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Heart and Mind by Mary Midgley
$33.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by the author. It is a book of superb spirit and style, more entertaining than a work of philosophy has any right to be.’ – Times Literary Supplement. Throughout our lives we are making moral choices. Some decisions simply direct our everyday comings and goings; others affect our ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
$198.61 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. From a devastating critique o ...Show more
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Complete Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
$33.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Within these covers you will find every one of the 210 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. These were stories kept alive by German peasants, the legacy of a vibrant oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation and often preserving hints of a mythology dating back to pre-Christian times. ...Show more
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference by Luce Irigaray; Alison Martin (Translator)
$36.95 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy. As s ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original c ...Show more
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evo ...Show more
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this Routledge Classics edition the author has written a challenging new introduction which explains the contin ...Show more
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is widely considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century, as well as a milestone in the field of psychology. In this book, Jung examines some of the most profound issues of analytical psychology, such as dream analysis, the collective unconscious, arc ...Show more
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss
$27.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science lear ...Show more
Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances A. Yates
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization ...Show more
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson, Julian Huxley
$32.00 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Series: Routledge Classics
Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world. Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling M ...Show more