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An introduction to the work of one of the most influential and forbidding thinkers of this century. Bowie examines Lacan's pioneering articles on Freud in the 1930s, his work as a psychoanalyst, and his role in the Parisian intellectual resurgence of the 1950s.

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Since his death in 1883, Marx has been revised, distorted and rediscovered. This work provides a survey of Marx's life and his contributions to the varied fields of history, economics and politics.

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Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.

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The biography of Donald Winnicott, a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spent nearly all of his professional life at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, London. His work and writing about children has been increasingly regarded as an influential contribution to psychoanalysis.

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An introduction to the work of the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. It analyzes Wittgenstein's two major works, the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and the "Philosophical Investigation", and sets his conclusions against the background of changes in the nature of philosophy in the 20th century.