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On Education by Bertrand Russell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential and controversial work, Russell calls for an education that would liberate the child from unthinking obedience to parental and religious authority. He argues that if the basis of all ...Show more
Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek
$43.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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. Zize ...Show more
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Routledge Classics
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself ...Show more
Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel
$44.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Charles Lemert 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts m ...Show more
Playing and Reality by Donald Woods Winnicott
$56.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
For the pioneering psychologist D.W. Winnicott, a creative approach to the world is what makes life worth living. But what are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more ...Show more
Psychological Types by Carl Gustav Jung
$43.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Psychological Typesis one of Jung's most important and famous works. First published in English by Routledge in the early 1920s it appeared after Jung's so-called fallow period, during which he published little, and it is perhaps the first significant book to appear after his own confrontation with the ...Show more
Reel to Real: Race, class and sex at the movies by bell hooks
$45.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Routledge Classics
Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here ...Show more
Relativity by Albert Einstein
$24.99 NZD
Category: Books | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
From the age of Galileo until the early years of the 20th century, scientists grappled with seemingly insurmountable paradoxes inherent in the theories of classical physics. With the publication of Albert Einstein's "special" and "general" theories of relativity, however, traditional approaches to solvi ...Show more
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics
History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? The perfect introductio ...Show more
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode
$33.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often inflated, self-image. He identifi ...Show more
Sanity Madness and the Family by R. D. Laing
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patter ...Show more
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness. By subjecting the emotion theori ...Show more