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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
$43.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodi ...Show more
British Folktales and Legends: A Sampler by Katharine Mary Briggs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, so ...Show more
Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Conquest of Happinessis Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the fi ...Show more
Crime Control as Industry by Nils Christie
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations, especially in Russia and Am ...Show more
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. ร0crits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 193 ...Show more
Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine M. Briggs
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Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky by C.G. Jung
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Routledge Classics
Written in the late 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, Flying Saucers is the great psychologist's brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world. A self-confessed sceptic in such matters, Jung was nevertheless intrigued, not so much by their reality or unre ...Show more
Folk Devils and Moral Panics The Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen
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Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought ...Show more
Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster by C.G. Jung
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Category: Psychology | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."
General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in an ...Show more
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Gravity and Graceshows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human conditio ...Show more