Federico Campagna

What can survive the end of the world? In Otherworlds, philosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, a nexus of migrations and odysseys, ruins and romances, to depict a world in which the imagination is the only engine of survival. Chapter by chapter, Campagna chronicles the existential challenges posed by history and the inventive and...

Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life....

We take for granted that only certain kinds of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as ‘reality’. But in fact, ‘reality’ varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think, and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and...