticate di gruppi di persone sfollate e deportate tra il 1943-1944 dal paese di Castelforte (a cui in quel periodo era annesso quello di Santi Cosma e Damiano) durante la seconda guerra mondiale. I protagonisti rappresentano i simboli di tutti coloro che videro allora spegnersi desideri, sogni e illusioni. Sradicati dalla loro terra, devastata dagli eventi bellici, quei poveri derelitti furono costretti a spostarsi verso paesi e città della Repubblica Sociale Italiana o deportati nei lager in balia della sopraffazione germanica. Dai loro ricordi scritti e raccontati, da quelli quasi sopiti dei figli e nipoti e dall’analisi di documenti archiviati e impolverati colpiscono come staffilate la sofferenza, la nostalgia, la paura e la fame che patirono. Ma, al di sopra di tutto, molti di loro non persero la speranza di riuscire di nuovo a calpestare il suolo natio e a respirare a pieni polmoni l’aria e i profumi mai dimenticati.
