Routledge Revivals
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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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Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals): The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism
1st Edition
By Keith Dixon
January 18, 2011
Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles ...
Paths to International Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Strange
January 18, 2011
The problems of a troubled world economy and the essentially political issues of how it should be managed make up the stuff of international political economy. The overwhelming importance of these questions has drawn ever increasing numbers of students and teachers in universities, colleges and ...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Routledge Revivals): A Biography
1st Edition
By George Woodcock
January 18, 2011
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, was the first full-scale biography of Proudhon in the English language. Proudhon's influence on the French Socialist ...
Social Development (Routledge Revivals): Its Nature and Conditions
1st Edition
By L. T. Hobhouse
January 18, 2011
Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards ...
Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
January 18, 2011
Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the ‘living utopia’ of socialism on the development of modern society. It ...
The Achilles Heel Reader (Routledge Revivals): Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Seidler
January 18, 2011
First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context. Achilles...
Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Education in English History
1st Edition
By Josephine Kamm
December 17, 2010
Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls’ education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the progress of popular education and the work of ...
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 ...