"Docherty has previously published a number of distinguished books, but this one might be seen as the culmination of his years of thought and work on the humanities and their social roles. . . . The scope of Docherty's knowledge
is truly amazing. . . . [He] writes with a quite unusual combination of passionate commitment and temperate clarity about difficult matters." --J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.