Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation - Softcover

Docherty, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198183585 ISBN 13: 9780198183587

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

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

Alterities is critical reading for those interested in postmodernist theory.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198183585
• ISBN 13: 9780198183587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240