Reason and Compassion (Routledge Revivals)
Reason and Compassion (Routledge Revivals)

Author: R. S. Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1317500180

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First published in 1973, Reason and Compassion showcases a collection of lectures by Professor Richard S. Peters concerned primarily with the moral position, based on compassion and on the use of reason, which is critical to code-encased moralities. He reacts to the idea that whilst many people are sympathetic towards protests against an established moral code, they are reluctant to align themselves with modern forms of nihilism, subjectivism and romantic revolt. The work studies the implications for moral education and takes account of modern work ethics, development psychology and philosophy of religion. It presents its findings in a way which can be appreciated by specialists and non-specialists alike. By making a distinction between the form of the moral consciousness and the content of particular moralities, Peters reconciles the development approach of Piaget with the approaches of other schools of thought, including the Freudians and social learning theorists.

The Role of the Head (Routledge Revivals)
The Role of the Head (Routledge Revivals)

Author: R. S. Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1317498593

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First published in 1967, this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be, challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools. Contributors explore new concepts of the head’s role in school and authors include both theorists and headteachers coming from various backgrounds including those that are historical, philosophical, sociological, and practical. The book also benefits from some more down-to-earth musings by heads on the job. The collection as a whole offers a stimulating variety of views on a subject which is of importance to all teachers, as well as those concerned with management and decision making. Although first published some time ago, it explores issues that are ever present today.

Morality and Moral Reasoning (Routledge Revivals)
Morality and Moral Reasoning (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Casey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1135021619

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First published in 1971, the five essays in this book were written by young philosophers at Cambridge at that time. They focus on two major questions of ethical theory: ‘What is it to judge morally?’ and ‘What makes a reason a moral reason?’. The book explores the relation of moral judgements to attitudes, emotions and beliefs as well as the notions of expression, agency, and moral responsibility.

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: 372

ISBN-13: 1135021376

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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.

Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals)
Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Laurence A. Blum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1135156220

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Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blum’s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics more generally; to virtue ethics; and to subsequent influential interpretations of Kant that attempted to room for altruistic emotion and friendship, and other forms of particularism and partialism. In addition, the work has been widely influential in religious studies, political theory, bioethics, and feminist ethics.

Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals)
Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Max Byrd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1317678559

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Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when he sat down in January of 1759 to being his literary masterpiece. Aside from his sermons, only two of which had ever been published, Sterne had little more to do with the literary life than any other respectable provincial clergyman. His explosion into the history of English literature occurred not only without preparation, but also without apparent aptitude. Tristram Shandy, first published in 1985, sketches Sterne’s life and literary antecedents, closely analysing key passages of his great satire and concluding with the critical history and bibliography. It will thus be of use to all students of eighteenth-century English literature.

Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals)
Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Magdalene Redekop

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317695852

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First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes, performing stunts, and dressing in disguises that recycle vintage literary images. Magdalene Redekop studies this with the aim of gaining increased understanding of Munro’s evolving comic vision.

The Coming Fin De Siècle (Routledge Revivals)
The Coming Fin De Siècle (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Stjepan Mestrovic

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1135162913

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First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim’s sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. It does so by examining how Durkheim’s ideas can be applied to current social issues. The author argues that there are striking parallels between the social context of the 1890s, when Durkheim began to publish in book form, and today. The book will appeal to the readers of sociology, as well as the related disciplines of philosophy, psychology, cultural studies and history. It is also intended for anyone interested in the issues and questions that were being raised as humanity approached the end of the twentieth century and the end of the millennium.

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.

Moral Development and Moral Education (Routledge Revivals)
Moral Development and Moral Education (Routledge Revivals)

Author: R. S. Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1317488113

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First published in 1981, this collection of essays was taken from Peters’ larger work, Psychology and Ethical Development (1974) in order to provide a more focused volume on moral education for students. Peters’ background in both psychology and philosophy makes the work distinctive, which is evident from the first two essays alone: ‘Freud’s theory of Moral Development in Relation to that of Piaget’ and ‘Moral Education and the Psychology of Character’. He also displays balance in his acceptance that reason and feeling are both of great importance where the subject of moral education is concerned. Although written some time ago, the book discusses issues which are still of considerable interest and importance today.