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

What is the relationship between waiting and time? Is there an ethics of waiting, or even an art of waiting? Do the internet, online shopping and t...

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental qu...

On Dialogue [Paperback] David Bohm

Simon Glendinning provides a clear picture of the current state of the contemporary philosophical culture by tracing the origins and development of...

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of...

With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incomme...

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a wo...

In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of indi...

Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep cr...

“As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was...” Capit...

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The San...

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern id...

Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the er...

This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together c...

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humo...

Most urban people are familiar with the word Feminism, but the understanding of it remains vague and there is a general rejection of its relevance ...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1138301361, 9781138301368, Routledge Classics

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

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

The present book, Western Philosophy of Education, consists of thirteen chapters and studies all the essential educational philosophies of Plato, A...

Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freed...