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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.

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.

A fictional conversation written by Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of the French Enlightenment.

A collection of dialogues between the English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti in one slim, thought-provoking volume.

Dora Malech's latest anthology of poems written in the last decade and appearing for the first time in a single volume.

In this collection of essays that arikha wrote between 1965 and 1994, he expounds on art, technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day.

An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming that social change emerges through ordinary people's everyday lives and struggles.

This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on ¿mechanical¿ readers who are having a disastrous impact on the world of letters.

In 1931 Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but he left behind a remarkable testament.

Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t.

Baron d¿Holbach¿s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe.