First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.
First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text,...
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable....
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human prog...
The status of so-called personality disorders as reflecting inner pathology is currently questioned – they are viewed, even by some psychiatrists, as stigmatizing and not properly falling within the remit of psychiatry. Yet personality disorders remain obstinately present world-wide and are associated with aberrant behaviors that sometimes lead those afflicted to fall into the net of the criminal justice system. This book interrogates the nature of personality disorders and will appeal to anyone for whom the varieties of human personality hold a fascination. It starts from the premise that...
The status of so-called personality disorders as reflecting inner pathology is currently questioned – they are viewed, even by some psychiatrists, a...
