Set against a backdrop of debates about the so-called 'end of history', 'the death of the subject' and 'the end of art', as well as the various forms of the 'post' that became prevalent in the late tw
Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste?Is there a drone above you now?Are you living in a no-fly zone?What is the role of masculinity in the 'war on terror'?And why do so many liberals say they love
Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste?Is there a drone above you now?Are you living in a no-fly zone?What is the role of masculinity in the 'war on terror'?And why do so many liberals say they love
How did the later medieval kings of Scotland manipulate their power and alliances after the Wars of Independence?Power and Propaganda is a thematic reflection on the political history of late medieval
"Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject" (1987) was a pathbreaking investigation of the relations between psychoanalysis, feminism and modernism in Woolf's writings. This volume of selected ess
This book celebrates the emergence of the Scots and Scotland from centuries of poverty and backwardness as the nineteenth century saw Scottish locomotives and ships working on land and sea throughout
What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about
This volume focuses on a century of seismic change in the political, religious and cultural life of Scotland. It's major theme is the politics of union and multiple monarchy following the creation of
In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes' 1953 book Wri
The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice o
Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland from the United Kingd
