With over 200 titles, Routledge Classics is an attractive and affordable series of the most innovative and important works of modern times; books that have, by popular consent, become established as classics in their field. We've arranged our new titles and key backlist into themed sections, accessible via the links on the left of this page.
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The Greek Philosophers
from Thales to Aristotle
Series: Routledge Classics
With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie’s The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy – foundations that underpin Western...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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A History of the Roman World
753 to 146 BC
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Tim Cornell ‘Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?’ – Polybius, Greek Historian The city of Rome created...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Law, Legislation and Liberty
A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' – Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking about society and its values. The entire...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Ideas
General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
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 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The World of Parmenides
Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try...
Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
Series: Routledge Classics
‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’ -...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Organs without Bodies
On Deleuze and Consequences
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself...
Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The Philosophy of Money
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Charles Lemert 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge