20th Century Books

New and Published Books

1. Education, Ethics and Existence

   Camus and the Human Condition

   By Peter Roberts, Andrew Gibbons, Richard Heraud

   Series: Educational Philosophy and Theory

   Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. He has gained widespread recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague and Exile...

   Published February 27th 2015 by Routledge
2. The New Materialism

   Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek

   By Geoff Pfeifer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser’s materialism as a starting point—which, as Pfeifer shows, was built partially as...

   Published February 24th 2015 by Routledge
3. Wittgenstein and Perception

   Edited by Michael Campbell, Michael O'Sullivan

   Throughout his career, Wittgenstein was preoccupied with issues in the philosophy of perception. Despite this, little attention has been paid to this aspect of Wittgenstein's work. This volume redresses this lack, by bringing together an international group of leading philosophers to focus on...

   Published February 20th 2015 by Routledge
4. Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)

   By Ted Honderich

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the...

   Published February 13th 2015 by Routledge
5. Social Ends and Political Means (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Ted Honderich

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Leading British, American and European philosophers contribute to this collection of essays, first published in 1976, in political philosophy. They are essays which have to do in different ways with better societies than the ones we have, and with ways of getting them. They exemplify what can...

   Published February 13th 2015 by Routledge
6. The Element of Fire (Routledge Revivals)

   Science, Art and the Human World

   By Anthony O'Hear

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche’s words: ‘To look at science from the perspective of the artist, but at art from that of life’. The title contests the notions that science alone can provide us with the most objective truth about the world, and that artistic...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
7. An Enquiry into Moral Notions (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1935, this book compares and examines what John Laird termed the ‘three most important notions in ethical science’: the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Laird poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
8. Liberality and Civilization (Routledge Revivals)

   By Gilbert Murray

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1938, these lectures argue that liberality is the foundation of civilization. According to Gilbert Murray, civilization provides the surplus of security, leisure and wealth that makes liberality possible; a failure of liberality is the surest test of the failure of a civilization...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
9. A Study in Moral Theory (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1926, this study addresses the theory of morality using four overarching approaches: analytical, psychological, theoretical, and finally, philosophical. Within these methodologies, chapters explore such areas as the character of moral enquiry, the knowledge of good and evil,...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
10. What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?

    By Andreas Huttemann

    'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas Hüttemann offers a fresh challenge to...

    Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge