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A Book of Irish Verse by William Butler Yeats
$36.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics
In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics ...Show more
A Secure Base: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory by John Bowlby
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Category: Psychology | 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 Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In his controversial book "An Outline of Philosophy", first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argumen ...Show more
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Aspects of the Feminine by Carl Gustav Jung
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
'Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.' So Jung advises while reflecting on 'The Love Problem of a Student', an essay contained in this volume. But it is not just love that Jung speaks of in this book. Taking as its theme Jung's interpretation of the feminine principle in h ...Show more
Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
$39.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are ra ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
$43.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | 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
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
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Category: Feminism | Series: Routledge Classics
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intelle ...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. | Reading Level: near fine
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