Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation - Softcover

Docherty, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198183585 ISBN 13: 9780198183587

Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from popular to art-film, and with political theory from Marx to Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Badiou, Thomas Docherty intervenes in all the major contemporary cultural debates to propose and practice a new criticism, whose theoretical foundations lie in a postmodern ethics, ecopolitics, and an austere attention to the radical difficulties of art. Bound together by the cohesive drive of Docherty's intelligence and the coerciveness of the arguments he enlarges about alterity and historicity, Alterities rehabilitates the question of why we bother about art, and proposes new modes of critical engagement with contemporary culture.

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Thomas Docherty is Professor of English Literature in the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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Alterities is critical reading for those interested in postmodernist theory.

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Alterities marks an advance to a new stage in critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino; with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary; with cinema from popular to art-film; and with political theory from Marx to Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Badiou. Thomas Docherty intervenes in all the major contemporary cultural debates to propose and practise a new criticism, whose theoretical foundations lie in a postmodern ethics, ecopolitics, and an austere attention to the radical difficulties of art.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198183585
• ISBN 13: 9780198183587
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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