Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide


Rupert Woodfin - 1997
    Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries, he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself. But can Aristotelian realism still be used to underpin our conception of the world today?

Introducing Baudrillard


Chris Horrocks - 1996
    His style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of being the pimp of postmodernism.

Introducing Hegel


Lloyd Spencer - 1996
    It offers perspectives on Lyotard's meta-narrative, and Fukuyama's end of history in postmodern debate.

Introducing Machiavelli


Patrick Curry - 1997
    Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. It is a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of the end justifies the means, or a more complex and subtle analysis of successful government?

Introducing Camus


David Zane Mairowitz - 1994
    This book traces the development of his life and work.

Heidegger for Beginners


Jeff Collins - 1994
    The book debates whether Heidegger was offering a deeply conservative mythology, or whether he was actually deconstructing philosophy as the West has known it.

Introducing Wittgenstein


John Heaton - 1992
    But what did Wittgenstein really say?

Introducing Walter Benjamin


Howard Caygill - 1994
    This book follows the life and work of this prominent critical theorist, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and image in modern art.

Introducing Aesthetics


Christopher Kul-Want - 2007
    But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is also a philosophy, in which perceptions, feelings and emotions combine to form the whole nature of experience. Through clear text and fitting illustrations, Introducing Aesthetics provides a captivating insight into the important issues of modern politics, psychoanalysis and art.

Barthes for Beginners


Philip Thody - 1997
    This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals. It looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their ideal self-image and the values of their society. Philip Thody and Ann Course elucidate Barthes' application of these ideas to literature, popular culture, clothes and fashion. They further clarify why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s. Introducing Barthes describes how Barthes' insistence on pleasure, the delights of sexual non-conformity and the freedom of the reader to make use of existentialist, Marxist, Freudian and structuralist interpretations of literary texts continue to make him one of the most challenging of modern writers.

Introducing Keynes: A Graphic Guide


Peter Pugh - 1990
    Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes argued that a healthy economy depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors and, most importantly, governments too. Keynes formulated that governments should take control of the economy in the short term, rather than relying on the market, because, as he eloquently put it 'in the long run, we are all dead'. This graphic guide is the ideal introduction to one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, at a time when his theories may be crucial to our economic survival. Through a deft mixture of words and images, "Introducing Keynes" is a timely, accessible and enjoyable read.

Introducing Newton


William Rankin - 1993
    There is only one known universe and it fell to Isaac Newton to discover its secrets. Newton was arguably the greatest scientific genius of all time and yet he remains a mysterious figure - a secret heretic, a mystic, an alchemist, and what is often forgotten, the scourge of forgers as England's Master of the Royal Mint.

Introducing Genetics


Steve Jones - 1993
    Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.

Introducing Levi Strauss and Structural Anthropology


Boris Wiseman - 1997
    The book also pursues the major contribution that Levi-Strauss has made to contempoary aesthetic theory.

Introducing Chomsky


John Maher - 1993
    This work traces his understanding of the cognitive realities involved in the use of language and the technical apparatus needed to represent it.