Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Thucydides Mythistoricus (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By F. M. Cornford
August 13, 2015
First published in 1907 and reissued in 1965, this is a fascinating study of Thucydides’s History. Thucydides set out to write a truthful account of the Pelopennesian war, but his work reflects his Athenian fourth-century B.C. context, which was of a particular interest to Cornford. In this ...
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ashok Vohra
August 13, 2015
Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body. Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, first published in 1986, argues that there is no genuine epistemological problem of mind, and that the widespread philosophical scepticism with regard to our ...
Amadas and Ydoine (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Ross Arthur
July 14, 2015
This translation, first published in 1993, presents a little-known medieval romance to readers who do not know Old French, or who are generally unfamiliar with the literature of the Middle Ages. Probably composed between 1190 and 1220, the major interest of Amadas and Ydoine to modern readers is ...
Building Communities (Routledge Revivals): The Co-operative Way
1st Edition
By Johnston Birchall
July 14, 2015
Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy. Before the First ...
Categorization and the Moral Order (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Lena Jayyusi
July 14, 2015
First published in 1984, this is a study of categorization practices: how people categorize each other and their actions; how they describe, infer, and judge. The book presents a sociological analysis and description of practical activities and makes a cogent contribution to the study of how the ...
Changes in Working Time (Routledge Revivals): An International Review
1st Edition
By Paul Blyton
July 14, 2015
First published in 1985, this book examines the major components of working time from an international perspective, considering the individual aspects of working time, with particular emphasis on the argument that work should be shared to alleviate unemployment and the case for further increasing ...
Communism and Development (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Robert Bideleux
July 14, 2015
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ‘Stalinist’ strategies of forced industrialisation ...
Death and the Maiden (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology
1st Edition
By Ken Dowden
July 14, 2015
A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and ...
Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals): In Appreciation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilbert Beith
July 14, 2015
Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist and political thinker. Embroiled in controversy with prominent figures of all political persuasions ...
Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Neil Rhodes
July 14, 2015
The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the ...
Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance
1st Edition
By Ross G. Arthur
July 14, 2015
This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable poems of the ‘romance’ genre of medieval literature, largely because it contains a number of surprises and falsified expectations. Jaufre, the hero, arrives at the court of King Arthur with a total and naïve faith in the...
Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals): The Stories of Alice Munro
1st Edition
By Magdalene Redekop
July 14, 2015
First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes, ...