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Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International by Jacques Derrida
$39.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.In 1993, a conference was ...Show more
The Culture Industry - Selected essays on mass culture by Theodor W. Adorno; J. M. Bernstein (Editor, Introduction by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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 Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle by W. K. C. Guthrie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy - foundations that underpin Western thoug ...Show more
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha
$48.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | 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 Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Raimund Popper
$39.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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 Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book. - The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
$44.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
$36.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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 Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
$36.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | 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