Based on the core components of Religious Studies and Theology degrees, it is designed to function as the main text for beginning students and for use throughout their studies.
The book focuses on the thought of twenty-four mainly European and North American thinkers, ranging historically from the Renaissance to postmodernism.
Introduces students to key figures in critical theory, with individual chapters on: Lacan; Althusser; Barthes; Derrida; Levinas; Kristeva; Irigaray;... Læs mere
A reference guide to British film directors covering both contemporary and historically important figures.
This is a study of the British state’s generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War.
Explores the implications of Derrida’s death for the future of critical thought itself; includes chapters which engage with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies.
This book places Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze in conversation with one another, which results in a new (joyful) way of thinking about death.
In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period.
Deleuze and Politics brings together some of the most important Deleuze scholars in the field today to explore and explain Deleuze’s political philosophy.
This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought.
This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.
An analysis of the nature of contemporary democratic theory and the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics.