Charles Thorpe: 3 books

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position...

In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm’s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection...

Les œuvres littéraires médiévales restent, pour la plupart, méconnues du public cultivé, qui les considère volontiers comme un domaine réservé aux érudits et aux spécialistes. C'est là une situation d'autant plus regrettable et paradoxale qu'on sait assez l'attirance, voire la fascination,...