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Critics of the Twentieth Century

15 Series Titles


Introducing Lyotard Art and Politics

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

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

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...

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