Humanities Books

New and Published Books

1. Foucault for Architects

   By Gordana Fontana-Giusti

   Series: Thinkers for Architects

   From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Relational Archaeologies

   Humans, Animals, Things

   Edited by Christopher Watts

   Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn

   The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology

   Edited by Mireille Hildebrandt, Katja de Vries

   Privacy, Due process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology engages with the rapidly developing computational aspects of our world including data mining, behavioural advertising, iGovernment, profiling for intelligence, customer relationship management,...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Jessica Achberger

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Bioethics: The Basics

   By Alastair Campbell

   Series: The Basics

   Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. Capitalism

   A Companion to Marx’s Economy Critique

   By Johan Fornäs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In the most complete, accurate and accessible presentation of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism to date, Johan Fornäs presents a guide for anyone who wants to understand how today’s crisis-ridden society has emerged and is able to sustain and intensify its own deep inner contradictions. Capitalism...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
9. Race, Science, and the Nation

   Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany

   By Chris Manias

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology –...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

    By Charles Levinson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...

    Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge