Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) (Paperback)
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Nietzsche and Postmodernism
Nietzsche and Postmodernism (Paperback)
Dave Robinson
In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series, Dave Robinson explains the key ideas of this Anti-Christ philosopher and then provides a clear account of the central themes of postmodernist thought exemplified by such thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Rorty.
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Foucault and Queer Theory
Foucault and Queer Theory (Paperback)
Tamsin Spargo
In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking.
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Einstein and the Total Eclipse
Einstein and the Total Eclipse (Paperback)
Peter Coles
The eclipse of 1919 was observed from two islands off the coast of South America by an expedition which saw the expected – the bending of starlight by the sun, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. This essay offers an illustration of some of the ideas of Einstein's theory.
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Derrida and the End of History
Derrida and the End of History (Paperback)
Professor Stuart Sim
In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTER series, the author places Derrida's rejection of Fukuyama's claim within a wider tradition of endist thought. The Frenchman's critique of endism is highlighted as one of his most valuable contributions to the post-modern cultural debate as well as the most accessible entry to deconstruction.
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Baudrillard and the Millennium
Baudrillard and the Millennium (Paperback)
Chris Horrocks
Jean Baudrillard's analysis of the millennium as a non-event is examined here. Key topics, such as natural catastrophes, the body, "victim culture", identity and Internet viruses are discussed in reference to Baudrillard's millennial thought from the 1980s to the threshold of the year 1000.
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Introducing Marquis De Sade
Introducing Marquis De Sade (Paperback)
Stuart Hood Graham Crowley
Sadism was Sade's weapon of exploration into the fundamental nature of morality. His excess soon landed him in prison and his dangerous ideas kept him jailed for most of his life. He died in an insane asylum. This guide places Sade in the materialist current of Western philosophy.
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Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis
Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
John Heaton
Sigmund Freud and Ludwig Wittgenstein were contemporaries. This essay brings these influential Viennese thinkers together in the arena of a postmodern encounter over the question – which of the two philosophies is the better "therapy" for us in the 21st century?
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Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars
Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars (Paperback)
Ziauddin Sardar
Rather than a neutral value-free quest for "Truth", Thomas Kuhn reduced science to puzzle-solving within belief systems. This introduction provides an analysis of the conflict and shows how science has become a contested cultural symbol.
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Heidegger and the Nazis
Heidegger and the Nazis (Paperback)
Jeff Collins
This is a review of the facts and arguments surrounding Heidegger's politics and his advocacy of Nazism. Reason, modernity, humanism, subjectivity and identity are among the issues.
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Hawking and the Mind of God
Hawking and the Mind of God (Paperback)
Peter Coles
It is Stephen Hawking's belief that when the theory of everything is discovered, we will at last know the mind of God. Peter Coles explains and examines this belief.
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Freud and False Memory Syndrome
Freud and False Memory Syndrome (Paperback)
Phil Mollon
The allegation that psychotherapists may sometimes have fostered false memories of childhood sexual abuse has caused a scientific and legal controversy. This essay explores Freud and his understanding of memory.
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Introducing Trotsky and Marxism
Introducing Trotsky and Marxism (Paperback)
Phil Evans Tariq Ali Phil Evans
This introduction shows how Trotsky predicted the Holocaust and foresaw events in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Eastern bloc. It explains how he saw the Stalinist system as a transitional state which would either move toward socialism or revert to capitalism.
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Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
Richard Appignanesi Oscar Zarate
Understanding the events in post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe at the turn of the millennium requires a basic grasp of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's role in it. This reference aims to make that part of history accessible.
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Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality
Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality (Paperback)
Chris Horrocks
The existence now of "virtual" communities underlines what McLuhan predicted, and the philosophical questions that become apparent make a reassessment of his work rather timely. This text attempts to do this by discussing Marshall McLuhan and the subject of "virtuality".
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Lacan and Postfeminism
Lacan and Postfeminism (Paperback)
Elizabeth Wright
Jacques Lacan's influence has spread far from the clinical psychology that his theories were rooted in, to become a touch point in English, social science, philosophy, and perhaps most radically, feminism. This text looks at Lacan and feminism.
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Einstein and the Birth of Big Science
Einstein and the Birth of Big Science (Paperback)
Peter Coles
In this book, Peter Coles examines insights into the sociological conflict between "Big Science" and popular culture that are as real today as they were in the 1920s.
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Donna Haraway and Genetic Foods
Donna Haraway and Genetic Foods (Paperback)
George Myerson
In this text, George Myerson examines the media hype surrounding genetically-modified foods in the light of Donna Haraway's postmodern, but critical work becoming ever more essential as we watch technology engulf our lives.
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The Unconscious
The Unconscious (Paperback)
Phil Mollon
A mini-essay which illuminates the psychoanalytical concept of the unconscious and its relationship to the way people lead real lives. It is jargon-free and includes examples taken from the lives of well-known people, and from art, music, poetry and literature.
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Darwin and Fundamentalism
Darwin and Fundamentalism (Paperback)
Merryl Wyn Davies
This book examines the use of Darwinist ideas in a plethora of regimes, and considers his legacy and reception outside the scientific community in which he ostensibly worked.
