Alter ego

From Karl Marx to Wyndham Lewis, this book examines Max Stirner’s influence on the modern manifesto. Max Stirner has long proven to be an elusive figure at the fringes of...

Ein facettenreicher Blick auf zentrale Fragen zum letzten Abschnitt des Lebens. Immer wieder wird die Religion herangezogen, wenn der Mensch Antworten auf existentielle F...

Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero’s otherness and empowers its wearers to ...

Garth Brooks was the best-selling country artist of the 1990s. Actually, he was the best-selling artist of the ‘90s period. So why did he close out that triumphant decade by t...

This chapter presents an interview that took place at Terence Davies's home in Mistley, Essex, on October 16, 2012. Topics discussed include the influence of T. S. Eliot's The Four...

As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history o...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian...

The first of the book’s next three chapters that deal with concepts of Bose by which he sought to challenge Freud in their letters, chapter 4 addresses Bose’s signature theory of o...