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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
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
Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are ra ...Show more
Bertrand Russell's Best by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Bertrand Russell is regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest minds. Well-known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to myriad of different issues and subjects such as sex, marriage, religion, education and politics, his prolific works also exhibit great intellectual wit and h ...Show more
Blake: Collected Poems by William Blake; W. B. Yeats (Editor); Tom Paulin (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. ...Show more
Bounds of Sense An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Strawson, Peter
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant's philosophy, and is one of the key philosophi ...Show more
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated reade ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the ...Show more
Descartes by Williams Bernard
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
"This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyses Descartes's project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Des ...Show more