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The constitutionalisation of the European Union has been a major goal of European politics from the late 1980s onwards. This book focuses on fundamental rights protection, the implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and legal conflicts between the European Court of Justice and national constitutional courts.

Taking J.W. von Goethe's morphological and poetic thought as matrix, this volume presents eighteen articles by contributors coming from philosophy, art history, history, mathematics, demography and architecture focusing on Goethe's approach to science and art, to question and strengthen nowadays epistemological paradigm and contemporary aesthetics.

To what extent is form of our life fixed, that is there a form of life or forms of life? How does this bear on the nature of experience? These are two Wittgensteinian questions in need of clarification. This title sheds light on a much exploited but rarely analysed topic in Wittgenstein scholarship while addressing central themes of philosophy.

Suitable for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics, this title covers a range of issues in semantics and pragmatics such as presuppositions, reference, lexical meaning, discourse relations and information structure, negation, and metaphors.

The book comprises 12 original articles dealing with the topic of the Self from several philosophical perspectives like phenomenology, analytical philosophy and in dialogue with other scientific areas such as psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry.

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886-87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L'esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky happened on the verge of nihilism. Nietzsche announced the death of God, whereas Dostoevsky warned against the danger of atheism. This book describes the double encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Following the chronological thread offered by Nietzsche's correspondence, the author provides a detailed analysis of Nietzsche's engagement with Dostoevsky from the very beginning of his discovery to the last days before his mental breakdown. The second part of this book aims to dismiss the wide-spread and stereotypical reading according to which Dostoevsky foretold and criticized in his major novels some of Nietzsche's most dangerous and nihilistic theories. In order to reject such reading, the author focuses on the following moral dilemma: If God does not exist, is everything permitted?

This book discusses values and the exercise of practical rationality. The main feature of the research is the multiplicity of approaches of the exercise of practical rationality and the consideration of different spheres of values, that is the ethical, political and aesthetic ones.

All the chapters in this volume somehow and quite diversely, directly or indirectly, address the relation of Wittgenstein's philosophy, or at least of Wittgenstein- inspired philosophical thought, with scepticism, here generally envisaged as a many-sided tradition and not as a uniform and once for all established theoretical posture.