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  • Teaching the Humanities in a Fractious World

    A Reply to Sceptics

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    This book confronts an ever more popular suspicion – that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is an ‘elitist’ indoctrination into ‘leftist’ or ‘liberal’ views. Having taught them for nearly 40 years, Gavin Kitching shows that, on the contrary, studying these subjects leads one to question all political and social views (left-wing, right-wing, ‘elite’, ‘popular’, religious, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein and Society

    A Social Researcher Philosophises

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Series series Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
    Building on the success of Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement (2003), this freshly conceptualised second edition offers a unique perspective on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy by examining its implications through the lens of empirical social research.Gavin Kitching, an experienced social researcher, explores how the study of language use in Kenya, Russia, and the North-East ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Theory

    The educational costs of postmodernism

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Despite this Professor Gavin Kitching claims that, 'At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

    A Global Future Beyond Nationalism

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    This short book makes a connection between recent ‘tectonic shifts’ in the world economy and the political problems currently confronted by western democracies.The shift of manufacturing away from the West, allied to the pressure to keep costs down in an increasingly competitive global economy, has led to economic inequality, reliance on service industry employment and public sector austerity. All ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Socialism

    A Theory for a Better Practice

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
    First published in 1983. Socialism was generally unpopular in Britain in the 1980s. The Left needed new ideas and fresh approaches if it was ever to escape its isolation from the mainstream of political and cultural life. Rethinking Socialism brought such a perspective to socialist thought and practice in Britain. Gavin Kitching contended that the unpopularity of the Left was not due primarily to ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective

    Populism, Nationalism and Industrialisation

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind Gavin Kitching’s examination of ‘development studies’, first published in 1982, from its origins in the late 1940s through to the contemporary era. While presenting the contemporary ‘radical ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (RLE Marxism)

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Marxism
    In this major study, first published in 1988, Professor Kitching builds on recent scholarship on Marx and Wittgenstein to provide an incisive, readable account and critique of the whole of Marx’s work. He presents the philosophical, economic, and political Marx as one thinker, and argues that the key to understanding Marx is his commitment to a ‘philosophy of praxis’. This sees thought as just ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • A Fateful Love

    Essays on Football in the North-East of England 1880-1930

    by Gavin Kitching ...
    Series Book 10 - Sport, History and Culture
    How did the world’s most popular sport begin? How was the ancient family of pastimes called «folk football» transformed into a new codified game - «association football» - which attracted such large numbers of players and paying spectators? Gavin Kitching tackles the question through a strikingly original and deeply researched history of the game in one of its most passionate strongholds: the ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Marx and Wittgenstein

    Knowledge, Morality and Politics

    Edited by Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? ... Read more

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

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  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series series Pelican Books
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