The Transcendence of the Ego

A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description

By Jean-Paul Sartre

First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications. When it...

Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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Trust and Toleration

By Richard H. Dees

Toleration would seem to be the most rational response to deep conflicts. However, by examining the conditions under which trust can develop between warring parties,...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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The Literary Wittgenstein

Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer

The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of...

Published March 11th 2004 by Routledge.

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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...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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Power

A New Social Analysis

By Bertrand Russell

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate...

Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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What I Believe

By Bertrand Russell

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one...

Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Why I am not a Christian

and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

By Bertrand Russell

While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.

Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that...

Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Sceptical Essays

By Bertrand Russell

'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.'

With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book....

Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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In Praise of Idleness

And Other Essays

By Bertrand Russell

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection...

Published February 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Karl Popper

Edited by Professor Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear

Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of...

Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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