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A Secure Base: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory by John Bowlby
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
For many people today, giving time and attention to children means sacrificing other interests and activities. Yet a healthy parent-child bond is not only vital for well-being, but an essential part of what it means to be human. Secure children are confident, using a parent as a "secure base" while they ...Show more
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Des ...Show more
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Basic Writings of Heidegger by Martin Heidegger
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writingsoffers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker’s writings in one volume, including: The Origin of the Work of Art The introduction to Being and Time ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relation ...Show more
Between Man and Man by Martin Buber
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Category: Judaica | Series: Routledge Classics
Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, apply ...Show more
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodi ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Conquest of Happinessis Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the fi ...Show more
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Žižek
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chapli ...Show more
Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, i ...Show more