Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Politics of Intention
There's a long tradition of texts being taken out by readers for very different purposes than they are. Dickens is a great example. If you look at Hegel himself, then you can see the philosophy of right in over kind of almost a neoliberalism where certainly a liberal way, but also quite a left winged way as well. I think down in history and that's one of the points I'm trying to raise in the book. It's a difficult point but there are all of these different theories that are connected to historical sectionality and historical scenes.
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