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Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert's exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman's gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and...

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing...

With a new introduction by Andrew Roberts. 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interest in the Napoleonic period can afford to ig...

This volume, the seventh in the series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition ...

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a...

Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and rel...

T.S. Eliot remains one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century, and perhaps the greatest. There has, however, been quite a dearth of crit...

The quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries ove...

This is a clear and critical account of Foucault's political thought: what he said, how it's been used and its influence today. Michel Foucault (19...

The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, ...

A Textbook continues to be one of the major variables that vitally conditions the teaching-learning process. It generates educative interactions be...

In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, ...

Saul Bellow’s writing exhibited the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of Western culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and...

Heidegger’s way of thinking has left a rich legacy for post-modern philosophers, particularly for Jacques Derrida who has greatly influenced philos...

Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy is an attempt to explore the fundamental structure and significance of human existence. Through his penetrating pheno...

In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M. A. R. Habib introduces major critical movements, figures, and texts, while ...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothingThe Republic by Plato embarks on a profound exploration of justice,...

The books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world. These i...