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A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. "A Short History of Ethics" is an introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful histo ...Show more
Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and deep understanding, he explores the formation and pu ...Show more
Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine M. Briggs
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics
Fairies fascinate young and old alike; to some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies, and in this book sh ...Show more
From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68 by Howard Hayes Scullard
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard's death. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Re ...Show more
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson, Julian Huxley
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world. Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling M ...Show more
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell's first major work in print. It was this title which saw him begin his ascent towards eminence. In this groundbreaking and important work, Bertrand Russell argues that mathematics and logic are, in fact, identical and what is common ...Show more
Stars Down to Earth by Theodor W. Adorno
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
In this remarkable work written 50 years ago, Adorno showcases the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption.
The Constitution of Liberty by Hayek F.A.
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Liberty.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek "A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of hu ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
¿If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.¿ - Karl Popper ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Prote ...Show more
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly ...Show more