Chomsky and Globalisation

  THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. Please email info@iconbooks.co.uk if you would like more information. Noam Chomsky, the 'Einstein of modern linguistics', is equally well- known as an uncompromising political dissident and social critic. This book summarises Chomsky's recently published views on Globalization and the New world Order. His position is an unusual one. Where Global Free …

Darwin and Fundamentalism

Darwin's Origin of Species is undoubtedly one of the most important books in the scientific pantheon. But can we take Darwin's theory of evolution as a confirmed scientific fact? Contrary to myth, the famed Scopes 'Monkey Trials' of 1925 failed to establish the truth of science and the falsehood of creationism. Biblical literalism has now returned with renewed vigour in the guise of 'creation scie…

Dawkins and the Selfish Gene

  THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. Please email info@iconbooks.co.uk if you would like more information. The biologist Richard Dawkins is renowned for his theory of 'the selfish gene'. But what does this theory really say, and why do so many people object to it? In this thought-provoking book, Ed Sexton explains Dawkins' ideas and shows how they have been widely misunderstood. By separ…

Freud and False Memory Syndrome

  THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. Please email info@iconbooks.co.uk if you would like more information. Since about 1992, an astonishingly fierce scientific, professional and legal controversy has arisen around the allegation that psychotherapists may sometimes have fostered false memories of childhood sexual abuse. Some have blamed Freud for this, arguing that he sowed the seeds of 'f…

Heidegger and the Nazis

Martin Heidegger's enthusiastic advocacy of Nazism has left discordant traces in the political culture of postmodernity. As a philosopher, he proposed an extraordinary thinking calculated to 'overcome' Western philosophy. A major resource for the counter-philosophies, anti-essentialisms and deconstructive movements of the postmodern era, his work has proved attractive to thinkers such as Foucault,…

Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide (EBOOK:PDF)

Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their ideal self-image and the values of their society. Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates…

Lacan and Postfeminism

Jacques Lacan (1901-81), known as 'the French Freud', is the key figure of postmodern psychoanalysis, reviled by some critics and revered by others who see him as the most original psychoanalytic theorist since Freud. 'Postfeminism' too is a disputed term. It can mean the mass media backlash against traditional feminism's struggle for women's equality, or, in an entirely different sense, the repos…