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Blake: Collected Poems by William Blake; W. B. Yeats (Editor); Tom Paulin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. ...Show more
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodi ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, i ...Show more
Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
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 Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and authoritarianism may seem like receding shadows fo ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Gravity and Graceshows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human conditio ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference by Luce Irigaray; Alison Martin (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America by Cornel West
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - ArtforumKeeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the le ...Show more
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit', Weil grips the moral imagination as few others before or since. She was only thirty four when she ...Show more