"Should be of considerable interest to a wider public, since it proposes a radical reformulation of psychoanalytical theory which, if accepted, would render outmoded almost all the analytical jargon that has crept into the language of progressive, enlightened post-Freudian people."-Charles Rycroft, The New York Review of Books "Schafer's arguments have considerable cogency. The tendency to over-theorize so that the translation of abstractions into the language of ordinary discourse between analyst and patient has become increasingly difficult is a fault; Schafer goes (...) a long way towards redressing it, and his efforts to include meaning and the person in the form of his language is an achievement."-Michael Fordham, The Times Higher Education Supplement. (shrink)

_Ideology and Utopia_ argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, (...) history and the social sciences. This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works. (shrink)

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition.

An attempt to understand the nineteenth-century's need to derive order from the individual rather than the objective world.

Though the Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawlsıs view, so much of the extensive literature on ...

Thought and its subject-matter, by J. Dewey.--Thought and its subject-matter: the antecedents of thought, by J. Dewey.--Thought and its subject-matter: the datum of thinking, by J. Dewey.--Thought and its subject-matter: the content and object of thought, by J. Dewey.-- Bosanquet's theory of judgment, by H. B. Thompson.--Typical stages in the development of judgement, by S. F. McLennan.--The nature of hypothesis, by M. L. Ashley.--Image and idea in logic, by W. C. Gore.--The logic of the pre-Socratic philosophy, by W.A. Heidel.--Valuation as (...) a logical process, by H. W. Strart.--Some logical aspects of purpose, by A. W. Moore. (shrink)