VILLANAS EN LA FICCIÓN: UN LIBRO QUE ALGUIEN DEBERÍA ESCRIBIR

Hace muchos años, una editorial me ofreció la oportunidad de publicar un libro sobre la figura de la mujer fatal, dirigido a un público general. No puedo recomendar lo suficiente los dos libros de Bram Dijkstra Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (1986) y Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality […]

ASSHOLES, VILLAINS, AND THE CURRENT WAR IN UKRAINE

One of experts interviewed in the collective volume edited by psychologist Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity (2020; originally Psychologie de la Connerie, 2018; trans. Liesl Schillinger), to which I devoted my post of 4 March, was moral philosopher Aaron James. Having now read his splendid monograph Assholes: A Theory (2012), I would like to […]