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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things cha...

‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only t...

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this bestselling student text provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the three pivotal figures in the clas...

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 mo...

Do the prices paid for the goods and services people need — or the money received for work they do — correspond to their real value? Most individua...

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings fr...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continues to prov...

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

The development delusion in a globalized culture is a fascinating subject for informed debate and discussion. Fallacies of Development critiques th...

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

One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possibl...

When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis 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...

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848. When the revolutions began...

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

“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.”The Pover...

Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solo...

First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. I...

This innovative new Reader provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of essential works of critical theory and c...

Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century al...