The list of new acquisitions for the Biblioteca di Filosofia for the month of April is now available on Minerva. Newly acquired volumes and the latest issues of serials are temporarily displayed on the exhibition stand in the basement, where they can be freely consulted and borrowed.
Among last month’s acquisitions, we highlight:
- Works devoted to the role of women in philosophy, history and society: from the critique of power structures and gender stereotypes (Stili di volontà radicale) to the proposal for an ecofeminism opposed to the oppression of both women and the planet (Il femminismo o la morte), to the collection Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America, which looks at female figures often excluded from the traditional philosophical canon and historical narratives of philosophy.
- A small colleciton of studies on luxury (Il tempo del lusso; Elogio del lusso, ovvero l'utilità dell'inutile; Luxury & digital: the new frontiers of luxury; Luxury philosophy), observed as a complex phenomenon combining aesthetics, culture, emotion and society, outside of a solely economic or material dimension.
- New art catalogs and illustrated volumes: from the work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Gordon Matta-Clark: works and collected writings) to a history of trompe l'oeil (Le trompe-l'oeil, de 1520 à nos jours), to the last two volumes of Michel Pastoureau's series on the cultural history of colors: Pink and Black.
- A new bilingual edition (French-English) of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835-1840), which nearly two hundred years later still addresses topical issue of contemporary democracies, such as the balance of power, freedom of the press, the role of citizens, and the risks of tyranny of the majority.
