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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Symbolism and Belief (Routledge Revivals): Gifford Lectures
1st Edition
By Edwyn Bevan
March 03, 2015
First published in 1938, this title presents the greater part of the 1933 Gifford Lectures in natural theology, given by Edwyn Bevan. The questions raised regarding the element of symbolism in religious conceptions takes the reader to the very heart of the religious problem, and addresses some of ...
The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By J. Binns
March 03, 2015
Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost ...
War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John Evans
March 03, 2015
J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the ...
State-Owned Enterprise in the Western Economies (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Vernon, Yair Aharoni
February 09, 2015
First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organisations in the advanced industrialised countries. The authors consider the regularities and characteristics of state-owned enterprises, in particular the...
A Study in Moral Theory (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John Laird
February 03, 2015
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, ...
An Enquiry into Moral Notions (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John Laird
February 03, 2015
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...
Anger and After (Routledge Revivals): A Guide to the New British Drama
1st Edition
By John Russell Taylor
February 03, 2015
When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and ...
Border Dialogues (Routledge Revivals): Journeys in Postmodernity
1st Edition
By Iain Chambers
February 03, 2015
First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian ‘weak thought’, the mysteries of being ‘British’, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion, ...
Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith
February 03, 2015
Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial ...
Humanist Essays (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Gilbert Murray
February 03, 2015
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was breaking apart, another group explore the background from which Christianity arose, considering Paganism ...
Language, Structure and Reproduction (Routledge Revivals): An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
1st Edition
By Paul Atkinson
February 03, 2015
Basil Bernstein is one of the most creative and influential of contemporary British sociologists, yet his work – especially that relating to language and social structure – is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. This book, first published in 1985, addresses the underlying themes and ...
Liberality and Civilization (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Gilbert Murray
February 03, 2015
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...