By: Mark Kingwell

Desire seeks the Real but is trapped in the Symbolic order of language and representation.

By: Tim Carmody

“It is not at all with ideas that one makes poetry. It is with words.”

By: Mark Kingwell

He tracked the “lines of flight” that ideas can take up against power.

By: Joshua Glenn

Guerrilla street theater in Paris, c. 1830.

By: Joshua Glenn

Charming vs. Creepy is the battle of our age.

By: Ingrid Schorr

To think, to heal, and to write.

By: Mark Kingwell

His was a hermeneutic approach to phenomen­ology.

By: Mark Kingwell

By: Mark Kingwell

He invented cultural criticism.

By: Joshua Glenn

In a 1945 essay, the French-Jewish author, philosopher, and journalist ALBERT CAMUS (1913-60) asked, “What is a man who revolts?” His answer: “First of all, it’s a man who says no. But if he refuses, […]

By: Lucy Sante

A great theorist and taxonomist of eroticism.

By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.