Alterities

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.