This page gives information about the academic books that I have published. I'll be uploading the information as soon as I can. Meanwhile, here are a couple of covers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Criticism and Modernity  is a study that considers the relation of criticism to the large-scale questions of aesthetics. It argues that the development of aesthetics, from Hutcheson in 1725, is tied to the question of nation-building, and is thus a constituent element in the formation of cultural and political modernity. It considers the development of aesthetic philosophy and its relation to political culture in thinkers as diverse as Vico, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schlegel, Hugh Blair, Arnold, Eliot, Alain, Leavis, Derrida, Badiou, Agamben.