Complicity: Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment

by Thomas Docherty

Book Overview

Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows how easy it has been for criticism to become essentially an act of political collaboration with existing governmental power.

The book explores the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786601028
• ISBN13: 9781786601025
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"