This new study provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the beginnings of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland.
Re-evaluates the fragments of Duris, Phylarchus and Agatharchides.
Critically investigates contemporary statements of the female body in French literature and philosophy.
Use insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death.
This book is about the concept of historical intermittency in five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Alain Badiou, Francoise Proust, Christian Jambet, Guy Lardreau and Jacques Ranciere.
Shows how ethical subjectivity is not based on individual morals but contemporary culture.
Analyses Deleuze's notion of transcendental and genetic Ideas as conditions of creative thought.
Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophy.
The first systematic treatment of the role of institutions in cosmopolitan theories of distributive justice
Uses Bakhtin's thought to reassess the roles of dialogue, community and democracy in political theory
A critical intervention in liberal theories of multiculturalism.
Shows religion and politics to be a key connecting link between European and global affairs.