Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)
Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Simone Weil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1135176000

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This volume, first published in English in 1987 makes available an important part of Weil’s early writings. Although primarily known as a religious thinker, she devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. This book reveals these other sides of Weil and demonstrates the lines of continuity underlying her whole thought. Written between 1929 and 1941 the book covers a crucial and transitional period in Weil’s life. Taken together they represent invaluable primary source material on the evolution of Weil’s life and on her chosen method of abstracting elements from her personal experience and transmuting that experience into considered thought. Even when highly theoretical, her writing was always concerned with the application of her intelligence to concrete problems of human existence.

Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)
Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Simone Weil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1135175993

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This volume, first published in English in 1987 makes available an important part of Weil’s early writings. Although primarily known as a religious thinker, she devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. This book reveals these other sides of Weil and demonstrates the lines of continuity underlying her whole thought. Written between 1929 and 1941 the book covers a crucial and transitional period in Weil’s life. Taken together they represent invaluable primary source material on the evolution of Weil’s life and on her chosen method of abstracting elements from her personal experience and transmuting that experience into considered thought. Even when highly theoretical, her writing was always concerned with the application of her intelligence to concrete problems of human existence.

Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals)
Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Victor Seidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1135156298

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This thought-provoking book, first published in 1991, examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity. Seidler’s stimulating and original analysis of social and political theory connects personally to everyday issues in people’s lives. It reflects the growing importance of sexual and personal politics within contemporary politics and culture, and demonstrates clearly the challenge that feminism brings to our inherited forms of morality, politics and sexuality.

The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals)
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Theo Hermans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1317637925

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First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars who share a common standpoint. They argue the need for a rigorous scientific approach the phenomena of translation – one of the most significant branches of Comparative Literature – and regard it as essential to link the study of particular translated texts with a broader methodological position. Considering both broadly theoretical topics and particular cases and traditions, this volume will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars across disciplines.

A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)
A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Laurence A. Blum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1135232415

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Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat. Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.

Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Otto Jespersen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-03-17

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1135155453

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This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice. The layout of the book largely follows the nature of the subjects dealt with: English grammar, phonetics, history of English, language teaching, language in general, international language and miscellaneous papers.

Questions on Wittgenstein (Routledge Revivals)
Questions on Wittgenstein (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Rudolf Haller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1317686853

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Wittgenstein, possibly the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, is often labelled a Neopositivist, a New-Kantian, even a Sceptic. Questions on Wittgenstein, first published in 1988, presents a selection of nine essays investigating a matter of vital philosophical importance: Wittgenstein’s relationship to his Austrian predecessors and peers. The intention throughout is to determine the precise contours of Wittgenstein’s own thought by situating it within its formative context. Although it remains of particular interest to Anglo-Saxon philosophers, special familiarity with Austrian philosophy is required to appreciate the subtle and profound influence which this cultural and philosophical setting had on Wittgenstein’s intellectual development. Professor Haller has spent his career exploring these themes, and is one of the foremost authorities on both Wittgenstein and contemporary Austrian philosophy. Questions on Wittgenstein thus offers a unique insight into the twentieth-century tradition of Austrian philosophy, and its importance for Wittgenstein’s thought.

Mindfulness and Madness
Mindfulness and Madness

Author: Ira Rechtshaffer

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2015-11-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1785350870

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Mindfulness and Madness shows how to approach our everyday life without armor, and how to meet the world's nakedness with our own.

Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)
Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David William Foster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 821

ISBN-13: 131751825X

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First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.

Society and Literature 1945-1970 (Routledge Revivals)
Society and Literature 1945-1970 (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alan Sinfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1135021384

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First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explores the social basis of our conceptions of literature and the ways in which writing is affected by the media, institutional and technical, through which it reaches readers. The text looks at experiences of the period in terms of domestic and world affairs, sexuality, and philosophical and religious attitudes. It discusses the social and economic structures which specifically affect the act of writing, and considers the dominant developments of the period in three genres: novels, poetry and writing for theatre.