Député de la Moselle, plusieurs fois ministre et chef de gouvernement sous la IVe République, Robert Schuman (1886-1963) exerça aussi les fonctions de président de la première assemblée parlementaire européenne qui lui donna officiellement le titre de « Père de l'Europe » en 1960.Fervent catholique, il s'engagea en politique après avoir songé à la vie religieuse. Un ami lui prédit sa vocation de « saint en veston ». Il resta célibataire toute sa vie, entièrement con...

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues that they lead to burnout and self-absorption and that we must redevelop contemplative practices which slow us down and open us up. He has brought to his thought forms of deep cosmopolitanism developed from both Zen Buddhism and a renewed Romanticism.This book is the first critical introd...

From Mark Frost, co-creator of the landmark series, The Secret History of Twin Peaks tells the story that millions of fans spent twenty-five years waiting for . . .The Secret History of Twin Peaks enlarges the world created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, placing the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into a vastly layered, wide-ranging history.Beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark, Frost takes readers through the surreal, f...

From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for more than 25 long years.A vastly layered, wide-ranging history that deepens the mysteries of the iconic town in ways that will thrill disciples of the original series, and will prep fans for the Showtime series like nothing else out there.Four original TWIN PEAKS cast members— Kyle MacLachlan, Russ Tamblyn, Michael Horse, and David Patr...

Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and literary scholars to provide a new social and c...