David Searle: 4 books

Natural beauty, fascinating culture and thousands of years of history; this is Hangzhou, China. Every year, millions of Chinese tourists visit the city that thirteenth century Italian explorer Marco Polo described as the ‘City of Heaven’. And like every big city in modern China, life is changing...

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays...

A man with evil urges sells his soul to Satan in return for earthly power and wealth. After many years of abuse and depravity the man decides he no longer wishes to honour the deal and travels into the Black Pit of hell in order to steal back the soul contract. He meets a debauched female who travels...

There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.                 The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy,...