Routledge Revivals
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Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond ...
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals): And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or ...
Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals): The Pre-history and After-life of Class
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
November 23, 2010
First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial ...
Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969
1st Edition
By G.R. Elton
November 23, 2010
The Twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which...
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold ...
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals): Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
1st Edition
By Christopher Norris
November 23, 2010
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers ...
Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals): Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Rachel Bowlby
November 23, 2010
The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman ...
The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals): A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
1st Edition
By Anthony D. Smith
November 23, 2010
Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals ...
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals): Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
1st Edition
By Christopher Norris
November 23, 2010
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of ...
Rationalisation and Unemployment (Routledge Revivals): An Economic Dilemma
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
November 13, 2010
First published in 1930, John Hobson’s study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production. Namely the over-production and surfeit of goods and the resultant failure of the expansion of markets leading to record levels of mass ...
Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Otto Jespersen
November 13, 2010
This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their ...
Terrorism and Communism (Routledge Revivals): A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
1st Edition
By Karl Kautsky
November 13, 2010
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation. The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth ...