Routledge Revivals
About the Book Series
Are there elusive titles that you need and have been trying to source for years but thought that you would never be able to find?
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Sociology as Social Criticism (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Tom B. Bottomore
September 15, 2010
First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology ...
Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals): Essays in Political Philosophy
1st Edition
By John Gray
September 10, 2010
Liberalisms, a work first published in 1991, provides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years. John Gray assesses the work of all the major ...
Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals): Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Dabundo
August 23, 2010
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, ...
Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Hilary Putnam
August 23, 2010
First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves. ...
Saul Bellow (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Malcolm Bradbury
August 23, 2010
This study of Saul Bellow, initially published in 1982, looks at this Nobel Prize-winning author as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, ‘post-modern’ developments in the novel. Bradbury draws attention to ...
Theories of Modern Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Tom Bottomore
August 23, 2010
First published in 1985, Theories of Modern Capitalism provides a succinct study of Marxist and non-Marxist theories of Capitalism, its recent development, and the prospects of a transition to socialism. The study begins with a critical examination and comparison of four major theories of ...
Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
August 13, 2010
Originally in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical ...
Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals): A Costume and Social History
1st Edition
By Lou Taylor
August 13, 2010
First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of ...
Radical Records (Routledge Revivals): Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987
1st Edition
By Bob Cant, Susan Hemmings
June 10, 2010
The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characterised by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. But the law and its shortcomings never determined their...
The Novels of Virginia Woolf (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Hermione Lee
June 10, 2010
This book, first published in 1977, is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf’s nine novels, written in the hope of turning attention back from the life to the fictional work. Its clarity and insights will make this book invaluable ...
Sociology (Routledge Revivals): A guide to problems and literature
1st Edition
By Tom B. Bottomore
April 20, 2010
First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, ...
Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals): Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography
1st Edition
Edited
By Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan
February 11, 2010
This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions. Five different groups of authors, who have written broadly in the fields of industrial and social geography, discuss this relationship ...