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.
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 ...
Liberal Progressivism: Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Gordon Hak
May 31, 2023
In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are ...
Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation
1st Edition
By Jeffery L. Nicholas
May 31, 2023
In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world in which human beings extend their ...
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic
1st Edition
By James E. Crimmins
May 31, 2023
In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought. Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law...
The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy: A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen
1st Edition
By Pedro T. Magalhães
June 30, 2022
By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and ...
Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during War
1st Edition
By Avichai Levit
May 30, 2022
Freedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy. During war, however, national legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict this basic right. Under what circumstances can such laws be democratically legitimate? Avichai Levit argues that the degree of democratic legitimacy of laws that restrict ...
Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism
1st Edition
By David Miles
May 06, 2022
Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and ...
On Biopolitics: An Inquiry into Nature and Language
1st Edition
By Marco Piasentier
February 02, 2022
How do humans fit into the natural world? What are the political consequences of viewing humans as animals? On Biopolitics is the first scholarly attempt to answer these questions, bringing critical thought into dialogue with naturalism. Effectively demonstrating that biology cannot serve as a ...
Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom: Transcending Natural Rights
1st Edition
By Jeremy Seth Geddert
September 27, 2018
Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good. This book ...