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.
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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New Dimensions in Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Beloff
November 11, 2009
Originally published in 1961, this is an extremely valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary international institutions and the working of the British system of government. It deals with the problems presented to British Government Departments by the emergence in the post-war world...
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals): Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
1st Edition
By Raymond Plant, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Harry Lessor
November 11, 2009
This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social ...
Politics and Social Insight (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Francis Castles
November 11, 2009
First published in 1971, this is a clear, straightforward introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of political life. The topics covered include sociology and the discipline of politics, the elementary forms of ...
Pressure Groups and Political Culture (Routledge Revivals): A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Francis Castles
November 11, 2009
This volume, first published in 1967, offers a new approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised in recent years. Francis Castles seeks to throw light on this topic, firstly by examining the theoretical approaches to...
Reappraising J. A. Hobson (Routledge Revivals): Human and Welfare
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Freeden
November 11, 2009
J. A. Hobson was one of the most influential social, economic and political theorists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. In this volume, first published in 1990, eight scholars reassess the importance and relevance of his work today and affirm him as a major British thinker. ...
Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Saddam Hussein
November 11, 2009
First published in 1979, prior to the Iran-Iraq war, this important collection of speeches explains some of the strategic foundations of Iraq’s foreign and internal policies under the Ba’th Arab Socialist Party. This work concerns itself with aspects varying from advice on youth – ‘Let us win the ...
Social and Moral Theory in Casework (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Raymond Plant
November 11, 2009
First published in 1970, the aim of the book is to 'map the logical geography' of an important set of concepts which enter into the theory of social casework - those concerning the individual and society. Concepts examined include the individually orientated values of 'self-direction' and '...
The Foundation and Construction of Ethics (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Franz Brentano
November 11, 2009
Expanding on the theory of ethics first posited by Brentano in The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong this re-issued work, first published posthumously in 1952, is based on series of lectures on practical philosophy, given at the university of Vienna from 1876 to 1894. The ...
The Great Powers (Routledge Revivals): Essays in Twentieth Century Politics
1st Edition
By Max Beloff
November 11, 2009
This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of essays by British historian Max Beloff, designed to help us to understand and interpret the political problems of the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the challenges ...
The Social Democratic Image of Society (Routledge Revivals): A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Francis Castles
November 11, 2009
This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia ...
Hegel's Metaphysics of God: The Ontological Proof as the Development of a Trinitarian Divine Ontology
1st Edition
By Patricia Marie Calton
December 28, 2001
This title was first published in 2001: Hegel's Metaphysics of God presents Hegel's response to Kant's claim that metaphysics in general and, in particular, knowledge of God, is beyond the grasp of human knowledge. Calton argues that Hegel uses his version of the ontological proof not only to ...
Japan and Multilateral Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Philippe Régnier, Daniel Warner
December 28, 2001
This title was first published in 2001: Japan has a long history of being isolated from multilateral diplomacy. With its increasing economic power, Japan has become more concerned with external foreign relations and hence more involved in multilateral diplomacy. This coherent and interrelated text,...