The Raymond Tallis Reader - Hardcover

Tallis, R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333772717 ISBN 13: 9780333772713

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

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The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary. From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of thinking for the twenty-first century.

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RAYMOND TALLIS trained as a doctor at the University of Oxford and St. Thomas's hospital. Since 1987 he has been Professor and a consultant physician in Health Care of the Elderly in Salford. Over the last fifteen years, he has written extensively outside of medicine. He has published short stories and poetry and been (?) for his critiques of post-Saussurean thought, his reflections on art and science and his discussions of the philosophy of mind. He was recently described in The Times Education Supplement as 'one of the most intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene'. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Hull in 1997 for his contributions to literary scholarship.

MICHAEL GRANT is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1982) and Dead Ringers (1997).

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333772717
• ISBN 13: 9780333772713
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412
• Herausgeber: Grant M.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Springer Palgrave Macmillan; buchhandel-buch@springer.com; ; Tiergartenstr. 17; Heidelberg; 69121; Deutschland