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Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Heracles Resurgent
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In the fifth century BC Thebes, faced with the challenges presented by defeat and disgrace in the Persian Wars – it had sided with the invaders – succeeded not only in regaining its former prominence, but also in laying the groundwork for its hegemony of Greece in the early part of the fourth...
by Lionel Jehuda Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Professor Sanders’ full-length study of Dionysius I, one of the most powerful figures of fourth-century BC Greece, is the first to appear in English, and marks an important reassessment of the ‘tyrant’ of Syracuse.
Dionysius I regularly appears in the surviving historical accounts as...
Towards a Radical Democracy (Routledge Revivals)
The Political Economy of the Budapest School
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'. Dr. Brown demonstrates the importance of their work in contributing to a logically consistent yet realistic...
by Alec Nove
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1979, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism is an integrated selection of papers written over the past 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. Professor Nove discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the Russian...
The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)
A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 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 itself...
Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
A guide to problems and literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it...
Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals)
A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – and four contemporary developments or revisions of them – the sociologie active of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in...
by Dudley Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Hegel is one of the most important figures in the history of ideas and political thought. His Philosophy of Right is widely recognised as one of the greatest works of political philosophy.
Hegel and the Philosophy of Right introduces and assesses:
* Hegel's life and the background of the Philosophy...
Routledge Revivals: Easy Lessons in Einstein (1922)
A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of the Theory of Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
First published in 1922, this book represents the first attempt to popularise the more accessible aspects of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Eschewing the mathematical components that put the theory beyond many people’s grasp, the author employs metaphorical examples and thought...
by Sandrine Berges
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication...
by Aaron Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:
Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art
the ideas and texts of...
by Walter Ullmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government...
Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals)
Feminism and Cultural Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters...
Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals)
Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Fragments of Modernity, first published in 1985, provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century. In their different ways, all three illuminated the experience of the modern urban life, whether in mid nineteenth-century Paris,...