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Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus's essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe.

Paul Lafargue spells out with unrivaled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous.

A vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel.

Virginia Woolf's reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world.

An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.

A unique combination of poetry and photography, Hungry Ghosts is a thrilling evocation of the disturbing visions and the yearnings for a world beyond that have fed both ancient and modern understandings of the afterlife.

Justice in Palestine is an essential work by one of the twentieth century¿s most powerful and authoritative voices.

in English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another

Wilfully Blind is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change it.

Two Hours is an exceptional novel. Witty, perceptive, and profoundly humane, this is the work of a writer at the height of her powers.

Orgasm offers readers an unforgettable mental experience as Saatchi debunks some of the modern world¿s most fondly held delusions.

This volume collects all of Edward Said's never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author.

A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.

Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected or suppressed by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries. Formidably erudite without ever drifting into dry scholasticism, Resistance to Christianity ranges from the origins of the Bible to the fraught doctrinal controversies of the fourth century to the Levellers and Jansenists of the early modern period, thereby revealing the too-little-known history that lies behind the modern world¿s theological horizons.Resistance to Christianity is far more, however, than a study of religious movements and ideas; indeed, Vaneigem is bracingly unapologetic in his ambition ¿to examine the resistance that the inclination to natural liberty has, for nearly twenty centuries, opposed to . . . Christian oppression.¿ The story of how men and women have again and again resisted the authoritarian implications of religious orthodoxy is, above all, a crucial strand of the history of human freedom.Bill Brown¿s translation makes available in English a major work by one of the preeminent thinkers of our time. A remarkable feat of historical scholarship that deserves to be widely read, Resistance to Christianity represents radical thought at its most exciting, incisive, and compelling.

A towering figure in the worlds of literature, cinema, and visual art, Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative artists of the twentieth century. In this collection of brief--often aphoristic--meditations, he reflects on the nature of beauty itself. Ranging over painters, poets, and musicians, Cocteau offers brilliant insights into the essential loneliness of the artistic vocation. As well as throwing new light on the author's own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory

Hans Hartung was one of the twentieth century's greatest artists. His works mark him out as an outstanding practitioner of abstract painting, but he was also a highly perceptive commentator on a wide variety of artists and artistic styles. In this volume, the distinguished art historian Thomas Schlesser--currently the Director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation--gathers together Hartung's most illuminating remarks on his predecessors and contemporaries, as well as on the creative process more generally. Hans Hartung in His Own Words will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure in the cultural life of the last century.

We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a 'before' and an 'after.' The ongoing transition from an information economy to an economy based in the workings of the brain and the mind has radical implications for human freedom and creativity, both of which are under threat from a rapacious, neurologically-oriented form of capitalism. Such moments require new languages in order for the unnamed, the unsayable, and the misunderstood to become known. This is the task taken on by Warren Neidich's Glossary of Cognitive Activism, now appearing in an expanded and fully revised fourth edition. Each of its entries--which range in topic from the central nervous system and brain-computer interfaces to ChatGPT and conceptual art--explicates a key term in contemporary culture. The cumulative effect is astonishing: while every entry can profitably be read in isolation, the Glossary as a whole amounts to a brilliant account of the material brain's entanglement with its surrounding environment. For Neidich the human brain is far more than grey matter encased in a skull: it is profoundly integrated with the social, political, and cultural phenomena that constitute the world in which we live. For this reason, human cognition is profoundly vulnerable to the new despotism that is seeking in various ways to reshape it, but it also has the capacity to serve as the site of potent acts of resistance. Forging connections between such apparently disparate domains as neuroscience, ecology, political economy, and aesthetics, Neidich's Glossary restores human cognition to its rightful status: not as the passive object of technological interventions or reductive theorizing, but as the starting point for any viable form of egalitarian and liberatory politics.

James Baldwin's speech delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society.

Depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.

John Berger¿s essay is an extended reflection on shit as an emblem of what it means to be human.

The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

A highly distinctive artistic collaboration and a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and physicality.

Thomas Schlesser¿s biography, which draws upon the considerable body of written material that Anna-Eva Bergman left behind, at long last enables us to understand this extraordinary artist in all the complexity of her character and the dramatic circumstances of her life.

An international all-star cast of thinkers, artists, and policy makers joins forces for a transparent, united, democratic Europe.

Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.