Routledge Revivals
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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.
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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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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 ...
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 ...