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41. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation

    Herbert Marcuse Collected Papers, Volume 5

    By Herbert Marcuse

    Edited by Douglas Kellner, Clayton Pierce

    Series: Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers

    Edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation is the fifth volume of Herbert Marcuse's collected papers. Containing some of Marcuse’s most important work, this book presents for the first time his unique syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
42. The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

    A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

    By Chloë Taylor

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
43. Superstructuralism

    Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge
44. Shakespearean Genealogies of Power

    A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale

    By Anselm Haverkamp

    Series: Discourses of Law

    Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective on...

    Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge
45. Reading Sartre

    On Phenomenology and Existentialism

    Edited by Jonathan Webber

    Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing...

    Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
46. A Critical Realist Perspective of Education

    By Brad Shipway

    Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Education

    This book clearly and comprehensively explores the capability of critical realism to throw new light on educational theory. It firstly investigates the convergence and divergence between two forms of critical realism, which have not previously been cross-examined. This task allows the book to...

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
47. The Imaginary

    A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

    By Jean-Paul Sartre

    Series: Routledge Classics

    A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The...

    Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
48. Edward Said

    The Charisma of Criticism

    By H. Aram Veeser

    This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. H. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the...

    Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge
49. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change

    Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

    Edited by Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl Georg Høyer, Petter Naess, Jenneth Parker

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of...

    Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge
50. The Four Lacanian Discourses

    or Turning Law Inside Out

    By Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder

    Series: Birkbeck Law Press

    This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even...

    Published January 17th 2010 by Routledge