Routledge Revivals
About the Book Series
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Social Development (Routledge Revivals): Its Nature and Conditions
1st Edition
By L. T. Hobhouse
January 18, 2011
Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards ...
Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
January 18, 2011
Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the ‘living utopia’ of socialism on the development of modern society. It ...
The Achilles Heel Reader (Routledge Revivals): Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Seidler
January 18, 2011
First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context. Achilles...
Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Education in English History
1st Edition
By Josephine Kamm
December 17, 2010
Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls’ education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the progress of popular education and the work of ...
Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond ...
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals): And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or ...
Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals): The Pre-history and After-life of Class
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
November 23, 2010
First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial ...
Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969
1st Edition
By G.R. Elton
November 23, 2010
The Twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which...
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Israel Scheffler
November 23, 2010
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold ...
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals): Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
1st Edition
By Christopher Norris
November 23, 2010
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers ...
Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals): Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Rachel Bowlby
November 23, 2010
The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman ...
The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals): A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
1st Edition
By Anthony D. Smith
November 23, 2010
Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals ...