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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Ideas

   General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

   By Edmund Husserl

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new foreword by Dermot Moran ‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Wittgenstein's Novels

   By Martin Klebes

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Max Weber

   Collected Methodological Writings

   Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

   Series: Weber in Translation

   Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Heidegger

   By John Richardson

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and many others, and his later critique of modern rationality inspired Derrida and still others. This...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Habermas, Critical Theory and Education

   Edited by Mark Murphy, Ted Fleming

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Russell vs. Meinong

   The Legacy of "On Denoting"

   Edited by Nicholas Griffin, Dale Jacquette

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Robert Denoon Cumming

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre’s work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Philosophy of Time

   Time before Times

   By Roger McLure

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time. Is time perceptible only...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

    A Journey from Language to Experience

    By Peter Icke

    Series: Routledge Approaches to History

    The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently...

    Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge