Alain: 2045 books

Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance—when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world.

For thirty years, Alain-G. Gagnon has been one of the world’s leading experts on federalism and multinational democracies. In Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty, he presents an articulate and accessible introduction to the ways in which minority nations have begun to empower themselves in...

A Critical Anthology of Contemporary Ideas View from the Right was originally published in French in 1977, at the time that Alain de Benoist’s GRECE think tank was at the height of its influence. The book consists of a series of essays and profiles of various thinkers and figures who Benoist...

Après 20 mois au pouvoir, qu'en est-il réellement de la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy ? En fait, son style et ses méthodes sont plus français qu'il ne le croit lui-même. Le Consulat est de retour. Il y a chez Nicolas Sarkozy bien des aspects d'un Premier consul contemporain. Certes, il...

L'Europe offre à la France la chance d'acquérir une nouvelle influence, et de forger une nouvelle ambition. Cela n'a rien de chimérique. En effet, l'Europe est, largement, une idée française et, depuis toujours, une histoire française. Notre pays a d'ailleurs donné de grands européens : de...

Ministre d’État, ministre de l’Intérieur, président de la Fédération nationale des Républicains indépendants, Michel Poniatowski est surtout l’ami, le confident, le principal et le plus sûr lieutenant de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Les Français connaissent bien ses « petites phrases »,...

Alain Duhamel part d'un constat : la France politique vit au rythme d'un souverain élu. En fait, l'essentiel du pouvoir y est détenu par lui ou issu de lui. Exemples et portraits à l'appui, cet essai démontre, avec beaucoup d'humour et de clarté, en quoi ce système ultra-présidentiel donne...

What is New Age spirituality? Is it relevant to our twenty-first century experience? Alain Aristides book sets out to illuminate the various paths to spiritual enlightenment. Including short biographies of New Age authors, A Course in Spirituality references materials as contiguous as...

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important...

Dialogues avec le monde des esprits Un père disparu vient rassurer sa femme et sa fille, un enfant tué par un chauffard communique avec ses proches, une femme chantonne à l'oreille du médium la chanson qu'elle fredonnait à sa soeur jumelle... Autant de témoignages qui démontrent la survivance...

Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of...

Impatient to find his place and escape the endless cohort of the damned factory, he combines the odd jobs to make a living: distributor of “Dixan” samples, volunteer in a kibbutz after the Yom Kippur War, a hunting guide in Cameroon without ever having held a gun in his life.Having swapped his...

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in...

Beginning with an overview of the symbolism of creative forces in general, The Phallus first examines the representation of male fertility in such forms as the menhirs or standing stones of prehistoric Europe; the Mahalinga and Svayambhu of India; and the ancient Greek Omphalos. The second part of...