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  • Positivism and Sociology

    Explaining Social Life

    by Peter Halfpenny ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Innovations in Digital Research Methods

    Edited by Rob Procter, Peter Halfpenny ...
    Vast amounts of digital data are now generated daily by people as they go about their lives, yet social researchers are struggling to exploit it. At the same time, the challenges faced by society in the 21st century are growing ever more complex, and demands research that is bigger in scale, more collaborative and multi-disciplinary than ever before.This cutting-edge volume provides an accessible ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

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  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

    by Alfred I. Tauber ...
    Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy

    by Michael Proudfoot, A.R. Lacey ...
    First published in 1976, the Dictionary of Philosophy has established itself as the best available text of its kind, explaining often unfamiliar, complicated and diverse terminology. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this fourth edition provides authoritative and rigorous definitions of a broad range of philosophical concepts.Concentrating on the Western philosophical tradition, The Routledge ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology

    Edited by Sebastian Luft, Soren Overgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject, and essential reading for any student or scholar of phenomenology.Comprising over fifty chapters by a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Feyerabend

    Philosophy, Science and Society

    by John Preston ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from Wittgenstein's conception of meaning onto Popper's falsificationist philosophy. The key elements of Feyerabend's model of the acquisition of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Philosophies of Qualitative Research

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Understanding Qualitative Research
    In Philosophies of Qualitative Research, Svend Brinkmann explores the different philosophical paradigms and ideas that influence qualitative research today. Adopting a historical perspective, the book shows readers exactly how philosophical ideas have evolved and influenced qualitative research in both the past and present. Today, qualitative researchers tend to report on their philosophical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis

    by Dany Nobus ...
    Series series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy
    Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.The book is structured thematically around five key issues: diagnosis, the analyst's position during the treatment, the management of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Realism

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, Tony Lawson, Alan Norrie ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.It explores the following ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rorty and the Mirror of Nature

    by James Tartaglia ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Richard Rorty is one of the most influential, controversial and widely-read philosophers of the twentieth century. In this GuideBook to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Tartaglia analyzes this challenging text and introduces and assesses:Rorty's life and the background to his philosophythe key themes and arguments of Philosophy and the Mirror of Naturethe continuing importance of Rorty's work ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Lakatos

    An Introduction

    by Brendan Larvor ...
    Lakatos: An Introduction provides a thorough overview of both Lakatos's thought and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It is an essential and insightful read for students and anyone interested in the philosophy of science. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD