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  • Digitally Divided

    The Impact of Technology on Belief and Societal Polarization

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a critical exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping religious belief, ethical frameworks, and social cohesion. As faith and ideology increasingly migrate to online platforms, the book examines how algorithm-driven content, echo chambers, and decentralized authority structures influence discourse and deepen societal divides. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives ... Read more

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  • Masks and Faces

    Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines

    Edited by Lior Levy, Massimo Leone ...
    Series series Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
    Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.Offering interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives on masks and faces, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Religious Conversion and Identity

    The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

    by Massimo Leone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • On Insignificance

    The Loss of Meaning in the Post-Material Age

    by Massimo Leone ...
    Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Cluster Headache and other Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias

    Edited by Massimo Leone, Arne May ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides essential insights into the current state of knowledge regarding the main aspects of cluster headache and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias. The first chapters focus on classification and clinical features, together with familial and genetic aspects. Relevant animal models and the putative role of key nervous structures as the hypothalamus, brainstem, diencephalon and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Thought-Sign-Symbol

    Cross-Cultural Representations of Religion

    Series Book 71 - Lodz Studies in Language
    This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the Signum-Idea ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Hybrid Face

    Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

    Edited by Massimo Leone ...
    Series series Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
    This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks ... Read more

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  • Why We Believe

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  • Morphing Intelligence

    From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains

    Translated by Carolyn Shread ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of ... Read more

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  • Loving Later Life

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  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

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