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61. The Transcendence of the Ego

    A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description

    By Jean-Paul Sartre

    Series: Routledge Classics

    ‘I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his work as a...

    Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
62. Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    By Pasquale Frascolla

    Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus provides an accessible and yet novel discussion of all the major themes of the Tractatus. The book starts by setting out the history and structure of the Tractatus. It then investigates the two main dimensions of the early Wittgenstein's thought,...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
63. Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

    Edited by William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
64. Against the Spiritual Turn

    Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

    By Sean Creaven

    Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

    The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (...

    Published January 19th 2011 by Routledge
65. Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

    Edited by Max Kölbel, Bernhard Weiss

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence and why has it proved so enduring?In Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
66. Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals)

    A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969

    By G.R. Elton

    The Twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
67. Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    Edited by Irving M. Copi, Robert W. Beard

    Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
68. Marx and Wittgenstein

    Social Praxis and Social Explanation

    By D. Rubinstein

    Despite the great differences between them, both Marx and Wittgenstein reject Cartesian dualism by showing that the mind is a property of action and that hte meaning of an action lies not in subjective consciousness but in the system of social praxis in which an action occurs. This common view...

    Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
69. Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein

    Edited by Peter Winch

    Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
70. Wittgenstein

    To Follow a Rule

    Edited by Steven Holtzman, Christopher Leich

    Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge