Mimesis International (2025)

Mimesis International is a publishing house in the humanities, launched in 2013 by the same group behind Éditions Mimésis and Mimesis Edizioni. Like these other imprints, it is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach towards research in the humanities, while maintaining a keen interest in philosophy. It is committed to supporting independent thought that, cutting across the traditional discipli

nes, opens up to uncharted areas of knowledge as well as to non-Western perspectives. Drawing from an ever growing network of universities and cultural centres, with which the publishing group has for many years closely collaborated, Mimesis International thus aims to extend the reach of its connections across Europe and beyond. Spurred on by this cosmopolitan spirit, Mimesis International publishes its texts in English and, in the case of its academic journals, with multilingual contributions. History

Founded in 1987, Mimesis Edizioni has since become one of the leading Italian publishers in the humanities, with a catalogue comprising more than 4,000 titles. As well as collaborating with almost all universities in Italy, effectively functioning as a University press, Mimesis Edizioni has also published and translated in Italian some of the most prominent international thinkers: to name a few, Theodor Adorno, Antonin Artaud, Etienne Balibar, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Roberto Esposito, Michel Foucault, José Ortega y Gasset, Felix Guattari, Martin Heidegger, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Emanuele Severino, Simone Weil, María Zambrano and Slavoj Žižek. Having closely collaborated with academics outside of Italy since its inception, in 1999 the group behind Mimesis Edizioni formed the imprint Éditions Mimésis, publishing several cultural magazines and academic texts for the Francophone world.

06/10/2025

Following Italy’s unification in 1861, the new state faced the complex task of achieving political, administrative and cultural cohesion, which also required a unified body of knowledge about the national territory and its natural environment. This book explores how knowledge of Italian nature was produced, circulated, and institutionalised in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of the broader nationbuilding project, and how it contributed to the symbolic and material construction of the nation. Scientists played a crucial role in articulating a naturalistic unity of the peninsula, mapping its resources, and defining the idea of a distinct ‘Italian’ landscape. Through a critical analysis of scientific practices, actors, and institutions, the study reveals how Italian nature served as a symbol of national identity, an instrument of political legitimacy, and a means of shaping and consolidating a shared vision of Italy as Il Bel Paese – an image that remains deeply embedded in the country’s cultural imagination today.

Zoe Lauri, "The Nature of the Risorgimento. Science, Environment and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Italy".

29/09/2025

Labour shapes contemporary life not only as an activity or institution, but as a mode of thought — a framework that organises time, structures society, and defines value. This book examines labour as a political force that produces subjectivity and sustains social legitimacy, moving beyond its conventional economic definitions. It develops a critical method to trace labour’s conceptual metamorphoses, analyse its contemporary crises, and open space for alternative imaginaries. In the age of algorithmic governance, fractured subjectivities, and performative selfhood, this is an invitation to pause: not to reject labour, but to rethink its centrality, trace its boundaries, and approach its transformations as a site of struggle, critique, and possibility.

Nicolò Maria Ingarra, "The Critique of Labour in the Neoliberal Era. On the Metamorphoses of a Concept between Pathology and Power".

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