Critical Thinking Books

New and Published Books

1. Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

   By Edward Mussawir

   Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Relational Sociology

   A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences

   By Pierpaolo Donati

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   ‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

   Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries

   By David Tyfield

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Law's Trace: From Hegel to Derrida

   By Catherine Kellogg

   Law's Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida’s reading of Hegel as its point of departure. While it is well established that seemingly neutral and inclusive legal and political categories and representations are always, in fact, partial and exclusive, among...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Critical Realism and Spirituality

   Edited by Mervyn Hartwig, Jamie Morgan

   Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Spirituality

   Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions:...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
7. AS Critical Thinking for AQA

   By Oliver McAdoo

   AS Critical Thinking for AQA is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabus. Structured very closely around the AQA specification, it covers the two units of the AS level in an exceptionally clear and student-friendly style. The chapters are...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque

   Arabesques & Entanglements

   By Richard K Sherwin

   Series: Discourses of Law

   Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From videos documenting crimes and accidents...

   Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Imagination

   Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

   Series: Birkbeck Law Press

   The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

   Published June 15th 2011 by Birkbeck Law Press
10. Contradictions of Archaeological Theory

    Engaging Critical Realism and Archaeological Theory

    By Sandra Wallace

    Series: Critical Realism: Interventions

    Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse? Sandra Wallace argues that archaeological theory has become mired as a result of logical and ontological contradictions. By showing that these contradictions are a result of common underlying philosophical assumptions and fallacies this book is...

    Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge