When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique, few had heard ...
Continue Reading →Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel ...
Continue Reading →For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As ...
Continue Reading →Quantum electrodynamics – or QED for short – is the theory that explains how light and electrons interact, and in doing so illuminates ...
Continue Reading →First English translation of Einstein’s theory of relativity. In this work Einstein intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into ...
Continue Reading →Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. ...
Continue Reading →By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a ...
Continue Reading →Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on ...
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