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Keeping Faith

Philosophy and Race in America

By Cornel West

@quote: 'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and...

ISBN: 978-0-415-96481-4 | Published August 15th 2008 by Routledge.

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Outside in the Teaching Machine

By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-96482-1 | Published August 15th 2008 by Routledge.

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How the Irish Became White

By Noel Ignatiev

'…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White...

ISBN: 978-0-415-96309-1 | Published August 12th 2008 by Routledge.

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Black Feminist Thought

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By Patricia Hill Collins

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In...

ISBN: 978-0-415-96472-2 | Published August 11th 2008 by Routledge.

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

By Edmund Burke

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton

"One of the greatest essays ever written on art."

Guardian

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin...

ISBN: 978-0-415-45326-4 | Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Psychology and the Occult

By C.G. Jung

A fifteen-year-old girl who claimed regular communications with the spirits of her dead friends and relatives was the subject of the very first published work...

ISBN: 978-0-415-43745-5 | Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

A Study In Human Nature

By William James

'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.' - Gertrude Stein

A classic of American...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77382-9 | Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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The World of Perception

By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77381-2 | Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Psychology and the East

By C.G. Jung

'These writings of his are strongly alive; in most instances Jung does not present us with final solutions and last words about any of the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-43744-8 | Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Routledge Classics Philosophy Bundle

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ISBN: 978-0-415-46657-8 | Published November 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Routledge Classics Religion Bundle

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ISBN: 978-0-415-46659-2 | Published November 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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ISBN: 978-0-415-46470-3 | Published October 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

By Jacques Lacan

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-42361-8 | Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

By Peter Winch

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social...

ISBN: 978-0-415-42358-8 | Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Enjoy Your Symptom!

Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

By Slavoj Zizek

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch.

Zizek...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77259-4 | Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Enlightenment's Wake

Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

By John Gray

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a...

ISBN: 978-0-415-42404-2 | Published July 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Learning to Curse

Essays in Early Modern Culture

By Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77160-3 | Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Signatures of the Visible

By Fredric Jameson

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77161-0 | Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Judgements on History and Historians

By Jacob Burckhardt

Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41293-3 | Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Je, Tu, Nous

Towards a Culture of Difference

By Luce Irigaray

A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77198-6 | Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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The Family and Individual Development

By D. W. Winnicott

The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading...

ISBN: 978-0-415-40277-4 | Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Special Theory of Relativity

By David Bohm

In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein’s celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for...

ISBN: 978-0-415-40425-9 | Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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Constitution of Liberty

By F.A. Hayek

Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-40424-2 | Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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In Other Worlds

Essays In Cultural Politics

By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and...

ISBN: 978-0-415-38956-3 | Published May 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By Judith Butler

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.

Arguing that traditional...

ISBN: 978-0-415-38955-6 | Published May 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Outlaw Culture

Resisting Representations

By Bell Hooks

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse...

ISBN: 978-0-415-38958-7 | Published May 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Specters of Marx

The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

By Jacques Derrida

Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-38957-0 | Published May 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Colonialism and Neocolonialism

By Jean-Paul Sartre

Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over...

ISBN: 978-0-415-37846-8 | Published February 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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The Conquest of Happiness

By Bertrand Russell

The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading...

ISBN: 978-0-415-37847-5 | Published February 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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A Theory of Literary Production

By Pierre Macherey

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey’s first and most famous work, A Theory of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-37849-9 | Published February 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Godel's Proof

By Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman

‘Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel’s celebrated logic bomb.’ – The Guardian

In 1931 the mathematical logician...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35528-5 | Published September 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds

By John Bowlby

Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35481-3 | Published September 8th 2005 by Routledge.

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A Secure Base

By John Bowlby

As Bowlby himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work....

ISBN: 978-0-415-35527-8 | Published September 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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Lyrical Ballads

By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35529-2 | Published September 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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The Moral Law

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By Immanuel Kant

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds...

ISBN: 978-0-415-34547-7 | Published January 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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Words and Things

An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

By Ernest Gellner

When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a...

ISBN: 978-0-415-34548-4 | Published January 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Location of Culture

By Homi Bhabha

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond...

ISBN: 978-0-415-33639-0 | Published September 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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The Dogma of Christ

And Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

By Erich Fromm

When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis and...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28999-3 | Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Power

A New Social Analysis

By Bertrand Russell

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32507-3 | Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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What I Believe

By Bertrand Russell

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32509-7 | Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Why I am not a Christian

and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

By Bertrand Russell

While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.

Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32510-3 | Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Sceptical Essays

By Bertrand Russell

'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.'

With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book....

ISBN: 978-0-415-32508-0 | Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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In Praise of Idleness

And Other Essays

By Bertrand Russell

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32506-6 | Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Being and Nothingness

An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

By Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27848-5 | Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Rule of Metaphor

The Creation of Meaning in Language

By Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language...

ISBN: 978-0-415-31280-6 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.

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Performance Theory

By Richard Schechner

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four...

ISBN: 978-0-415-31455-8 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.

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Television

Technology and Cultural Form

By Raymond Williams

Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now...

ISBN: 978-0-415-31456-5 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.

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The Use and Abuse of History

Or How the Past is Taught to Children

By Marc Ferro

Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28592-6 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.

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Natural Symbols

Explorations in Cosmology

By Professor Mary Douglas

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously...

ISBN: 978-0-415-31454-1 | Published August 14th 2003 by Routledge.

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Man for Himself

An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

By Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30771-0 | Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Birth of the Clinic

By Michel Foucault

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30772-7 | Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

By Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30850-2 | Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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Aspects of the Masculine

By C.G. Jung

The concept of masculinity was crucial not only to Jung's revolutionary theories of the human psyche, but also to his own personal development. If, as...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30769-7 | Published April 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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Aspects of the Feminine

By C.G. Jung

'Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.' So Jung advises while reflecting on 'The Love Problem of a Student',...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30770-3 | Published April 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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God Here and Now

By Karl Barth

Karl Barth was, without doubt, one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. His radical affirmation of the revealed truth of Christianity changed...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30447-4 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Heart and Mind

The Varieties of Moral Experience

By Mary Midgley

Throughout our lives we are making moral choices. Some decisions simply direct our everyday comings and goings; others affect our individual destinies. How do we...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30449-8 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature

By C.G. Jung

The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature offers unique and penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30439-9 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Meaning of Relativity

By Albert Einstein

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28588-9 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Rethinking History

By Keith Jenkins

History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer....

ISBN: 978-0-415-30443-6 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Accumulation of Capital

By Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers'...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30445-0 | Published January 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Four Archetypes

By C.G. Jung

The concept of the archetype is crucial to Jung's radical interpretation of the human mind. Jung believed that every person partakes of a universal or...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30441-2 | Published January 9th 2003 by Routledge.

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Purity and Danger

An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28995-5 | Published September 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Language of Fiction

Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

By David Lodge

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already...

ISBN: 978-0-415-29003-6 | Published September 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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British Folk Tales and Legends

A Sampler

By Katharine Briggs

In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28602-2 | Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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The Fairies in Tradition and Literature

By Katharine Briggs

Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness....

ISBN: 978-0-415-28601-5 | Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Political Unconscious

Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

By Fredric Jameson

‘Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ... The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28750-0 | Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Political Unconscious

Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

By Fredric Jameson

In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28751-7 | Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Short History of Ethics

By Alasdair MacIntyre

What is right ? What is wrong ? How do we decide ? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28749-4 | Published May 9th 2002 by Routledge.

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Unended Quest

An Intellectual Autobiography

By Karl Popper

At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28590-2 | Published May 9th 2002 by Routledge.

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

By Frances Yates

Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated.

One...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27849-2 | Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Undiscovered Self

Answers to Questions Raised by the Present World Crisis

By C.G. Jung

In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27839-3 | Published April 4th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Poverty of Historicism

By Karl Popper

ISBN: 978-0-415-27845-4 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Suicide

A Study in Sociology

By Emile Durkheim

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27830-0 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Suicide

A Study in Sociology

By Emile Durkheim

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27831-7 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Evolution as a Religion

Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears

By Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27832-4 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Evolution as a Religion

Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears

By Mary Midgley

ISBN: 978-0-415-27833-1 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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The Poverty of Historicism

By Karl Popper

On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27846-1 | Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Michelangelo

By Adrian Stokes

Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26765-6 | Published October 25th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Stars Down to Earth

By Theodor Adorno

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27099-1 | Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Romantic Image

By Frank Kermode

For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26186-9 | Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Romantic Image

By Frank Kermode

For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26187-6 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Century of Revolution 1603-1714

By Christopher Hill

In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26738-0 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Century of Revolution

1603–1714

By Christopher Hill

There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26739-7 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

By Frances Yates

A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26769-4 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Language and Thought of the Child

By Jean Piaget

This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language, thought, and knowledge. Before this classic appeared, little was known of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26750-2 | Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Stars Down to Earth

By Theodor Adorno

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles...

ISBN: 978-0-415-27100-4 | Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Sane Society

By Erich Fromm

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society....

ISBN: 978-0-415-27098-4 | Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge.

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The French Revolution

Recent Debates & New Controversies

By G LeFebvre

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25547-9 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The French Revolution

From its Origins to 1793

By Georges LeFebvre

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25393-2 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Wheel of Fire

By G. Wilson Knight

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25395-6 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Wickedness

By Dr Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley's...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25398-7 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25408-3 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

By Frances Yates

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences....

ISBN: 978-0-415-25409-0 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Wickedness

By Dr Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25551-6 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Wheel of Fire

By G. Wilson Knight

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25561-5 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25562-2 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Principles of Literary Criticism

By I.A. Richards

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25402-1 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Shakespeare's Bawdy

By Eric Partridge

Shakespeare's Bawdy must rank as one of the great Eric Partridge's most outstanding accomplishments. In it, Partridge was able to combine his detailed knowledge of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25400-7 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Culture Industry

Selected Essays on Mass Culture

By Theodor W. Adorno Edited by J. M. Bernstein

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25380-2 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Sex and Repression in Savage Society

By Bronislaw Malinowski

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25554-7 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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MODERN MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL

By C.G. Jung

ISBN: 978-0-415-25544-8 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Écrits: A Selection

By Jacques Lacan

Écrits is Lacan's most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. This is the essential source for anyone...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25546-2 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Culture Industry

Selected Essays on Mass Culture

By Theodor W. Adorno Edited by J. M. Bernstein

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25534-9 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Psychology of Intelligence

By Jean Piaget

Think of developmental psychology, and the name of Jean Piaget immediately springs to mind. His theory of learning lies at the very heart of the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25401-4 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Medicine, Magic and Religion

By W.H.R. Rivers

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25403-8 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Leonardo da Vinci

By Sigmund Freud

This remarkable book takes as its subject one of the most outstanding men that ever lived. The ultimate prodigy, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25386-4 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Totem and Taboo

By Sigmund Freud

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25387-1 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

By C.G. Jung

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25390-1 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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Ecrits: A Selection

By Jacques Lacan

Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted...

ISBN: 978-0-415-25392-5 | Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Location of Culture

By Homi Bhabha

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond...

ISBN: 978-0-415-01635-3 | Published February 10th 1994 by Routledge.

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Max Weber and Karl Marx

By Karl Lowith

Löwith's study of Max Weber and Karl Marx is a key text in modern interpretations of the theme of alienation in Marxist theory and rationalization...

ISBN: 978-0-415-09381-1 | Published September 30th 1993 by Routledge.

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Professional Ethics and Civic Morals

By Emile Durkheim

Of Durkheim's key works the most neglected is Professional Ethics and Civic Morals. This is not only careless it is also negligent for the book...

ISBN: 978-0-415-06225-1 | Published April 2nd 1992 by Routledge.

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Ideology and Utopia

By Karl Mannheim

Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-06054-7 | Published March 7th 1991 by Routledge.

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From Max Weber

Essays in Sociology

By Max Weber

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This...

ISBN: 978-0-415-06056-1 | Published March 7th 1991 by Routledge.

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