A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London…
Derrida's work is controversial, it's interpretation hotly contested. Derrida and an Ethics in Practice offers a new way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and …
Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian 233;migr233;, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figur…
This flexible resource contains lesson plans and worksheets to inspire pupils of poetry and literature. A choice alternative to past exam paper practice.
This flexible resource contains lesson plans and worksheets to inspire pupils of poetry and literature. A choice alternative to past exam paper practice.
It features the first discussion of the recently discovered text 'The Gabriel Revelation' - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. This tablet provides revolutionary paths to the understanding of the historical Jesus and the birth of Christianity. It…
"The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts ... today, the "economy" is on everyone's mind. But what makes this rather opaque concept work? This collection of essays seeks out the answer by exploring contemporary capitalism from a variety of th…
"The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts ... today, the "economy" is on everyone's mind. But what makes this rather opaque concept work? This collection of essays seeks out the answer by exploring contemporary capitalism from a variety of th…
"The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts ... today, the "economy" is on everyone's mind. But what makes this rather opaque concept work? This collection of essays seeks out the answer by exploring contemporary capitalism from a variety of th…
Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. Clearly and thematically structured, covering all Merleau-Ponty's key works and fo…
Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism.
This book uses transcripts from real UK police interviews, investigating previously unexplored and under-explored areas of the process. It illustrates the way in which police and suspects use language and sounds to inform, persuade and communicate with each other. It also looks …
"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out."Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernai…
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berl…
Shows, through close readings of three major novelists, how Modernist fiction developed new ways of expressing thought.
