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...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32506-6 (Routledge)

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History of Western Philosophy

By Bertrand Russell

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32505-9 (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...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32507-3 (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...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32509-7 (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...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18041-2 (Routledge)

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Philosophy and Ordinary Language

The Bent and Genius of our Tongue

By Oswald Hanfling

What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32277-5 (Routledge)

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Merleau-Ponty

By Stephen Priest

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is known and celebrated as a renowned phenomenologist and is considered a key figure in the existentialist movement.

In this wide-ranging and penetrative...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30864-9 (Routledge)

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Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century

Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 8

Edited by Richard Kearney

Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30880-9 (Routledge)

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Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the 20th Century

Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 10

Edited by John V. Canfield

The twentieth century brought enormous change to subjects such as language, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology. This volume covers the major developments in these areas and...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30882-3 (Routledge)

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations

By A.D. Smith

Husserl is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and his contribution to the phenomenology movement is widely recognised. The Cartesian Meditations...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28758-6 (Routledge)

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