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1. The Philosophy of Money

   By Georg Simmel

   Edited by David Frisby

   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
2. Folk Devils and Moral Panics

   By Stanley Cohen

   Series: Routledge Classics

   'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen’s classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Distinction

   A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

   By Pierre Bourdieu

   Series: Routledge Classics

   No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast...

   Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
4. Keeping Faith

   Philosophy and Race in America

   By Cornel West

   Series: Routledge Classics

   'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
5. Reel to Real

   Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

   By bell hooks

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
6. Black Feminist Thought

   Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

   By Patricia Hill Collins

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
7. The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

   By Peter Winch

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and...

   Published September 2nd 2007 by Routledge
8. The Family and Individual Development

   By D. W. Winnicott

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these pages, Winnicott chronicles the complex inner lives of human beings, from the first encounter between...

   Published September 3rd 2006 by Routledge
9. Natural Symbols

   Explorations in Cosmology, 3rd Edition

   By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

   Series: Routledge Classics

   One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw...

   Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge
10. The Birth of the Clinic

    3rd Edition

    By Michel Foucault

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of...

    Published April 23rd 2003 by Routledge