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The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in …
Unjust Justice
Such is the praise for Unjust Justice by the eminent French philosopher Chantal Delsol. Now available in paperback this book offers a devastating critique of progressives’ …
Writing and Victorianism
Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the …
Visual Art and Projects of the Self
Writing and Fantasy
Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional …
The Becoming of the Body
Following a long tradition of objectification, 20th-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its …
Writing and Race
Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include …
Visual Art and Self-Construction
Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self Asks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help …
The Event Universe
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates …
Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida
Explores the deep affinity between Proust's textual experimentation and the revolutionary philosophical interventions of Derrida and Deleuze Reads Proust's relevance to continental …
The Figure of This World
Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. He shows instead that it engages in …
Writing and Cinema
This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at …