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Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodi ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more
Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zize ...Show more
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hug ...Show more
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of languag ...Show more
The Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper
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Category: Theory | Series: Routledge Classics
Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original minds of the twentieth century. At the time of its first publication in 1957, it was hailed by Arthur Koestler a ...Show more
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