Thomas Docherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 362465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Docherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Docherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOCHERTY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics
From post-truth politics to 'no-platforming' on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the col…
The Logic of 'But: Quarrels, Literature and Democracy
This paper looks at intrinsic disputation within proposition, and specifically within propositions that offer a moderated version of the freedom of speech and expression. It begins from a consideration of what is at stake in Othello's 'Rude am I in my speech', a rhetorical gesture that frames an act of great eloquence, and in which the eloquence serves to formulate a quarrel by ostensibly resolving it. This example reveals that there is a conflic…
The boiled frog and the dodo
In his excellent ‘What’s happening to our universities?’ proposition paper, Ben R. Martin cogently and persuasively outlines some of the key changes that have happened in the last few decades to th
Nonviolence unbound
Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency
This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political…
Aesthetic Democracy
Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics. The author argues for a way of outwitting this potentially dangerous struggle of east and west…
Without and Beyond Compare
Without and Beyond Compare
Newman, Ireland, and Universality
Research Article| February 01 2004 Newman, Ireland, and Universality Thomas Docherty Thomas Docherty Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 73–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-1-73 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Docherty; Newman, Ireland, and Universality. boundary 2 1 February 2004; 31 (1): 73–92. doi: https://doi.org/10…
One
“One” argues that the structural problem of the relation of zero to one has always been a presiding concern in Miller's work. It shows what is at stake in the problematic figure of the zero through a philosophical consideration of foundations for criticism, and relates this thinking to the issue of the foundational grounds for the historical event. Using the literary examples of Joyce and of Wyss, and the philosophy of Pascal, de Man and Frege, t…
Potential European Democracy
For a New Empiricism
After Theory
This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory – the intellectual and his or her knowledge – has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection. After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under…
The Lyotard Reader: A review
Criticism, history, Foucault
Foucault has had an enormous influence on criticism in recent times, most especially in the development of the ‘New Historicism’, partly theorised by Hayden White and practised by critics such as Greenblatt, Davis, Tennenhouse and many others.’ This kind of criticism has now begun to supercede Derridean deconstruction as a kind of radical and theoretical mode of critique. Edward Said offers a rationale for this ‘conflict of the faculties between …
After Theory: Post Modernism/Post Marxism
On Modern Authority: The Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 to the Present Day
Reading (Absent) Character: Towards a Theory of Characterization in Fiction
Jeffrey J. Williams, How to be an Intellectual (New York: (Fordham University Press, 2014)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Jeffrey J. Williams, How to be an Intellectual (New York: (Fordham University Press, 2014)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Reading (Absent) Character: Towards a Theory of Characterization in Fiction
On Modern Authority: The Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 to the Present Day
The Lyotard Reader: A review
Criticism, history, Foucault
Foucault has had an enormous influence on criticism in recent times, most especially in the development of the ‘New Historicism’, partly theorised by Hayden White and practised by critics such as Greenblatt, Davis, Tennenhouse and many others.’ This kind of criticism has now begun to supercede Derridean deconstruction as a kind of radical and theoretical mode of critique. Edward Said offers a rationale for this ‘conflict of the faculties between …
After Theory: Post Modernism/Post Marxism
After Theory
This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory – the intellectual and his or her knowledge – has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection. After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under…
For a New Empiricism
Potential European Democracy
Newman, Ireland, and Universality
Research Article| February 01 2004 Newman, Ireland, and Universality Thomas Docherty Thomas Docherty Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 73–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-1-73 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Docherty; Newman, Ireland, and Universality. boundary 2 1 February 2004; 31 (1): 73–92. doi: https://doi.org/10…
One
“One” argues that the structural problem of the relation of zero to one has always been a presiding concern in Miller's work. It shows what is at stake in the problematic figure of the zero through a philosophical consideration of foundations for criticism, and relates this thinking to the issue of the foundational grounds for the historical event. Using the literary examples of Joyce and of Wyss, and the philosophy of Pascal, de Man and Frege, t…
Aesthetic Democracy
Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics. The author argues for a way of outwitting this potentially dangerous struggle of east and west…
Without and Beyond Compare
Without and Beyond Compare
Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency
This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political…
Nonviolence unbound
The boiled frog and the dodo
In his excellent ‘What’s happening to our universities?’ proposition paper, Ben R. Martin cogently and persuasively outlines some of the key changes that have happened in the last few decades to th
The Logic of 'But: Quarrels, Literature and Democracy
This paper looks at intrinsic disputation within proposition, and specifically within propositions that offer a moderated version of the freedom of speech and expression. It begins from a consideration of what is at stake in Othello's 'Rude am I in my speech', a rhetorical gesture that frames an act of great eloquence, and in which the eloquence serves to formulate a quarrel by ostensibly resolving it. This example reveals that there is a conflic…
Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics
From post-truth politics to 'no-platforming' on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the col…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)