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Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acéphale. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary …
Tantric Love: Feeling vs Emotion – Golden Rules To Make Love Easy
What happens when suddenly the wind changes and the loving connection between two partners is disrupted for hours or even days? Why is love associated with ups and downs? The …
This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, François Jullien challenges the …
From Being to Living : a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought
This new English translation of François Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to …
Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters
Giovanni Andrea Gilio's "Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters" (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key …
The Absence of Myth
For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a …
Refusal of the Shadow
In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal …
Surrealism and Cinema
Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the …
Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist
Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before …
How To Play Guitar For Children Book 1: The Best Way To Learn And Play
How To Play Guitar For Children - Book 1So, your child wants to play guitar and you want to teach him/her?The only problem is, you haven't got a clue about where to start or how to …
The Leviathan's Choice
The death penalty is one of the most contentious issues of our time and has generated an astonishing amount of arguments both for and against capital punishment. Out of this …