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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The GuardianEdmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulis one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writer ...Show more
A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. "A Short History of Ethics" is an introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful histo ...Show more
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell’s ABC of Relativitywas considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to Einstein’s theory of Relativity for a general readershi ...Show more
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry by Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter (Foreword by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 when Bertrand Russell was 25 years old. It marks his first major foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. It provides a brilliant insight into Russell's early philosophic ...Show more
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Routledge Classics
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped th ...Show more
Basic Writings of Heidegger by Martin Heidegger
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writingsoffers 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 Time ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relation ...Show more
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodi ...Show more
Bounds of Sense An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Strawson, Peter
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant's philosophy, and is one of the key philosophi ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell's staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines his sh ...Show more