Critics of the Twentieth Century
Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics
1st Edition
By Bill Readings
April 25, 1991
The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work ...
Deleuze and Guattari
1st Edition
By Ronald Bogue
July 26, 1989
The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation. This is the first book-length study of their works in English, one that provides an overview of their thought and of ...
F.R. Leavis
1st Edition
By Michael Bell
November 03, 1988
First published in 1988. Leavis's examples and preoccupations still largely underlie the teaching of English literature in the universities and he remains the most substantial embodiment of the liberal humanist conception of criticism with its insistence on a 'canon' of on personal judgement within...