Almost a half-century after Yayoi Kusama debuted her landmark installation 'Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field' (1965) in New York, the work remains challenging and unclassifiable. Jo Applin looks at the installation in detail and places it in the context of subsequent art pr…
"Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, b…
Looks at the forces that helped defeat communism in Eastern Europe, including Solidarity and Charter 77, a group of Czech intellectuals who demanded that their government obey its own laws.
Europe after Derrida: crisis and potentiality
Is Europe's crisis merely a financial one? By revisiting Derrida's diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, they simultaneously propose a new direction for Europe, and an alternative response to today's crisis.
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debor…
Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned…
Flakhelfer – das waren Jugendliche vor allem der Jahrgänge 1926 bis 1928, die in den letzten Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs noch eingezogen wurden, um die Niederlage NS-Deutschlands weiter hinauszuzögern. Manch ein führender Kopf der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der dieser Generat…
This survey provides an indispensable guide to current political and social issues in contemporary Britain. It describes and reviews a broad range of current social attitudes derived from extensive nationwide interviews. This report summarises and interprets data from the most r…
