Philosophy

Edited by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ludwig Wittgenstein are two of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, yet their work is generally regarded as standing in contrast to one another. However, as this outstanding collection demonstrates they both reject a Cartesian picture of the mind and…

Hardback – 2017-04-17
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Routledge Research in Phenomenology

Edited by Peter R. Anstey

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s Principia; the notion plays a…

Hardback – 2017-04-14
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Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Kathleen A. Hull, Richard Kenneth Atkins

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist. In this book, scholars from around the world examine the nature and significance of Peirce’s work on perception, iconicity, and…

Hardback – 2017-03-28
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Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

By Guy Elgat

Ressentiment—the hateful desire for revenge—plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality’s values. Ressentiment,…

Hardback – 2017-03-28
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Uriah Kriegel

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School offers full coverage of Brentano’s…

Hardback – 2017-03-24
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

By Eyjólfur K. Emilsson

Plotinus (AD 205–270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his…

Paperback – 2017-02-14
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The Routledge Philosophers

By Dan Merkur

Edited by Jon Mills

This volume presents the first organized study of Jung's ethics. Drawing on direct quotes from all of his collected works, interviews, and seminars, psychoanalyst and religious scholar Dan Merkur provides a compendium of Jung’s thoughts on various topics and themes that comprise his…

Paperback – 2017-05-16
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Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

By Stephen Hester, Peter Eglin

Hester and Eglin’s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and…

Paperback – 2017-05-15
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By Matthew McDonald, Michael Wearing

Alongside the surging popularity of positive psychology has come a quiet but significant chorus of dissenting voices, raising questions about the movement: that it is philosophically naive, that it uncritically employs natural science research methods, that it takes a separatist stance, is unable…

Paperback – 2017-05-15
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