19th Century Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

   By David Sepkoski

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. French Liberalism in the 19th Century

   An Anthology

   Edited by Robert Leroux, David Hart

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Political and economic liberalism has generally been considered to be of marginal import in France, but at an intellectual level, it is a different story. An exploration of the history of French economic thought shows how a rich intellectual tradition developed during the nineteenth century, which...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Economic Justice and Liberty

   The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism

   By Huei-chun Su

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. John Rawls’ 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice put forward a devastating challenge to the long-established dominance of utilitarianism within political and moral philosophy, and...

   Published March 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. Exceedingly Nietzsche

   Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation

   Edited by David Farrell Krell, David Wood

   Originally published in 1988, this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors discuss is the Nietzsche who exceeds any...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Authenticity and Learning

   Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy

   By David Cooper

   David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Heidegger and the Romantics

   The Literary Invention of Meaning

   By Pol Vandevelde

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel's Practical Philosophy

   By Andrew Buchwalter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

   This book explores and details the actuality (Aktualität) of Hegel’s social and political philosophy--its relevance, topicality, and contemporary validity. It asserts--against the assumptions of those in a wide range of traditions--that Hegel’s thought not only remains relevant to debates in...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Austrian Economics (Routledge Revivals)

   Historical and Philosophical Background

   Edited by Wolfgang Grassl, Barry Smith

   First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory...

   Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. Four Pragmatists

    A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey

    By Israel Scheffler

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a general historical and biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the...

    Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge