Marie-Alain Couturier, 1897-1954

This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially o...

Alain Badiou is one of the world’s most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in deb...

Alain Locke (1885–1954) was the first African American Rhodes Scholar (1907–1910) who received a PhD in philosophy from Harvard (1918), and he was the intellectual architect of the...