Alterities: criticism, history, representation

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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 attent…

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Full title :Alterities : criticism, history, representation / Thomas Docherty.

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Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 222 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198183585, 9780198183587, 0198183577, 9780198183570
oclc:ocm33132592
LC Classification:PN98.S6
Dewey Decimal:801/.95

Introduction: Criticism between Terror and Love -- 1. The Modern Thing: Metaphor and the Event of Representation -- 2. The Ethics of Alterity: Postmodern Character -- 3. Agency and Understanding -- 4. Incipient Postmodernisms -- 5. Ana- -- 6. Initiations, Tempers, Seductions -- 7. Discourse and Figure: The Resistance of/to Cinema -- 8. Cultural Politics and Postmarxism -- 9. Love, Truth, Alterity.

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Altérité (philosophie) -- Dans la litté… critical theories (dialectical critique… Critical theory Criticism Criticisme Critique Kritik Kritische Theorie Literatuurkritiek Postmoderne Postmodernisme Théorie critique