Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics
1st Edition
By Thomas Randall
November 28, 2024
In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. Advancing the feminist literature, this book defends a vision of society that can best enable caring relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall ...
Constituent Power, Violence, and the State: The Political Thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt
1st Edition
By Dimitri Vouros
November 25, 2024
In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt in conversation with contemporary theories of sovereignty and constituent power. Vouros argues that the violence ...
Autonomy and Identity: The Politics of Who We Are.
1st Edition
By Ros Hague
October 14, 2024
Autonomy and Identity are key concepts in both political and feminist thought and have played central roles in both fields. Although there has been much academic work on both concepts there has arguably been little that has addressed the connections between autonomy and identity. Autonomy and ...
Liberal Democracy as the End of History: Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges
1st Edition
By Christopher Hughes
October 14, 2024
Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a ...
Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice
1st Edition
By Rhiannon Firth
October 14, 2024
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly...
Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism: The Legitimacy of the Life-World
1st Edition
By Michael F. Hickman
October 09, 2024
Drawing on Husserl’s concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence – the life-world. Michael F. Hickman offers a fresh return to the raw experience of politics ...
Ecological Relations: Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth
1st Edition
By Susan Board
June 24, 2024
International relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international ...
Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement
1st Edition
By David Golemboski
January 29, 2024
This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral, religious, and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an ...
Confucian Sentimental Representation: A New Approach to Confucian Democracy
1st Edition
By Kyung Rok Kwon
September 25, 2023
Kwon conceptualizes a unique mode of political representation in East Asian society, which derives its moral foundation from Confucian virtue politics. Contemporary East Asian societies understand democracy differently than Western societies do. Even citizens in consolidated democracies such as ...
On the Politics of Kinship
1st Edition
By Hannes Charen
September 25, 2023
In this book, Hannes Charen presents an alternative examination of kinship structures in political theory. Employing a radically transdisciplinary approach, On the Politics of Kinship is structured in a series of six theoretical vignettes or frames. Each chapter frames a figure, aspect, or ...
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries
1st Edition
By Richard Shorten
September 25, 2023
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process. Rather than taking self-contradictions in the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment, complexity is taken as a challenge. ...
Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernat Torres, Josep Monserrat Molas
May 31, 2023
Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century. Across six chapters, experts guide the reader from classical to modern times presenting six ...