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The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of languag ...Show more
The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History Since 1815 by Alan John Percivale Taylor
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial, accomplishments. As Taylor himself noted, 'the hist ...Show more
The Culture Industry - Selected essays on mass culture by Theodor W. Adorno; J. M. Bernstein (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparall ...Show more
The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
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Category: Popular History | Series: Routledge Classics
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
¿If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.¿ - Karl Popper ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Prote ...Show more
The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidim by Martin Buber
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of ...Show more
To Hell with Culture by Herbert Read
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To H ...Show more
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
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 thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch h ...Show more
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
1921 erschien der 'Tractatus logico-philosophicus' unter dem Titel "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung" erstmals; ein Jahr sp ter dann in deutsch-englischer Version unter dem gel ufigen Titel. Seit seinem Erscheinen gilt dieses einzige von Wittgenstein selbst ver ffentlichte Buch als schwierig und r tsel ...Show more
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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Category: Spirituality | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.'- Gertrude Stein A classic of American thought, William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experienceis an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the most prof ...Show more