Product Description: Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics...read more

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Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of 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 practice a new criticism, whose theoretical foundations lie in a postmodern ethics, ecopolitics, and an austere attention to the radical difficulties of art. Bound together by the cohesive drive of Docherty's intelligence and the coerciveness of the arguments he enlarges about alterity and historicity, Alterities rehabilitates the question of why we bother about art, and proposes new modes of critical engagement with contemporary culture.

Product Description: Big Scary Monster loves to shock his friends. But if he wants to keep them, he will need to change his ways!Big Scary Monster is one misunderstood beastie. He loves to jump out and surprise his friends, but he’s not mean, really...read more

Product Description: This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication...read more

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In this important study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom, author Thomas Docherty argues that the question of freedom lies at the heart of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda, and Jaspers, the author argues the academy’s will to freedom is grounded in study of the ‘eloquence’ that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is, or should be, a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning or meanings of social, political, and ethical freedom.

When a boy finds a young pigeon, half starved, in a derelict warehouse in Glasgow, he names the pigeon Percy and takes him home. He looks after him and even teaches him to fly. Da says that Percy should be set free, but the boy wants him to stay for ever. This atmospheric book tells the story of an unusual friendship.

Product Description: Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism...read more

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Product Description: Magical, wistful illustrations and distinctive prose help narrate the story of Kate, a lighthouse attendant who lives on a small island far out at sea. Day in and day out it rains on the cloudy island, making it perpetually dark and preventing the islanders from seeing the sun or moon...read more

Product Description: One brave little boat is on a journey to discover the seven seas. Setting off into the big, wide world, Little Boat runs into treacherous waters, turbulent tides, and seafaring friends. After all his nautical adventures, our hero finds out that he’s no longer such a little boat...read more

Product Description: A fourth edition of a handbook on tax law for small business, updated to include the new rules and regulations that will arise from the 1996/97 Finance Act. Previously published in 1995.

Product Description: A magical tale about the importance of bedtime stories. In every house, in every bed, A bedtime book was being read...But then, one night, all the animals' bedtime story books start disappearing. One brave rabbit sets out to solve the mystery - and finds that it's a sad little Snatchabook, a small, magical creature who just wants someone to read to him...read more

Product Description: Polly and Neil are back in the second gorgeous children's book from Sunday Times bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan. Perfect for reading aloud and including fun activities based on the story.The boat masts jangled louder and louder...read more