Complicity - Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. He is the author of fourteen books, including Universities at War (2014), Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (2012), Aesthetic Democracy (2006), Criticism and Modernity (1999), Alterities (1996) and After Theory (1996). Klappentext Thomas Docherty advances the invention and development of a new critical theory. This book offers a broad historical sweep, ranging from an exploration of wartime collaboration through tocontemporary surveillance society. Zusammenfassung Thomas Docherty advances the invention and development of a new critical theory. This book offers a broad historical sweep! ranging from an exploration of wartime collaboration through tocontemporary surveillance society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction: On Being a Bastard / 2. Diplomacy and Law / 3. Accountancy; or, on Being a Bureaucrat / 4. Skin in the Game / 5. On Democratic Responsibility / 6. 'Open the Doors!'; or, On Commitment and Reserve / Bibliography / Index

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Docherty
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781786601018
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-101-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society; Off the Fence: Morality, Polit; Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society; Off the Fence: Morality, Polit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory