Humanities Books

New and Published Books

1. Motherhood and Maternal Subjectivity

   Transformations of Self and Other in the Maternal Experience

   Edited by Maura Sheehy

   This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorizing about what happens to women when they become mothers. It explores how women are changed and shaped by interaction with their children and...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Solidarity in Individualized Societies

   Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement

   By Søren Juul

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

   By Marie McGinn

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The Routledge...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

   By Gerard J Hughes

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Written by one of the most important founding figures of Western philosophy, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics represents a critical point in the study of ethics which has influenced the direction of modern philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduces the major...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time

   By Stephen Mulhall

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major publication, Being and Time, which to this day...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

   By Robert Stern

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   The Phenomenology of Spirit is arguably Hegel’s most influential and important work, and is considered to be essential in understanding Hegel’s philosophical system and his contribution to western philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit introduces the major themes in...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding

   By E. J. Lowe

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

   By Nickolas Pappas

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic introduces the major themes in Plato’s great...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   By Sandrine Berges

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann

    Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

    Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge