Routledge Major Works

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Philosophy

Routledge Major Works

Philosophy

4-Volume Set

Philosophy of ReligionEdited and with a new introduction by William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, USA

Series: Critical Concepts in PhilosophyThe past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and new historical research have prompted many thinkers to take a fresh look at old topics (God’s existence, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and the like). Moreover, sophisticated examinations of contentious new issues, such as the problem of religious diversity or the role of emotions and other non-evidential factors in shaping rationally held religious beliefs, have also emerged.

Selected Contents: Volume I 1. Concepts of God 2. God’s Knowledge 3. God’s Power 4. God’s ‘Metaphysical’ Attributes 5. Onto-Theology Volume II 6. Arguments for the Existence of God 7. The Ontological Argument 8. The Cosmological Argument 9. Design Arguments 10. The Problem of Evil 11. Divine Hiddenness Volume III 12. Religious Experience 13. Faith and Reason 14. Religious Language Volume IV 15. Pragmatic Arguments for Religious Belief 16. Religious Diversity and Rational Religious Belief 17. Tolerance and the Public Role of Religion

August 2009: 234x156: 1,600ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-44210-7

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4-Volume Set

Richard RortyEdited and with a new introduction by James Tartaglia, University of Keele, UK

Series: Critical Assessments of Leading PhilosophersRichard Rorty (1931–2007) remains one of the contemporary world’s most influential thinkers. The daunting quantity (and variable quality) of literature available on Rorty makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, is so urgently needed. Edited by James Tartaglia, the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (Routledge, 2007), one of the most popular and straightforward books available on Rorty, this new Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection of the best scholarship from the 1960s to the present day; the collected materials have been carefully selected from a wide range of academic journals, edited collections, and research monographs, many of which are hard to obtain in their original source.

Selected Contents: Volume I: Mind, Language and Truth Richard Rorty. Mind. Language. Truth. Volume II: Metaphilosophy and Pragmatism Reviews of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Metaphilosophy. Pragmatism. Volume III: Philosophers Davidson. Dennett. Derrida. Dewey Gadamer. Habermas. Hegel. Heidegger Nietzsche. Peirce Plato. Putnam. Wittgenstein. Volume IV: Themes. Bioethics Chinese Philosophy. Environmental Philosophy. Ethnocentrism. Feminism. Irony. Literature. Moral Philosophy. Nihilism. Politics. Religion. Social Science.

November 2009: 234x156: 1,552ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-49004-7

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4-Volume Set

Roland BarthesEdited and with a new introduction by Neil Badmington, University of Cardiff, UK

Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural TheoryOf all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes (1915–80) is probably the most widely read. Mythologies has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in paperback and has never been out of print since it first appeared in English in 1972. And ‘The Death of the Author’, his short essay dating from 1968, is probably the most widely anthologized theoretical text of all. Moreover, even though he died over a quarter of a century ago, Barthes remains especially ‘alive’ to English-speaking audiences in that his voluminous writings are still being translated into English.

Reflecting the vibrancy and dynamism of Barthes Studies, this four-volume collection of gathered materials address the full range of Barthes’ extremely diverse output to provide the definitive evaluation of his work.

Selected Contents: Volume I Section 1: Myth, Doxa, History Volume II Section 2: Writing/Reading Volume III Section 3: Love, Desire, Pleasure, Sex Section 4: Sound and Vision Volume IV Section 5: Queer Barthes Section 6: Imagining Others Section 7: The Late Roland Barthes

December 2009: 234x156: 1,324ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-47257-9

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5-Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault Various

Series: Routledge Library EditionsProviding a detailed and in depth analysis of one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century, this Routledge Library Edition brings together some of the most significant and insightful scholarship on Michel Foucault published in the past quarter of a century. These five volumes, first published between 1984 and 1991, offer an extremely valuable study of this influential figure, covering a wide variety of themes, which range from Foucault’s views on education and society through to his thoughts on ethics sexuality, Marxism and power. Not only does the collection offer a detailed analysis of Foucault’s social and philosophical theories, it also seeks to assess the continuing influence and significance of Foucault in the decade immediately following his death in 1984.

Selected Contents: Volume 1: Foucault and Education Volume 2: Towards A Critique of Foucault Volume 3: Truth and Eros Volume 4: Foucault Marxism and Critique Volume 5: Cultural Analysis

December 2009: 234x156: 1,030ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-56195-2

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6-Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Friedrich NietzscheVarious

Series: Routledge Library EditionsThis six-volume Routledge Library Edition set is dedicated to the work of key nineteenth-century German thinker, Friedrich Nietzsche, whose hugely influential work in the field of philosophy continues to be felt to this day. The six volumes, published between 1948 and 1988, represent a truly wide-ranging analysis of Nietzsche’s life and work, offering an excellent overview of the cannon of critical analysis and interpretation on Nietzsche in the twentieth century. The collection covers Nietzsche’s perspectives and influence upon a variety of sociological and philosophical debates, as well as placing his work in the context of contemporaries such as Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Max Stirner.

Selected Contents: Volume 1: Break-out from the Crystal Palace Volume 2: Authenticity and Learning Volume 3: Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism Volume 4: Exceedingly Nietzsche Volume 5: Nietzsche: An Approach Volume 6: Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought

December 2009: 216x138: 1,350ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-56149-5

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5-Volume Set

The EnlightenmentEdited and with a new introduction by Ryan Patrick Hanley, Marquette University, USA and Darrin McMahon, Florida State University, USA

Series: Critical Concepts in Historical StudiesMore than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings together in five volumes the very best scholarship on the period and its legacy. It also incorporates historical and critical essays addressed to the Enlightenment’s alleged responsibility for institutions or policies prevalent in the twentieth century, including economic globalization and the Holocaust.

October 2009: 234x156: 1,968ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-34687-0

Routledge Major Works

Philosophy

ForthcomiNg iN 2010

4-Volume Set

SpiritualityEdited and with a new introduction by Paul Heelas, Lancaster University, UK

Series: Critical Concepts in Religious StudiesIt would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the ‘sixties’, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the west, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is true that ‘spirituality’ has eclipsed ‘religion’ in western settings remains debatable. What is incontestable is that the language of spirituality, together with practices (most noticeably spiritual CAM, complementary and alternative medicine), has become a major feature of the sacred dimensions of contemporary modernity. Equally incontestably, spirituality is a growing force in all those developing countries where its presence is increasingly felt among the cosmopolitan elite, and where spiritual forms of TCAM (traditional complementary and alternative medicine) are thriving.

This new four-volume Major Work from Routledge provides a coherent compilation of landmark texts which cannot be ignored by those intent on making sense of what is happening to the sacred as spirituality – more exactly what is taken to be spirituality – develops as an increasingly important lingua franca, series of practices, and as a humanistic ethicality.

Volume I focuses on spiritualities which to varying degrees are embedded within the Christian tradition, including those on the border of what can reasonably be called Christian; coverage is global. Volume II examines tradition and transformations within Hinduism and Islam, as well as within other Traditions (for example Buddhism and Sufism). Volume III looks at spiritualities which are less clearly embedded within traditions – largely detraditionalized, or more or less entirely post-traditional – spiritualities which thereby provide alternatives to traditions; alternatives which are more inclusivistic, cosmopolitan than exclusivistic traditions. Volume IV examines the issues prompted by the preceding three volumes, to do with interpretation, explanation, and judgement.

The set is designed to contribute to reflection on ways of studying, characterizing and explaining spiritualities. Of particular note, attention has been paid to efforts to develop academically-viable terminologies which do justice to what is distinctive about various forms of spirituality: for example, to do justice to forms which are ‘beyond beliefs’; where the language of belief is not in evidence. With a full index, and a newly-written introduction by the editor, Spirituality is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as an essential one-stop refererence resource.

July 2010: 234x156: 1,600ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-49029-0

ForthcomiNg iN 2010

4-Volume Set

The Philosophy of RaceEdited and with a new introduction by Paul Taylor, Temple University, USA

Series: Critical Concepts in PhilosophySince at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to faciliate ready access to the most influential and important foundational and cutting-edge scholarship.

Volume I (‘Historic Readings on Race’) brings together the key texts to have shaped the most widely recognized forms of ‘race thinking’. The second and third volumes in the collection, meanwhile, explore the questions that race raises in philosophy’s traditional subfields. Volume II (‘Racial Being and Knowing’) gathers the best and most influential work to unravel the implications of racial practices for metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. And Volume III (‘Raceing Beauty, Goodness, and Right’) collects the key scholarship to deal with the consequences of racial practices for aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

The final volume in the collection (‘Intersections’) assembles the most important work to grapple with the methodological and geographical complications that accompany a commitment to racialism. (Race is an inherently contextual phenomenon and some of the material gathered in this volume—in particular, that exploring racialization in Japan, Brazil, and Norway—provides a refreshing counterweight to the philosophical zeal for abstraction.)

The Philosophy of Race is edited by Paul C. Taylor, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual and historic context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

October 2010: 234x156: 1,600ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-49602-5

ForthcomiNg iN 2010

4-Volume Set

Philosophy of MindEdited and with a new introduction by Sean Crawford, University of Manchester, UK

Series: Critical Concepts in PhilosophyPhilosophy of Mind is concerned with fundamental issues about the relation between mind and body and mind and world, and with the nature of the diverse variety of mental phenomena, such as thought, self-knowledge, consciousness, perception, sensation, and emotion. Philosophers of mind explore some of the most perplexing questions about our mental lives. For instance:

•Howexactlyisthementalrelatedtothephysical?

•Howisitthatourthoughtscanreachouttorealityandrefertoobjectsdistantintimeandspace?

•Whatisconsciousness?Canitbeexplainedbyscience?

•Howisthoughtrelatedtolanguage?

•Cananimalsthink?

•Istheresomeonething,somespecialproperty,thatallmentalphenomenasharethatdistinguishesthemfromnon-mentalphenomena?

•Towhatextenthasthecomputerhelpedustounderstandthenatureofmind?

•Doesemotionplayalargerroleinourrationalitythathaspreviouslybeenthought?

For as long as humanity has sought an understanding of its place in the universe, philosophy of mind has been at the centre of philosophy, but it flourishes now as it has never done before. This new title in the Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s enormous literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by Sean Crawford, a prominent scholar in the field, it is a four-volume collection of classic and contemporary contributions to all of the major debates in philosophy of mind.

With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Philosophy of Mind is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by philosophers of mind—as well as those working in allied areas such as metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language; and cognate disciplines such as psychology—as a vital research tool.

Selected Contents: Volume I: Foundations Volume II: The Mind–Body Problem Volume III: Intentionality Volume IV: Consciousness

July 2010: 234x156: 1,600ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-47191-6

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