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HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Bibliography
for
WORLD VIEWS: philosophical movements of the contemporary era
for MA in International Relations, MA in Globalisation, MA in Political Communication & MA in Journalism
and
History of Ideas  for BA in Journalism and BA in Communication Studies

Dr Helena Sheehan
School of Communications
 

The follwing books in DCU library may be useful for those taking these courses.
However, it has not been updated in several years.

A

Abercrombie, N, Hill, S & Turner, B  Dominant ideologies Unwin Hyman 1990 (330.12)
Abercrombie, N  Class structure and knowledge Oxford 1980 (306.42)
Adair, G  The postmodernist always rings twice Fourth Estate 1992 (306)
Adorno, T & Horkheimer, M  The dialectic of the enlightenment Routledge 1969 (I93.)
Albrow, M  Globalization, knowledge and society Sage 1990 (301.01)
Anderson,  Hughes & Sharrock Philosophy and the human sciences Croom Helm 1986 (190)
Aronson, R  Philosophy in the world Verso 1980 (142.78)
Appignanesi, R  Marx for beginners Writers & Readers 1976 (335.4092)
Appignanesi, R & Garrat, C  Postmodernism for beginners Cambridge 1995 (306.)

B

Benton, T  Philosophical foudations of the three sociologies Routledge 1977 (301.01)
Berger, PL  Modernisation and religion Economic & Social Research Institute 1981 (261.8)
Berger, PL & Luckman, T The social construction of reality  Penguin 1967 (306.42)
Berman, M  All that is solid melts into air Penguin 1983 (303.44)
Brody, J (ed)  The making of the modern mind Whitter 1995 (128.209)

C

Cahoone, L  From modernism to postmodernism: an anthology Blackwell  (199)
Campbell, K (ed)  Critical feminism: argument in the disciplines Milton Keynes 1992 (305.4201)
Cassirer, E  The philosophy of the enlightenment Princeton 1979 (194)
Childe, G  What happened in history London 1972 (on order)
Chukwadieze, E  Postcolonial African philosophy Blackwell 1997 (on order)
Cohen, I  Ideology and unconsciousness New York University  1982 (306)
Connor, S  Postmodernist culture Blackwell 1994 (306)
Copleston, F  A history of philosophy  Image  1993-1994 (190)
                 1: Greece and Rome
                 2: Medieval philosophy
                 3: Late medieval and renassance philosophy
                 4: Modern philosophy: from Descartes to Leibniz
                 5: Modern philosophy: the British philosophers from Hobbes to Hume
                 6: Modern philosophy: empiricism, idealism, and pragmatism in Britain and America
                 9: Modern philosophy: from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus and Levi-Strauss
Cottingham, J  The rationalists Oxford 1988 (149.7)

 D

Dickson, D  The new politics of science University of Chicago  1988 (306.45)
Docherty, T  Postmodernism: a reader Harvester  1993 (306)

E

Eagleton, T  The illusions of postmodernism Blackwell 1996 (on order)

F

Featherstone, M  Postmodernism Sage 1988 (306)
Fleming, E and O’Hara, B World religions and beliefs Gill & Macmillan 1995 (291)
Fukuyama, F  The end of history and the last man  Penguin 1992 (901)

G

Gaarder, Jostein  Sophie’s world: a novel about the history of philosophy  Phoenix, 1995 (839.82374)
Todd Gitlin  Twilight of common dreams: why America is wracked by cultural wars Metropolitan 1995 (305.0973)
Giddens, A  Sociology  Polity 1989 (301)
Green, K  The woman of reason Polity 1995 (144)
Griffiths, M and Whitford, M  Feminist perspectives in philosophy Macmillan 1988 (190.082)
Gross, P et al  (ed) The flight from science and reason New York Academy of Sciences 1996 (500)
Gross, P & Levitt, N Higher superstition Johns Hopkins UP 1994 (on order)

H

Hall, S & Jacques M New times: the changing face of politics in the 1990s Lawrence & Wishart 1989 (320.9049)
Halfpenny, P Positivism & sociology: explaining social life Allen & Unwin 1982 (301.)
Hamilton, Peter  Knowledge and social structure: an introduction Routledge 1974 (121)
Haralambos, M  Sociology: themes and perspectives Collins  1991 (301)
Harding, S  Feminism & methodology Milton Keynes 1987 (300.)
Hick, J  Philosophy of religion Prentice Hall 1990 (200.1)
Hobsbawm, E  Age of extremes Random House 1994 (909.82)
Hobsawm, E  On history  Weidenfeld &  Nicolson, 1997 (on order)
Hof, I  The enlightenment Blackwell 1994 (940.253)
Hollingale, RJ  Western philosophy: an introduction  Kahn & Averill 1979 (190.9)
Howard, D  The Marxian legacy  Basingstoke 1988 (335.40904)

J

Jameson, F  Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism Verso 1990 (306)
Jenkins, C  The post-modern reader Academy 1992 (306)

K

Kaplan, E  Postmodernism and its discontents Verso 1990 (306)
Kauffman, LS  American feminist thought at century's end: a reader New York 1993 (305.420973)
Kearney, R  Modern movements in European philosophy Manchester University 1984 (190.904)
Kearney, R  The wake of imagination Hutchinson 1988 (128.3)
Kenny, A  Tragic sense of life Dover  1954 (196)
Kenny, A  Wittgenstein Penguin 1973 (192.)
Kering, A  The Oxford illustrated history of western philosophy Oxford UP 1997 (on order)
Koyre, A  From the closed world to the infinite universe London 1957 (on order)
Kundera, M  After the revolution Penguin (321.094)

M

Macquarrie, J  Twentieth-century religious thought SCM, 1988 (200.1)
Mannheim, K  The structures of  thinking Routledge 1982 (306.00)
Mannheim, K  Ideology and knowledge Routledge 1976 (on order)
McLuhan, M  The Gutenberg galaxy Routledge 1962 (001.5)
McLuhan, M  The global village: transformations in world life Oxford UP 1989 (302.234)

N

Norris, C  The truth about postmodernism Blackwell 1994 (142.3)
Norris, C  Uncritical theory Lawrence & Wishart 1992 (on order)
Novack, G  The origins of materialism  Pathfinder 1995 (146.3)

O

Osborne, R & Edney, R Philosophy for beginners Writers & Readers 1992 (100)

P

Palmer, D  Sartre for beginners Writers & Readers 1995 (194)
Page, B (ed) Marxism and spirituality: an international anthology Bergin & Garvey, 1993 (335.401)
Parekh, B  Marx’s theory of ideology Croom Helm 1982 (145)
Passmore, J  A hundred years of philosophy  Penguin 1968 (192)
Plant, R  Hegel: an introduction Oxford 1983 (320.5092)
Popkin, R, Stroll, A, Kelly, AV  Philosophy made simple WH Allen 1973 (190)
Popper, Karl  The poverty of historicism TJ Press 1984 (146)

R

Robertson, R  Sociology of religion: selected readings Penguin 1969 (306.6)
Rorty, R  Philosophy and the mirror of nature Oxford 1980 (191.)
Rose, M  The postmodern and the post-industrial Cambridge U P 1992 (306)
Rush, M  Politics and society: an introduction to political sociology  Harvester  1992 (306.2)
Russell, B  History of western philosophy Routledge 1994 (190.9)
Ryan, A  After the end of history Collins & Brown 1992 (on order)

S

Said, E  Culture and imperialism Vintage 1993 (on order)
Sartre, JP Being and nothingness Washington Square  1956 (142.78)
Sartre, JP  Between existentialism and marxism New Left Books 1974 (194)
Sarup, M  An introductory guide to post-structuralism & post-modernism Harvester  1993 (190.)
Sassoon, D  100 Years of Socialism  Fontana  1997
Schacht, R  Classic modern philosophers: Descartes to Kant Routledge 1993 (190)
Schwarz, B  On ideology Hutchinson 1983 (145)
Scruton, R     A short history of modern philosophy: from Descartes to Wittgenstein Routledge 1995 (190)
Sheehan, H  Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history  Humanities 1993 (146.32)
Skillen, A  Ruling illusions: philosophy and the social order Gregg  1977 (on order)
Slaughter, C  Marx & Marxism Harlow 1985 (335.4)
Solomon, R  Continental philosophy since 1750: the rise & fall of the self Oxford 1988 (190.9)
Stacey, M  Women, power and politics Tavistock  1981 (306.2)
Stumpf, S  Philosophy: history and problems McGraw-Hill 1994 (190)
Swingewood, A  A short history of sociological thought Machmillan 1984 (301.09)

T

Tarnas, R  The passion of the western mind Ballantine  1991 (190)
Timpanaro, S  On materialism Verso 1980 (146.3)
Turner, B  Theories of modernity and postmodernity Sage 1988 (303.4833)

U

Urwin & Paterson Politics in Western Europe today: perspectives, policies and problems since 1980 Longman 1990 (940.558)

W

Williams, J  PC Wars Routledge 1995 (on order)
Warnock, M  Women philosophers Everyman 1996 (190.082)
Wilson, B  Contemporary transformations of religion Clarendon 1979 (209.04)
Woolhouse, R  The empiricists Oxford U P 1988 (146.44)
 

Y

Yolton, J The Blackwell companion to the enlightenment Blackwell 1995 (940.2530)

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