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Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International by Jacques Derrida
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.In 1993, a conference was ...Show more
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a surprising extent. With the inclusion of Stigmata, ...Show more
The Analysis of Matter by Bertrand Russell; John G. Slater (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of physics, it was written against the background of stunning new developments in physics earlier in the century, above all relativit ...Show more
The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell; Thomas Baldwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In The Analysis of Mind, one of his most influential and exciting books, Russell presents an intriguing reconciliation of the materialism of psychology with the anti-materialism of physics. This book established a new conception of the mind and provided one of the most original and interesting externali ...Show more
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy | 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 languag ...Show more
The Culture Industry - Selected essays on mass culture by Theodor W. Adorno; J. M. Bernstein (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparall ...Show more
The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in ...Show more
The Imaginary by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Translated by Jonathan Webber, with introductions by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre and Jonathan WebberWe may therefore conclude that imagination is not an empirical power added to consciousness but it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes freedom.' Jean Paul SartreA cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy. Th ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
¿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.¿ - Karl Popper ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1) by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the ...Show more
The Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original minds of the twentieth century. At the time of its first publication in 1957, it was hailed by Arthur Koestler a ...Show more
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Prote ...Show more