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This book examines modernity itself. A single overarching policy recommendation is defended, namely, that the West ought not to defect from modernity’s core commitments to the sciences, market economics and liberal democracy despite the litany of complaints that have been, and continue to be levelled against it. But in addition to this overarching recommendation, numerous policy suggestions are made. The reader will find discussions as wide-ranging as electoral regimes and judicial procedure, banking regulations and the ethics of a modern civil service. What binds these disparate...

In this study of British novelist John Cowper Powys, Joe Boulter concentrates on the novels Owen Glendower, Porius and Wolf Solent.

EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION

In these essays I do not argue that John Cowper Powys is a postmodernist novelist. Nor do I provide an interpretation of Powys using the techniques of postmodernist literary criticism.

What I do is use some of the analogies between Powys's themes and techniques and the themes and techniques of postmodernist theorists as the basis for interpretations of some of Powys's novels. In other...

In telling the story of the last sixty-five million years, Michael Boulter reveals extraordinary new insights that scientists are only now beginning to understand about the fossil record, the rise and fall of species, and the nature of life....

"Avoiding the pitfalls of the modernist/postmodernist controversy, Boulter goes beyond formalism to situate Beckett s early and mid-career novels on the horizon of understanding. Hermeneutics is brought to bear on Beckett s work in original and previously neglected ways."--Lois Oppenheim, author of The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett s Dialogue with Art

Jonathan Boulter s study argues that Samuel Beckett's novels not only thematize the reading process but in various ways are about the reader and the process of interpretation, or hermeneutics, as well. Building on seminal work by...

In telling the story of the last sixty-five million years, Michael Boulter reveals extraordinary new insights that scientists are only now beginning to understand about the fossil record, the rise and fall of species, and the nature of life....