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A Book of Irish Verse by William Butler Yeats
Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics
In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics ...Show more
A Secure Base: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory by John Bowlby
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics
For many people today, giving time and attention to children means sacrificing other interests and activities. Yet a healthy parent-child bond is not only vital for well-being, but an essential part of what it means to be human. Secure children are confident, using a parent as a "secure base" while they ...Show more
A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Des ...Show more
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell’s ABC of Relativitywas considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to Einstein’s theory of Relativity for a general readershi ...Show more
An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavski
Category: Art and Design | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre.Until now, readers and s ...Show more
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry by Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter (Foreword by)
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 when Bertrand Russell was 25 years old. It marks his first major foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. It provides a brilliant insight into Russell's early philosophic ...Show more
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
In his controversial book "An Outline of Philosophy", first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argumen ...Show more
Analytical Psychology by Carl Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In 1935 Jung gave a now famous and controversial course of five lectures at the Tavistock Clinic in London. In them he presents, in lucid and compelling fashion, his theory of the mind and the methods he had used to arrive at his conclusions: dream analysis, word association and 'active imagination.' Im ...Show more
Answer to Job by C G Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Jung addresses the problem of how a good god can countenance the appalling evil apparent in the world. Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job. For a world that has witnessed great horrors, Job's cries of despair and incomprehension are all too r ...Show more
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Aspects of the Feminine by Carl Gustav Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
'Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.' So Jung advises while reflecting on 'The Love Problem of a Student', an essay contained in this volume. But it is not just love that Jung speaks of in this book. Taking as its theme Jung's interpretation of the feminine principle in h ...Show more