Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time an overview of FreudOCOs work which enables the reader to see quickly where and in which texts Freud develops his main ideas. This book is now the definitive guide to the content of FreudOCOs texts: whatOCOs there and where to find it."
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to...
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully considered appraisal of McLuhan's contribution to cultural theory, which may be even more pertinent now, in the early twenty-first century, than when he originally formulated it in the 1950s and '60s'
Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, Loughborough University
Why is McLuhan important? What use can we make of his approach to the media today? In this insightful critical introduction, McLuhan's...
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully con...
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully considered appraisal of McLuhan's contribution to cultural theory, which may be even more pertinent now, in the early twenty-first century, than when he originally formulated it in the 1950s and '60s'
Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, Loughborough University
Why is McLuhan important? What use can we make of his approach to the media today? In this insightful critical introduction, McLuhan's...
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully con...
Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille's ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that were extraordinarily prescient. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his...
Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille's ideas are now being grasped in the E...
