Leo Strauss, Karl Löwith
Carocci

Questo volume raccoglie per la prima volta in lingua italiana l'intero carteggio tra due grande filosofi politici del Novecento, Leo Strauss e Karl Löwith. Attraverso i loro scambi epistolari emerge una "diagnosi" della crisi politica, sociale e culturale che precede e segue il nazismo e la Seconda guerra mondiale, ovvero della frattura epocale che si consumò in quegli anni in Occidente. Una frattura che viene colta nella sua essenza proprio grazie alla condizione "privilegiata" dell'esilio, che diventa così un (amaro) filtro ermeneutico per la comprensione dell'Occidente. Introduzione di Carlo Altini.

E. Agazzi
C. Manfredi Editore

Glauco Giuliano
Mimesis Edizioni

Glauco Giuliano
Edizioni Torre d'Ercole

Hans Reichenbach
Feltrinelli Editore

Yi-Fu Tuan
The Johns Hopkins University Press

Acclaimed cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers humanity's enduring desire to escape reality— and embrace alternatives such as love, culture, and Disneyworld

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland—all are among the most recent monuments in our efforts to escape the constraints and uncertainties of life—ultimately, those imposed by nature. "What cultural product," Tuan asks, "is not escape?" In his new book, the capstone of a celebrated career, Tuan shows that escapism is an inescapable component of human thought and culture.

Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Editori Riuniti

George Crowder
Polity Press

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George Crowder provides both an accessible introduction to Berlin's ideas and an original contribution to political theory.

Berlin's range of interests and learning was vast but united by a single overarching project: the uncovering of the conceptual roots of twentieth-century totalitarianism. He traces these through three levels of analysis: the distortion of the concept of freedom by thinkers such as Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel and Marx; the scientism of the Enlightenment and irrationalism of the Counter-Enlightenment and romanticism; and moral monism, the idea that all ethical questions can be answered by reference to a single moral law. Against monism, Berlin asserts the claims of value pluralism, which he aligns with a politics of liberal moderation.

In this new assessment, Crowder argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its liberal and pluralist elements. Crowder goes on to suggest how that tension can be resolved by appeal to arguments that go beyond the case actually presented by Berlin but which remain within the spirit of his general outlook.

Karl Löwith
Il Saggiatore

Catherine Chalier
La nuit serveillée

Massimo Mori
Il Saggiatore

Giuseppe Sermonti
Rusconi