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  • FOUR PHILOSOPHERS AND THE BOMB
    ALBERTO CASTELLI / GIUNIA GATTA / MICAELA LATINI / FRANCESCO RASCHI
    In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Günther Anders) understood atomic warfare. With a chapter devoted to the philosophical ideas of each thinker and how they understood and interpreted war, the authors analyze the histori...

    $640.00

  • THE LABYRINTH OF LOVE
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence a...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PEACE DISCOURSE IN EUROPE, 1900-1945
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought, bu...

    $1,240.00

  • LOVE, DESPAIR, AND MODERNISM IN LITERATURE
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist studies: the persistent yet transformed presence of love. While academia has exhaustively examined modernism through lenses of nihilism, disillusionment, and existential silence, the romantic impulse threading through these seemingly barren landscapes remains largel...

    $1,240.00

  • FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevsky’s humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature. Rather than approaching Dostoevsky through the lens of national character or the so-called Russian spirit, this book engages in a sustained dialogue with his work to illuminate the moral and psychological complex...

    $1,240.00

  • THE SELF ON TRIAL
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction and studies it through a psychological reading. It is evident that the century has produced self-destructive characters whose behaviors and choices are an ultimate form of consummation – primitive, elementary, and inexplicable. Why cannot Prufrock ask the overw...

    $1,240.00

  • LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviors from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using, among others, Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs some 20 literary texts and presents a work of ...

    $1,160.00