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Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Conquest of Happinessis Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the fi ...Show more
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Content and Consciousnessis an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and chal ...Show more
Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
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Category: Special Orders | 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 ethnography ...Show more
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. ร0crits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 193 ...Show more
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Žižek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chapli ...Show more
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as "Straw Dogs "and "Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern" which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists. Gray wrote "Enlightenment's Wake" in 1995 - six years after ...Show more
Essays on Contemporary Events by Carl Gustav Jung
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Was the leading psychologist of his time a Nazi sympathiser? This was the question asked by many after the Second World War, as they sought to explain Jung's actions and publications during Nazi rule. So great was the controversy that his reputation risked being permanently damaged. Essays on Contempora ...Show more
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable…It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' -Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams was one of ...Show more
Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine M. Briggs
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Fairies fascinate young and old alike; to some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies, and in this book sh ...Show more
Fairy Tales & the Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in ...Show more
Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and authoritarianism may seem like receding shadows fo ...Show more