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The Ecological Self

Freya Mathews

A compelling and fascinating account of how we must change our thinking about the environment, The Ecological Self is a classic of ecological and environmental thinking. This Routledge Classics edition…

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Excitable Speech

Judith Butler

Here Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life. Using the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, she provides a theory of the political ‘performativity’…

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Dreams

C.G. Jung,C.G. Jung

Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveller, and visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures of the 20th century. This text is a comprehensive compilation of his…

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The Need for Roots

Simone Weil,T. S. Eliot

In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual.

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category ‘woman’ and continues in…

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History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

History Of Western Philosophy was published in 1946. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy.

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There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The cultural politics of race and nation

Paul Gilroy

This text is a powerful indictment of contemporary academic practices, in which Gilroy highlights the inadequacies of the British approach to race. It provides a powerful new direction for race…

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Pierre Bourdieu

Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions…

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Stigmata

Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Stigmata explores a broad range of poetico- philosophical questions that have long concerned her…

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Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill Collins

Explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. This book provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black…

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The Family and Individual Development

D. W. Winnicott

Represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. This book chronicles the complex…

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

Jacques Lacan

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek.

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Je, Tu, Nous

Luce Irigaray

Exploring women’s experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.

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The Philosophy of ‘As If

Hans Vaihinger

Widely acknowledged today as a philosophical masterwork, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Michael Rosenthal, which provides fascinating and important background to Vaihinger’s life and the legacy…

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The Explanation of Behaviour

Charles Taylor

A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology and a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism. Includes a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Alva Noe…

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The Order of Things: An archaeology of the human sciences

Michel Foucault

Possibly one off the most significant yet most overlooked works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault’s reputation as an intellectual giant.

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The Rule of Metaphor

Paul Ricoeur

A fruitful and insightful study of how language affects how we understand the world, this book is also an indispensable work for all those seeking to retrieve some kind of…

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Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster

C.G. Jung

The concepts of the archetype is crucial to Jung’s radical interpretation of the human mind. Here he considers the archetypes he considered fundamental to every living individual: mother, rebirth, spirit…

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Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions

Jean-Paul Sartre,Jean-Paul Sartre

One of Sartre’s most important pieces of writing, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous…

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The Gift

Marcel Mauss

When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss’s highly original perspective.

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In Other Worlds

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an integration of ontemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism, this work turns explains major…

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Organs without Bodies

Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling enquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and psychoanalysis.

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The Location of Culture

Homi K. Bhabha

In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others.

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The Culture Industry

Theodor W. Adorno

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno’s finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno’s thoughts on culture.

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Routledge Classics

The Ecological Self

Excitable Speech

Dreams

The Need for Roots

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

History of Western Philosophy

There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The cultural politics of race and nation

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Stigmata

Black Feminist Thought

The Family and Individual Development

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

Je, Tu, Nous

The Philosophy of ‘As If

The Explanation of Behaviour

The Order of Things: An archaeology of the human sciences

The Rule of Metaphor

Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions

The Gift

In Other Worlds

Organs without Bodies

The Location of Culture

The Culture Industry