Li Zhi’s exasperation with the corruption, greed, and superficiality of the powerbrokers in his society fueled his rebellious writing.

According to the extramission theory of vision, our eyes send out beams of elemental fire that spread, nerve like, to create the visual field.

For a younger generation trying to understand Marxism, the best way in may be: vampirism.

Otto Weininger's only book, Sex & Character, is a misogynist, anti-Semitic screed masquerading as philosophy. Yet it was enormously influential in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

In the Middle Ages, the legend of Aristotle and Phyllis exemplified the “Power of Women” trope.

Margaret Fuller was one of the most-read Americans of the mid-nineteenth century, but then men started to edit her for posterity.