Books in the Routledge Revivals series

Intends to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West.

Features essays that challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, this title insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference but taken rather as the capacity to grasp principles and purposes and to evaluate them in the light of relevant reasons.

Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. This book presents a study of these features from a philosophical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. It analyzes several varieties of ambiguity.

An introduction to the hermeneutic tradition. It helps students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of 'understanding social science' in their historical and philosophical context, by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics.

Features a collection of essays that embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, and of social movements. This title deals with the conservative versions of sociology, and attempts to develop more radical theories.

The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners. This book aims to demythologize the concept of potential. It shows the roots of potential in genuine aspects of human nature, and offers an interpretation of policy-making in education.

Suitable for modern sociologists, this title presents the author's theories and commentaries upon social development.

Deals with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics, that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. This book also addresses the question of whether or not reference to these abstract entities is really indispensable in logic.

Offers a seminal philosophical work, that presents a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves.

Paul de Man changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. This book addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the post-Kantian tradition, his concern with 'aesthetic ideology' as a potent force of mystification within and beyond that tradition, and the vexed issue of de Man's politics.

A work on the concept of social change that puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. It shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism.

An introduction to political philosophy that is suitable for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. It explains the nature and purpose of philosophy and provides an examination of the principle theories advanced by political philosophers from Plato to Marx, paying special attention to contemporary issues.

Presents a study of Marxist and non-Marxist theories of Capitalism, its development, and the prospects of a transition to socialism. This title examines and compares four major theories of capitalism, in the works of Marx, Weber, Schumpeter and Hayek. It offers an analysis of a phase of capitalism that has been conceptualized by Marxists thinkers.

An inquiry into Marx's method of theorising. It concludes that Marx's method, as dialectical phenomenology, offers a way of analysing language, knowledge and the social relations and practices of everyday life, as well as the more obvious phenomena of capitalism.

Originally published in 1978, this book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies, and which have stressed spontaneity and decentralization as the correct basis from which to change society.

Explores the underlying ideologies and decision-making procedures that codify the rules of the post-World War II liberal mercantilist and South preferential trade regimes. This title presents a data analysis of organised agrictultural trade that uncovers similarities between these diverse economic systems.

A translation of Franz Brentano's posthumous "Wahrheit und Evidenz". It includes Brentano's influential lecture "On the Concept of Truth", read before the Vienna Philosophical Society and a variety of essays, drawn from the wealth of Brentano's unpublished material.

A collection of stories which reveals the real, and sometimes comic, side of the functioning of the Star Chamber.

Simone Weil - philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker - developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. This title shows how Simone Weil's philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis.

A work that is based on the author's university lectures from 1967-8. It focuses upon two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, Gyorgy Lukacs and Martin Heidegger, demonstrating the origins of existentialist thought in the implicit connection between the two.

Assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. This title begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and also includes chapters on G A Cohen's attempt to re-state the Marxist theory of history in terms compatible with analytic philosophy.

Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, this work addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms 'commerce' and 'culture' which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices.

What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? This title explores such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy.

Pays attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. Suiatble for philosophers and critics, this title offers a clear-headed statement of the impact of deconstruction.

The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising "Wolfenden Report" and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic section 28 was characterized by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. This title explores non-traditional expressions of intimacy.

Comprises an evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.