Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was the most influential American linguist between William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) and Noam Chomsky (1928-). This work collects the major critical and interpretative writings on Bloomfield's work. It shows how his legacy of theory, description and comparison was transformed in diverse ways both by his contemporaries and by later generations of linguists.
The topics include biographical and general assessments of Bloomfield, reviews of his major works, appraisals of his views on phonology, morphology and syntax, his comparative work on Indo-European and...

This collection presents an overview of Pareto's vast intellectual legacy and considers both theoretical and applied contributions. The articles are thematically arranged and the themes most closely linked are included in single volumes. This arrangement allows historians of economic thought to discern Pareto's specific contributions without losing sight of the fact that each element of Pareto's work is a component of a broad system wide social framework. The set contains material for historians of economic thought, but also historians of sociological ideas and methodology. Volume One covers...

Each of the three volumes collected here has a dominant focus. The first, on Gilles Deleuze, the second on Felix Guattari and the third on Deleuze and Guattari. Volume one provides an overview of Deleuze's importance for cultural theory and practice across the arts, including essays on theatre, cinema, video, painting, literature, music and dance. This volume also includes assessments of Deleuze's original engagements with the philosophies of Hume, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Nietzsche and his effort to loosen them from the grip of the canon of the history of philosophy. The critical essays in...

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) is remembered primarily for Say's Law, one of the cornerstones of classical economics. The success of his Traite d'economie Politique made Say the best-known expositor of Adam Smith in Europe and America, and he became France's first professor of political economy.
The set covers the following themes:
* Say in the history of economics
* classical statements on Say's Law
* later statements on Say's Law (the prelude to the General Theory)
* the Keynesian Revolution and the attack on Say's Law
* Lange, Say's Law and the demand for money
*...

This Third collection of "Critical Assessments" of the work of Emile Durkheim extends and brings up to date the two previous sets published by Routledge. Edited by one of the leading members of the British Institute for Durkheimian Studies, this collection reprints essential scholarship on a key contributor to sociological theory.
Selected contents from the four volumes:
1. "Durkheim, E." Emile Durkheim: Lettres a Marcel Mauss [1998]
2. "Karady, V." The Durkheimians in Academe. A Reconsideration "The Sociological Domain" [1983]
Includes an original introduction by the editor.

From the sociology of modern capitalism to state theory and cultural and media studies, Antonio Gramsci's ideas have become a central component of mainstream social and political thought since the publication of his writings in English in the 1960s. In particular, his concept of hegemony, denoting the struggle for idealogical dominance by social classes, has been fundamental to the understanding of power in modern states.