Alterities
Subtitle: criticism, history, representation
By: Thomas Docherty.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Criticism.; Critical theory.
Description: 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 attention to the radical difficulties of art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index.