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The 2011 Routledge Catalogue is now available online.

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  1. The World of Parmenides

    Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

    By Karl Popper

    Series: Routledge Classics

    With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Ideas

    General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

    By Edmund Husserl

    Series: Routledge Classics

    With a new foreword by Dermot Moran ‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Organs without Bodies

    On Deleuze and Consequences

    By Slavoj Zizek

    Series: Routledge Classics

    With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Gender Trouble

    Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    By Judith Butler

    Series: Routledge Classics

    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning...

    Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge

  5. Deprivation and Delinquency

    By D. W. Winnicott

    Edited by Clare Winnicott, Ray Shepherd, Madeleine Davis

    Series: Routledge Classics

    "Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent, a magician, a teacher, a poet and a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting and arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicott’s continued...

    Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Complete Series Bundle RC

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge

  7. Society and Culture Bundle RC

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge

  8. Religion Bundle RC

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge

  9. History Bundle RC

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge