"Immensely useful, enabling us to gain, because of its clarity and incisiveness, a broad overview of a complex international development without simplifying either its literary or philosophical richness." Geoffrey Hartman,Sterling Professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University "Invaluable: deserves the attention of all serious students of post-modernity." David Tracy, Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School, University of Chicago"No one will fail to learn from this primer that is charming, personal, chatty and informative, and manages to be both erudite and readable." John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University USA

Author Kevin Hart is Professor English at the University of Notre Dame, Illinois, USA. He is the author or editor of 15 books, and has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2001).