Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint recently published by Bloomsbury
Podcast – BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – The Later Romantics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, the tragedy and the idealism of the Later Romantics.
Foucault for our time
Slavoj Zizek was once asked to run Slovenia’s MI5. Jennifer Wallace meets a radically chic philosopher with a taste for realpolitik.
The feminine mystique
Sacked by Jacques Lacan, shunned by French universities, denigrated by Alan Sokal, Luce Irigaray is still a star. Jennifer Wallace meets a ‘high priestess of ecriture feminine’