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Le rivoluzioni quantistiche nel racconto di un premio Nobel per la fisica.

Il nuovo quadro dei diritti nell’era della rivoluzione digitale

Ingiustizia ambientale e crisi della politica

Il critico più famoso d’Italia racconta per la prima volta il suo mestiere e la televisione, tra resistenze, cambiamenti e nuove sfide.

Il potere della narrazione nelle relazioni terapeutiche

Come funziona il nostro cervello quando impariamo?

Come evitare errori che possono compromettere la qualità delle cure

What is the human self becoming in the age of daily interaction with digital devices? An unprecedent exploration of the relationship between body, mind and technology in the digital world. In a world where artificial intelligence generates faces, voices, and presences capable of simulating empathy, the digital self explores an anthropological mutation currently underway. Starting from the neuroscience of embodiment and the now classic theory of embodied simulation, Vittorio Gallese constructs a new paradigm for thinking about contemporary subjectivity. From mirror neurons to algorithmic subjectivity, this book traces an original and multidisciplinary itinerary that crosses neuroscience, philosophy, aesthetics, and media theory to rethink the self as an embodied, relational, and technologically modulated reality. The theoretical culmination of the volume is the proposal of a radical aesthetics: a politics of feeling that restores intensity, opacity, and unpredictability to relationships in a world dominated by transparent interfaces and predictive algorithms. At a time when otherness risks becoming a function, and retreating into solitude a project, there is an urgent need to return to thinking about the body, not as nostalgia, but as a generative condition of every possible future. A necessary essay for understanding the metamorphosis of the self in the age of code.

The analysis of a great “immoral” thinker of the twentieth century to address the most thorny issues of our time. In an era marked by fanaticism and obscurantism, Bertrand Russell stands out as a luminous and provocative figure. His extraordinary vision of free and creative man invites us to refl ect on freedom from power, freedom of worship and the importance of critical thinking. Russell proposes an education reform that encourages young people to form their own judgements independently, to think and feel with their own voices, rather than passively accepting the opinions of others. Russell still offers us valuable tools to resist groupthink and conformity. A hundred years later, his legacy continues to inspire and guide new generations, confirming him as one of the most original and lucid thinkers of modernity.

What do 20 words stolen from history reveal about Putin's country? This book is not a cold political analysis, but a glimpse into today's life in Russia. Once upon a time, there were words that described the identity of a population. Sobornost’, the spiritual union between individuals; prostór, the boundless space that attracted and repelled with its immensity; stabìl’nost’, the stability and reliability of a system of government. For centuries, these concepts shaped Russian literature, philosophy, and collective memory. Today, those words speak another language. Gian Piero Piretto explores twenty key words of Russian culture, highlighting their original meaning and showing how they have been reinterpreted and exploited by Putin's propaganda. He dismantles stereotypes and monolithic narratives, compares past and present, and offers an unprecedented portrait of contemporary Russia, beyond ideological manipulation and established clichés. An unpublished portrait of contemporary Russia.