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The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy by Peter Winch
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophywas a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had ...Show more
The Imaginary by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Translated by Jonathan Webber, with introductions by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre and Jonathan WebberWe may therefore conclude that imagination is not an empirical power added to consciousness but it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes freedom.' Jean Paul SartreA cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy. Th ...Show more
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as ...Show more
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action. Supported by a clear introduction and detailed summary o ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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 Open Society and Its Enemies Vol 2 by Karl Popper
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx in this text prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems.
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1) by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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 Political Unconscious - Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing the book, in the mid to late seventies, there was a major reaction against deconstruction and poststructuralism. As one of the most ...Show more
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Prote ...Show more
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly ...Show more
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language by Paul Ricoeur
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the wor ...Show more