This set collects together journal articles and extracts from books to guide the reader to issues in educational and child development. Some of the ideas to influence developmental psychology in the 20th century are those of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. All developmental psychology courses now include the work of Vygotsky as his ideas challenge existing theorists like Piaget. This four-volume set reveals Vygotsky's ideas about the way children learn and the role of thought and language, and demonstrates the educational implications of his work. Vygotsky's ideas offered an entirely...

The Chicago School was the first major school of sociology in the USA, dominating the field for the first thirty-five years of the 20th century. In addition it was central as a training centre for students, going on to train generations of sociologists, and its impact has been enormous throughout this century. Starting with the earliest debates within Northern American sociology, pragmatic philosophy, and the Chicago School itself, this set provides key readings from contemporary journals and scholarly publications, which situate the School, give access to major documents through the edited...

The philosophy of Plato, acknowledged as an important thinker of the Ancient World, is a focus of attention not only among philosophers, but also classicists and literary and political theorists. This set selects examples of Platonic scholarship published in English since the 1950s and adds translations of works published in other languages. It covers Plato's theory of the Forms and Platonic Erotics and is concerned with the interpretations and major debates of philosophers of the Anglo-American schools since 1970.

This set offers the reader a way into the secondary literature on Russell. It features a critical commentary on Russell's life and influence, as well as his work on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, the history of philosophy, ethics, education, religion and politics. The books feature biographies of Russell by Broad, Gandy, Kreisel and Ayer, detailing the major events of Russell's life and introducing the main themes of his writings. Wood and Blackwell analyze the Russell's philosophical development, as well as recounting the relationship he had with Ludwig...

This volume presents articles written by leading Nietzsche scholars and demonstrates the serious re-consideration of Nietzsche's thought as a whole in a number of academic fields and disciplines over the last 30 years.

This collection covers the breadth of Mill's work in social theory and political economy, including his ethics, liberalism, theory of government, methodology and feminism. It illustrates the development of modern Mill scholarship and the influence of changing social conditions and philosophical trends upon it. Mill is recognized as a dominating figure in the tradition of liberalism. His brand of utilitarian liberalism represents the major alternative to the rights-based liberalism of contemporary thinkers such as Rawls and Dworkin, and his social thought has been debated ever since his death...

Homer's writings have always inspired works of scholarly criticism. These four volumes represent a comprehensive collection of examples of modern Homeric criticism published in English, from Friederich August Wolf's Prologomena and Homerum (1795), and translations of notable scholarship published in other languages. The volume is especially concerned with the genesis of the text (the Homeric question and the oral poetry debate), the depiction of the Homeric world and the plethora of literary criticism.

The works of Aristotle are central to the western philosophical tradition, and scholarship on Aristotle, especially in English, has burgeoned enormously since the 1950s. This text collects together articles on Aristotle's philosophy otherwise scattered over many philosophical, classical and historical scientific journals. The set thus provides a resource for those approaching the literature for the first time and for those already studying Aristotle in a professional capacity. Aristotle has been so influential and remains so in so many distinct areas that it is often the case that, say, a...

This set collects eighty-four articles on Virgil published in the last hundred years, many of which remain the starting-points for modern scholarship and criticism. The set gathers together articles from a wide range of journals in English, as well as from the German and Italian traditions of Virgil studies, some in new translations. The selections are arranged under the following headings: general articles, including a discussion of the influence of Lucretius' poetry on the Virgilian corpus; the Eclogues, containing critical interpretations of all ten of Virgil's bucolic poems, an...

Annales is the name given to a major school of historical enquiry, after the journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. This school of historiography has been one of the most celebrated, and yet criticised, of the 20th-century. It represented a departure from the traditional narrative chronological history and the incorporation of other disciplines, particularly geography and social anthropology. This set selects essays on the school, their journal, their self-referentiality and their influence, focusing mainly on debates in a number of...