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Apocalypse Unbound

Jonathan Rée on Malcolm Bull, Seeing Things Hidden. The metaphysics and politics of hiding—apocalyptic visions, sanguine or saturnine.

Philosophy for Philosophy’s Sake

“In the 1970s, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari produced three imposing books: Anti-Oedipus (1972), Kafka (1975) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). With their raucous mockery of Hegelianism and Marxism, psychoanalysis and structuralism, these manifestoes for ‘delirium’ and ‘schizo-analysis’ were meant to be infuriating rather than ingratiating. They were . . .” read more

Sartre’s Freud

“John Huston—the Hollywood director who made The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)—was a vivid and confident impietist, and his unrespectable success was an important element in the idea of ‘America’ which entranced his distant contemporary, Jean-Paul Sartre. The McCarthyite columnist Frank Conniff was . . .” read more