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An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry by Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter (Foreword by)
Category: Science | 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
Answer to Job by C G Jung
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Jung addresses the problem of how a good god can countenance the appalling evil apparent in the world. Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job. For a world that has witnessed great horrors, Job's cries of despair and incomprehension are all too r ...Show more
Blake: Collected Poems by William Blake; W. B. Yeats (Editor); Tom Paulin (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. ...Show more
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated reade ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Architecture | 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
Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the ...Show more
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
Category: Self-Help | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
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."
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age by John Gray
Category: Philosophy | 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
Evolution as a Religion - 2nd Ed. by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
This work exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Having described evolution as "the creation-myth of our age", Midgely examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.
Feudal Society by Marc Bloch
Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
"Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of readers to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as livin ...Show more
Folk Devils and Moral Panics The Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen
Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought ...Show more
Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster by C.G. Jung
Category: Self-Help | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."