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  • The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University

    A Study in Knowledge Production

    by Harry Redner ...
    Series series Morality, Society and Culture
    The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess the institutional pressures on research in major disciplines such as literature, history, sociology and economics. It argues that all these ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • An Heretical Heir of the Enlightenment

    "Politics, Policy, and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom"

    Edited by Harry Redner ...
    This is primarily, but not exclusively, a book on Lindblom. All the pieces in it bear on his work, either as direct commentary on it or criticism of it, or as extensions of his ideas. But at the same time every piece follows the trajectory of its own ideas into the subject matter in which it delves. And these subjects are many and varied. Indeed, the prime purpose of this volume is to make the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Beyond Civilization

    Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization

    by Harry Redner ...
    For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now entering‘specifically, the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner approaches globalization from the perspective of history and seeks to interpret it in relation to previous key stages of human development. His account begins with the Axial Age (700 300 BC) and proceeds ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Ends Of Science

    An Essay In Scientific Authority

    by Harry Redner ...
    In this path-breaking and controversial book, Harry Redner provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. Taking “science†to include knowledge from the social sciences and humanities as well as the physical sciences, Redner shows how the history of science, philosophical theory, and current scientific research reveal ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A New Science Of Representation

    Towards An Integrated Theory Of Representation In Science, Politics And Art

    by Harry Redner ...
    This book deals with representation in science, politics and art both in its historical dimensions and in its contemporary expression. It aims to reveal the current trends of culture and guide these towards the goal of a future culture for the coming global technological civilization. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ulysses and Faust

    Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present

    by Harry Redner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based their works on one or other of the two key myths of the West, Ulysses and Faust. This volume provides a synoptic view of Western literature, as a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Totalitarianism, Globalization, Colonialism

    The Destruction of Civilization Since 1914

    by Harry Redner ...
    The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic. Over the course of that one-hundred-year span, civilizations were destroyed in the Old World, the New World, and the Third World, the latter represented by China, India, and Islam.In Europe the main agent of destruction was totalitarianism; in America it was globalization, ushered in by modernity; and in the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Tragedy of European Civilization

    Towards an Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

    by Harry Redner ...
    The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time some of the greatest modern thinkers were active, producing works that both reflected what was happening in history and contributed towards shaping it. This work is a critique of their ideas. Harry Redner establishes where and how they went wrong, in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals

    Evil, Enlightenment, and Death

    by Harry Redner ...
    This fourth instalment of Harry Redner's tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the philosophers of the seventeenth century laid the ground for the intellectuals of the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. They, in turn, promoted a fundamental transformation of human ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Lilla ...
    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

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  • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954

    Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and ... Read more

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