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Browse Philosophy books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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1. Political Evil in a Global Age

   Hannah Arendt and International Theory

   By Patrick Hayden

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization. In...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
2. Science, Order and Creativity

   By David Bohm, F. David Peat

   Series: Routledge Classics

   One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for a renewed emphasis on ideas rather...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
3. Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

   Edited by Max Kölbel, Bernhard Weiss

   Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence and why has it proved so enduring?In Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
4. Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

   Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

   By Gregg Stern

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to -...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
5. Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger

   By Martin Heidegger

   Edited by David Farrell Krell

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker’s writings in one volume, including: The Origin of the Work of Art The introduction to Being and...

   Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
6. Punishment

   By Thom Brooks

   Punishment is an area of increasing importance and concern to both citizens and politicians. How do we decide what should be crimes? How do we decide when someone is responsible for a crime? What should we do with criminals? These are the main questions this introductory textbook on the...

   Published August 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. Reading Sartre

   On Phenomenology and Existentialism

   Edited by Jonathan Webber

   Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
8. Epistemology

   A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 3rd Edition

   By Robert Audi

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

   Epistemology, or “the theory of knowledge,” is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive introduction to the field of...

   Published August 22nd 2010 by Routledge
9. Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics

   Reimagining the Profession

   Edited by Reid Mortensen, Francesca Bartlett, Kieran Tranter

   Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

   The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise,...

   Published August 18th 2010 by Routledge
10. Sociology and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

    By Emile Durkheim

    First published in English in 1953, this volume represents a collection of three essays written by seminal sociologist and philsopher Emile Durkheim in which he puts forward the thesis that society is both a dynamic system and the seat of moral life. Each essay stands...

    Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge