Political Fictions
MICHAEL WILDING
Reader in English, University ofSydney
Political Fictions
explores a cenual preoccupation in the fiction of the last
100 years - the political. Unlike recent Marxist approaches to literature,
which have moved into the sociology of literature or Marxist aesthetics, the
book
is
a work of literary criticism.
It
examines the way in which writers
exploring radical politics simultaneously explore radical literary possibilities,
and considers in detail works by Twain, London, D.H. Lawrence, Koestler,
Orwell and William Morris. $25.00
The Power ofBabel
A Study of Logophilia
MICHEL PIERSSENS
Professor ofFrench, University ofMichigan
Focusing on the work of.five 'logophiles,' this study deals with writers
(Mallarme, de Saussure, Roussel, Wolfson and Brisset) who were convinced
for various reasons and in different ways, that linguistic signs contain hidden
meanings different from those arbiuarily associated with them by linguistic
convention. In comparing these writers Michel Pierssens suesses the
fundamental similarity of their experience of language and their 'logophilia'
as an obsessional manifestation of language itself as a love-object. $20.00
Contemporary Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique
10SEF BLEICHER
Department oJSociology, Glasgow College of Technology
Contemporary Hermeneutics
reveals the profound impact this philosophy is
having on a wide range of intellectual pursuits, and analyses selections from
the works of five major writers in the field: Betti, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Apel
and Habermas, which present the main debates going on within this new
and challenging field. $28.00, paper $14.00
Rousseau and Weber
A Study in the Theory of Legitimacy
J.G.
MERQUIOR
Until recently, Visiting Professor, Kings College, London
This book describes and assesses the contribution
to
the discussion of
political legitimacy made by these rwo major social theorists. $37 .50
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