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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Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Karl Jaspers
December 18, 2009
First published in English in 1933, this detailled philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind is a seminal work by influential German philsopher Karl Jaspers. Elucidating his theories on a variety of topics pertaining to contemporary and future ...
Prosperity and Public Spending (Routledge Revivals): Transformational growth and the role of government
1st Edition
By Edward Nell
December 18, 2009
In a dramatic and well-argued challenge to the prevailing wisdom, Prosperity and Public Spending, first published in 1988, contends that the failure of Keynesian economics has been due to its timidity. Far from contracting, the government must expand its powers and activities, in order to achieve ...
The True and the Evident (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Franz Brentano
December 18, 2009
First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano’s posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz, edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano’s influential lecture "On the Concept of Truth", read before the Vienna Philosophical Society, a variety of essays, ...
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals): Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
1st Edition
By Christopher Norris
December 17, 2009
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason....
Dialectical Phenomenolgy (Routledge Revivals): Marx's Method
1st Edition
By Roslyn Bologh
December 17, 2009
In this inquiry into Marx’s method of theorising, originally published in 1979, the author analyses theory in the same way that Marx analyses the production of capital, and provides a set of rules for reproducing Marx’s method. The rules are developed through an examination of the Grundrisse, ...
Fin de Siècle Socialism and Other Essays (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Martin Jay
December 17, 2009
Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Professor Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of ...
Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Simone Weil
December 17, 2009
This volume, first published in English in 1987 makes available an important part of Weil’s early writings. Although primarily known as a religious thinker, she devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. This book reveals ...
Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Laurence A. Blum
December 17, 2009
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality ...
Immediacy and its Limits (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Martin Buber's Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Rotenstreich
December 17, 2009
Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on a major problem in the philosophy of Martin Buber. This is the topic of immediacy which is presented in terms of the contact between human beings on the one hand, and man and God on the other. The basic theme throughout is whether the I-Thou ...
Just Looking (Routledge Revivals): Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
1st Edition
By Rachel Bowlby
December 17, 2009
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, ...
Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals): The Limits of Liberal Moral Theory
1st Edition
By Victor Seidler
December 17, 2009
In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity...
Love or greatness (Routledge Revivals): Max Weber and masculine thinking
1st Edition
By Roslyn Bologh
December 17, 2009
This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his ...