Product Description: Marx’s Fate is an intellectual biography of Marx that combines historical, textual and psychological analyses to provide major new insights into the philosopher’s writings and development.

Traces the Bohemian movement in late nineteenth-century France, looks at key individuals, including Baudelaire, Verlaine, Satie, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, and Breton, and discusses the characteristics of the movement (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of art...read more

Product Description: One of the major themes running through this volume in the Library of the History of Ideas, is the relationship between society and the individual in modern thinking. Two articles deal with Emile Durkheim (and come to different conclusions about him), two focus on late nineteenth-century liberals who sought to bring liberalism closer to doctrines of social reform, while another three centre on German-speaking philosophers -important figures in contemporary debates about culture andhow it ought to be interpreted...read more