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?
Well this may be the end of your quest – here is a fantastic opportunity for you to discover past brilliance and purchase previously out of print and unavailable titles by some of the world’s most eminent academic scholars.
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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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 ...
Marshall Plan Days (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Charles P. Kindleberger
December 17, 2009
Originally published in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, this fascinating collection of essays, from an eminent ‘insider’ to the Marshall Plan, combines economics, politics and history to provide authoritative and personal insights into the creation of one of the ...
Marxism and Historical Writing (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Paul Hirst
December 17, 2009
In this reissued collection of essays, first published in 1985, Paul Q. Hirst assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. It begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and includes chapters on G.A Cohen’s attempt to re-state ...
Philosophical Investigations on Time, Space and the Continuum (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Franz Brentano
December 17, 2009
Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its ...
Political Theories of Modern Government (Routledge Revivals): Its Role and Reform
1st Edition
By Peter Self
December 17, 2009
This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies. After analysing the external pressures which have shaped modern governments, the ...
Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals): Men, Feminism and Politics
1st Edition
By Victor Seidler
December 17, 2009
This thought-provoking book, first published in 1991, examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity. Seidler’s ...