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Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Reference | 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
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: No Category | 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
Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: No Category | 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
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. From a devastating critique o ...Show more
On Dialogue by David Bohm
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses, and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm, 'one of the most searching thinkers in modern physics' (Nature), believed there was a better w ...Show more
Power by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by e ...Show more
Sane Society by Erich Fromm
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The San ...Show more
Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.' With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and su ...Show more
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Non-Fiction | 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 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 Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper
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Category: No Category | 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
What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existen ...Show more