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Major Works: 19th Century Philosophy

You are currently browsing 1–10 of 21 new and published major works in the subject of 19th Century Philosophy — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. A History of Atheism in Britain

    From Hobbes to Russell

    By David Berman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Heaven Wasn't His Destination

    The Philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach

    By William B. Chamberlain

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    If forced to state Feuerbach’s philosophical genealogy, one would have to say that he was son of Hegel, father of Marx, and half-brother of Comte. In his own day he had many a celebratory and many a vilifier. His philosophy has received very little direct treatment in the English language....

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Religion, Secularization and Political Thought

    Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill

    Edited by James E. Crimmins

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Hidden God

    A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pense´es of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

    By Lucien Goldmann

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    The concept of ‘world visions’, first elaborated in the early work of Georg Lukàcs, is used here as a tool whereby the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées and Kant’s critical philosophy are contrasted with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Lucien Goldmann, a leading...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Terrible Crystal

    Studies in Kierkegaard and Modern Christianity

    By Melville Chaning-Pearce

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Consisting of studies in Christian thought in relation to catastrophe, this book particularly looks at the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth. When it was first published in 1940 this important investigation of ‘existential reality’ presented the view that the climate of crisis and...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Authenticity and Learning

    Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy

    By David Cooper

    Series: Rouledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche

    David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge

  7. Break-Out from the Crystal Palace

    The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

    By John Carroll

    Series: Rouledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche

    Before Marcuse and Laing, before Heidegger and Sartre, even before Freud, the way was prepared for the anarcho-psychological critique of economic man, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of scientific habits of mind. First published in 1974, this title traces this philosophical...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge

  8. Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought

    A Collection of Essays

    Edited by Malcolm Pasley

    The central theme of this collection of essays, first published in 1978, is the basic tension in Nietzsche, and so in his work, between the urge to weave a satisfying web out of reality and the equally strong compulsion to expose its painful truths. The book aims to stress, not to play down, the...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism

    By Roger Hollinrake

    Series: Rouledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche

    Nietzsche’s relationship with Wagner has long been a source of controversy and has given rise to a number of important studies, including this major breakthrough in Nietzsche scholarship, first published in 1982. In this work Hollinrake contends that the nature and extent of the anti-Wagnerian...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge

  10. Nietzsche

    An Approach

    By Janko Lavrin

    Series: Rouledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche

    Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general....

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science
    By Robert Gorman
    To Be Published August 7th 2013
  2. Phenomenology and Existentialism: An Introduction
    By Reinhardt Grossman
    To Be Published August 7th 2013
  3. Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis: A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society
    By Barry Smart
    To Be Published August 7th 2013
  4. Husserl and Phenomenology
    By Edo Pivčević
    To Be Published August 7th 2013
  5. Phenomenology and Marxism
    Edited by Bernhard Waldenfels, Jan M. Broekman, Ante Pažanin
    To Be Published August 7th 2013

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