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Pursuit of Signs
Paperback,
18/05/2001,
£11.99
£10.79
Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism.
Wheel of Fire
Paperback,
18/05/2001,
£13.99
£12.59
Originally published in 1930, The Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight, in which he founded a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism.
The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History Since 1815
Paperback,
18/05/2001,
£13.99
£12.59
One of the most famous and controversial works by possibly the highest profile historians of the twentieth century.
To Hell With Culture
Paperback,
05/09/2002,
£11.99
£10.79
A classic work that offers the reader an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out Read as a seminal and hugely influetial figure in the cultural life of the twentieth century.
Accumulation of Capital
Paperback,
23/01/2003,
£11.99
£10.79
This book remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. While many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism, this book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Paperback,
24/04/2003,
£15.99
£14.39
Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.
Stigmata
Paperback,
18/01/2005,
£14.99
£13.49
Stigmata collects some of Helene Cixous' most intriguing meditations. A unique book, it is a testimony to an extraordinary writer.
Psychological Types
Paperback,
26/09/2016,
£19.99
£17.99
"First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd in 1971."
Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style
Paperback,
28/09/2016,
£17.99
£16.19
"First published in English by Routledge 1993."
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia 2ed
Paperback,
29/03/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
Four Archetypes
Paperback,
09/01/2003,
£14.99
£13.49
The concepts of the archetype is crucial to Jung's radical interpretation of the human mind. Here he considers the archetypes he considered fundamental to every living individual: mother, rebirth, spirit and trickster.
Rethinking History
Paperback,
06/02/2003,
£11.99
£10.79
The perfect introduction to the discipline of history. It guides the reader through the controversies and debates that surround historical thinking and offers readers the means to make their own discoveries.
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
Paperback,
09/05/2002,
£13.99
£12.59
A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Popper also explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.
Conjectures and Refutations
Paperback,
02/05/2002,
£17.99
£16.19
One of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, it provides the clearest statement of the fundamental idea that guided his work: that our knowledge grows by an unending process of trial and error.
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Paperback,
11/07/2002,
£14.99
£13.49
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race, in which the author accuses British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously.
Collected Poems
Paperback,
11/07/2002,
£13.99
£12.59
This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Paperback,
12/09/2002,
£15.99
£14.39
In this classic work Mary Douglas identifies the concern for pirity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes tp society, values, cosmology and knowledge.
Gravity and Grace
Paperback,
12/09/2002,
£15.99
£14.39
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.
Natural Symbols
Paperback,
14/08/2003,
£13.99
£12.59
Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, this text took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times. Instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, the author claimed that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding.
Television: Technology and Cultural Form
Paperback,
21/08/2003,
£13.99
£12.59
This text was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains prescient.
History of Western Philosophy
Paperback,
02/02/2004,
£20.99
£18.89
History Of Western Philosophy was published in 1946. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy.
In Praise of Idleness
Paperback,
02/02/2004,
£16.99
£15.29
In this collection of essays, Russell surveys the social and political consequences of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humour. In Praise of Idleness is a tour de force that only Bertrand Russell could perform.
Why I am Not a Christian
Paperback,
02/02/2004,
£15.99
£14.39
Why I am not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant.
Location of Culture
Paperback,
01/09/2004,
£18.99
£17.09
Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmodern scholarship is inconceivable without referencing Mr. Bhabha. - Toni Morrison
Vision and Difference
Paperback,
24/04/2003,
£15.99
£14.39
Chapters on the structures of art historical writing are complemented by studies of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, which deal with themes of modernity, sexuality and repression.
Moral Law
Paperback,
18/01/2005,
£11.99
£10.79
A translation of Kant's classic statement of his moral philosophy with analysis and notes, Kant ranks with Plato and Aristotle as one of the most important philosophers of all time
Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Paperback,
01/02/2006,
£13.99
£12.59
Shows Sartre, a philosopher, passionately engaged in using philosophy as a force for change in the world. An important influence on postcolonial thought, this book takes on resonance in the light of the West's bout of interference in the non-Western world.
Conquest of Happiness
Paperback,
01/02/2006,
£16.99
£15.29
Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of 'The Happy Man', this book is written by Bertrand Russell.
Specters of Marx
Paperback,
01/05/2006,
£19.99
£17.99
Presenting a rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, this work contains writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.
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