With a new foreword by Akshi Singh, An Experiment in Leisure remains a striking and captivating adventure in thinking and living with uncertainty, whose insights remain fresh and relevant today.  Meer

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the book’s first publication in the 1930s.  Meer

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Salmon, a debate between Derrida and Étienne Balibar published here in English for the first time, and corrections made by Derrida.  Meer

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Salmon, a debate between Derrida and Étienne Balibar published here in English for the first time, and corrections made by Derrida.  Meer

A sleeper hit of economics! Its brilliant insights have become ever more relevant as liberal capitalism confronts challenges from austerity to the global race for resources.  Meer

A sleeper hit of economics! Its brilliant insights have become ever more relevant as liberal capitalism confronts challenges from austerity to the global race for resources.  Meer

A brilliant exposition of Popper's theory of knowledge, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Jeremy Shearmur, which provides some helpful context to Objective Knowledge and Popper's philosophy in general.  Meer

A brilliant exposition of Popper's theory of knowledge, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Jeremy Shearmur, which provides some helpful context to Objective Knowledge and Popper's philosophy in general.  Meer

This is the second of Raymond Aron's classic two-volume survey of the sociological tradition – arguably the definitive work of its kind. Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Émile Durkheim, who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian "neo-Machiavellian" who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber, who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization.  Meer

This is the second of Raymond Aron's classic two-volume survey of the sociological tradition – arguably the definitive work of its kind. Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Émile Durkheim, who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian "neo-Machiavellian" who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber, who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization.  Meer

The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of physics, it was written against the background of stunning new developments in physics earlier in the century, above all relativity, as well as the excitement around quantum theory, which was just being developed.  Meer

Russell's first book on philosophy and a fascinating insight into his early thinking A classic in the history and philosophy of mathematics and...  Meer

A classic work from early in Russell's career and his major engagement with the nature of the mind Set the path for much of his subsequent...  Meer

Superb insight into the development of Russell's thinking by the master himself Clearly and engaging written, charting his intellectual development...  Meer

Brilliant introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, from the question 'what is a number?  Meer

Émile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works.  Meer

Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.  Meer

With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book. – The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere.  Meer

The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.  Meer

One of Laing's key works.  Meer