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A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. "A Short History of Ethics" is an introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful histo ...Show more
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
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
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell’s ABC of Relativitywas considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to Einstein’s theory of Relativity for a general readershi ...Show more
After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings by Karl Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's p ...Show more
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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 Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
Few philosophers have had a more profound influence on the course of modern philosophy than Bertrand Russell. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell is a comprehensive anthology of Russell's most definitive essays written between 1903 and 1959. First published in 1961, this remarkable collection is a te ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Blake: Collected Poems by William Blake; W. B. Yeats (Editor); Tom Paulin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Architecture | 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
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell's staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines his sh ...Show more
Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the ...Show more