{"product_id":"9781350536395-otherworlds-mediterranean-lessons-on-escaping-history","title":"Otherworlds","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMediterranean Lessons On Escaping History\u003cbr\u003eA philosophical guide to contending with the end of the world and how new world or 'otherworlds' can be born using the history of the Mediterranean as inspiration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat can survive the end of the world?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eOtherworlds \u003c\/i\u003ephilosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, nexus of migrations and odysseys, ruins and romances, to depict a world in which the imagination is the only engine of survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter by chapter, Campagna chronicles the existential challenges posed by history and the inventive and radical responses of the people facing the ruin of their world. From the earliest myths with which the inhabitants of the kingdoms around the Mediterranean constructed a shared social reality, the stories of the Mediterranean are dominated by cataclysm and collapse in which fugitive fragments become the building blocks of resilience and renewal. Alexander the Great's cataclysmic conquests seed a cycle of existential romances; pagan philosophers fleeing the fall of Rome give rise to new visions of reality; translators across the Islamic world, Iberia and Italy use stories to bridge the gap between cultures at war and pirates, slaves, renegades and publishers push back the imaginative horizons of human possibility through modernity and beyond. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Campagna's lyrical, novel and expansive work - part history, part philosophy, part love letter to a heritage of seasonal migration and searches for belonging - the challenges of disintegration and destruction are time and again met with the creation of new and radical realities. As rich and various as the philosophy, myths, literature and art of the Mediterranean itself, \u003ci\u003eOtherworlds\u003c\/i\u003e traces the tales of these attempts to reinvent the world - and how, at the most dramatic and decisive junctures of Mediterranean history, it was the ability to set sail for these other worlds which prevailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55125708210550,"sku":"9781350536395","price":56.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350536395-otherworlds-mediterranean-lessons-on-escaping-history","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}