The Five Secrets of James Bond

To unravel the mysteries of his majesty's faithful secret agent, Alyosha Wald Lasowski uses the best techniques of current decoding. From gender studies to postcolonial thought, from popular culture to geopolitics, the author lays bare the mysteries encodedin the twenty-five Bond films. Lasowski even goes so far as to invent the “philoscopic approach,” which lays bare what seems invisible on the screen. From Doctor No in 1962 to No Time to Die in 2021, The Five Secrets of James Bond brings an unusual approach that shows the most famous secret agent in a different light. Alyosha Wald Lasowski is a university professor and teaches political philosophy at Sciences-Po, Lille, in the Master's program "Philosophy, Politics, Economics.” A specialist on André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edouard Glissant, he also writes on music (Le jeu des ritournelles, Gallimard, 2017), painting (Dialogue with Alain Badiou on Art and Pierre Soulages, Cercle d'art, 2019) and cinema. His personal reflections explore the aesthetics of rhythm and the thought of tempo. Author of fifteen books, he is also a journalist and is a columnist on France-Culture, for the program Avis critique. He writes for L'Express in the section, "Ideas."