Humanist Essays (Routledge Revivals)
Humanist Essays (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Gilbert Murray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1317913310

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First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was breaking apart, another group explore the background from which Christianity arose, considering Paganism and the religious philosophy at the time of Christ. These, in particular, display Gilbert Murray’s ‘profound belief in ethics and disbelief in all revelational religions’ as well as his conviction that the roots of our society lie within Greek civilization. Finally, there is an interesting discussion of Order and the motives of those who seek to overthrow it.

Fin de Siècle Socialism and Other Essays (Routledge Revivals)
Fin de Siècle Socialism and Other Essays (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Martin Jay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-02

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1135155860

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Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.

Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)
Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Raphael Samuel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1317207130

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First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present — historical consciousness — to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.

The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Nancy Armstrong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1317744357

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First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.

An Essay on India (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay on India (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Robert Byron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1136459006

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First published in 1931, Robert Byron’s Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon Byron’s travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, the work explores political factors more fully than in Byron's earlier writings, evaluating the successes and failures of British colonialism in the region.

The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Graham Good

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 131763778X

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First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism in science, but the main focus of Graham Good’s study is on the inner workings of the essay itself. Drawing on criticism by Adorno and Lukacs, Graham Good presents the genre as an expression of individualism, freed from tradition and authority, in which the self constructs itself and its object through independent observation. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the potential of the genre for independence and individualism is illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually challenging form of creative and critical writing.

Idealism (Routledge Revivals)
Idealism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alfred Ewing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1136209786

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First published in 1934, this book evaluates the characteristic doctrines of the idealism which dominated philosophy during the last century. It seeks to combine realism, as to epistemology and physical objects, with a greater appreciation of views which emphasize the unity and rationality of the universe. This work is not a history and does not try to compete with any histories of idealism but it instead reaches an independent conclusion on certain philosophical problems by criticising what others have said. The book considers differing arguments in order to determine their validity.

Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals)
Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jonathan Hart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1317539788

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Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about 1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.

Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)
Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Peter A. Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 131774893X

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Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure of social interaction, and includes a succinct discussion of geographical research on segregation and interaction, which has combined numerical analyses and qualitative ethnographic field research. A distinctive view of social geography is adopted, inspired by the Chicago school of North American pragmatism, but also incorporating the formal sociological theories of Simmel and Weber. Exploring Social Geography will be of value to students of urban geography in particular. However, it will also indicate a wide-ranging and distinctive perspective for all students of the social sciences with a special interest in debates concerning urban, ethnic, racial, anthropological and theoretical issues.

Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)
Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author: Margaret Schaus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 2033

ISBN-13: 1351681583

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First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.