20th Century Books

New and Published Books

1. Deconstructing Habermas

   By Lasse Thomassen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Rethinking Law as Process

   Creativity, Novelty, Change

   By James MacLean

   Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian...

   Published February 4th 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 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Wittgenstein and Scepticism

   Edited by Denis McManus

   Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces. This collection is the first to be devoted to an examination of how that great philosopher's work bears on this fundamental philosophical problem....

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom

   ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later

   Edited by Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin’s writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have examined his general political theory, but...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

   The Idea of America

   Edited by Andrew Taylor, Áine Kelly

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

   Edited by Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Morality and Objectivity (Routledge Revivals)

   A Tribute to J. L. Mackie

   Edited by Ted Honderich

   The late J. L. Mackie and his work were a focus for much of the best philosophical thinking in the Oxford tradition. His moral thought centres on that most fundamental issue in moral philosophy – the issue of whether our moral judgements are in some way objective. The contributors to this volume,...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Reissuing several works originally published between 1918 and 1985, Routledge Library Editions: Russell offers a selection of scholarship covering the life and theories of Bertrand Russell. Russell (1872-1970) is the twentieth century’s most important liberal thinker and probably its greatest...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell

    By Kenneth Blackwell

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

    Bertrand Russell’s professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell considers Russell’s writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers the conceptual unity in Russell’s normative...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge