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Welcome to our Philosophy catalogue for 2012. Over the twenty-nine sections below the cover on the left side of this page you will see the full range of frontlist titles and key backlist. If you’re looking for a textbook, reference or research title, or just want to see what’s new, you can click on our special sections – or just browse through by subject.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic year in 2012, with highlights including new translations of classic works by Jean Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and several new titles in the acclaimed Routledge Philosophy Companions series.

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  1. A New Environmental Ethics

    The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

    By Holmes Rolston III

    No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it. A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear,...

    Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge

  2. On Manners

    By Karen Stohr

    Series: Thinking in Action

    Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or—worse yet—as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies. Such sentiments either mistakenly assume that most manners merely frame the “real issues” of any interpersonal exchange or...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

  3. After The Open Society

    Selected Social and Political Writings

    By Karl Popper

    Edited by Piers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of...

    Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language

    Edited by Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara

    Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

    Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  5. Philosophy of Science

    A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd Edition

    By Alex Rosenberg

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

    Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume...

    Published July 11th 2011 by Routledge

  6. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology

    Edited by Sebastian Luft, Soren Overgaard

    Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

    Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject...

    Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge

  7. The Imagination

    By Jean-Paul Sartre

    "No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception". - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of...

    To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Fight Club

    Edited by Thomas Wartenberg

    Series: Philosophers on Film

    Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher’s popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk’s cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years. This is the first book to explore the varied philosophical aspects of the film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that places...

    Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge