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The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler
$36.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-r ...Show more
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly ...Show more
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
$33.95 NZD
Category: Psychology | 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre
$27.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existen ...Show more
Why I am not a Christian: and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
'Why I am not a Christian' is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always b ...Show more
Why Men Fight by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. He argues that the individualistic approach of traditional liberalism ...Show more
Wickedness by Mary Midgley
$33.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers.
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.