Bøker av Thomas Docherty

Leila loves bright colours but finds the shadows a little scary. That's until she meets Moon Girl, whose paint pot full of moonlight brings the night time world to life.

Joe loves Wild things, but can't find any in the city he lives in. When the Wild invites him to explore the night-time city, he is going to learn that nature can be found just about everywhere.

Drawing on Julian Benda's famous Treason of the Intellectuals, this book exposes the damaging impact of market-driven ideology on the institution of the University, and calls for a reassertion of the values of knowledge-seeking, democracy and justice. -- .

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.

There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition. This book analyses the position, and argues for the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the march.

Aesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom.

This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition.

This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.