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Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Charles Lemert 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts m ...Show more
Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.' With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and su ...Show more
The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History Since 1815 by Alan John Percivale Taylor
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial, accomplishments. As Taylor himself noted, 'the hist ...Show more
The Culture Industry - Selected essays on mass culture by Theodor W. Adorno; J. M. Bernstein (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparall ...Show more
The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in ...Show more
The Gift: Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions ...Show more
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
¿If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.¿ - Karl Popper ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita (King's College London, UK and Australian Catholic University, Australia)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loy ...Show more
The Psychology of Intelligence by Jean Piaget
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Routledge Classics
Think of developmental psychology, and the name of Jean Piaget immediately springs to mind. His theory of learning lies at the very heart of the modern understanding of the human learning process, and he is celebrated as the founding father of child psychology. A prolific writer, is the author of more t ...Show more
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.