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.
Pliny’s Defense of Empire
1st Edition
By Thomas R. Laehn
July 16, 2015
Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels ...
Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols
May 21, 2015
Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin’s writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have examined his general political theory, but ...
John Stuart Mill - Thought and Influence: The Saint of Rationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Georgios Varouxakis, Paul Kelly
April 09, 2015
More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill’s ...
Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence
1st Edition
By Jonathan N. Badger
February 27, 2015
Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent ...
Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited
1st Edition
By David Smith, John Hiden
November 10, 2014
This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to ...
Kant and International Relations Theory: Cosmopolitan Community-building
1st Edition
By Dora Ion
November 10, 2014
This book challenges popular international relations theories that claim to be based on the political writings of Immanuel Kant, and sheds new light on the philosopher's perspective on peace.Through an analysis of Kant's philosophical work and political traditions of his time, as well as of ...
Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Daniel R. Brunstetter
November 10, 2014
Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...
Critical Theory and Democracy: Civil Society, Dictatorship, and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory
1st Edition
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By Enrique Peruzzotti, Martin Plot
September 11, 2014
This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive. Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic ...
Honor: A Phenomenology
1st Edition
By Robert L. Oprisko
September 11, 2014
Honor is misunderstood in the social sciences. The literature lacks both accuracy and precision in its conceptual development such that we no longer say what we mean because we have no idea what we’re saying. We use many terms to mean honor and mean many different ideas when we refer to honor. ...
Gramsci and Contemporary Politics: Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect
1st Edition
By Anne Showstack Sassoon
March 07, 2014
Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon's writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to Clinton and Blair; the collapse of communism to the regeneration of social democracy. Applying original...
Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory Between Critical Theory and Post-Marxism
1st Edition
By Mark Devenney
January 16, 2014
In addressing the political and theoretical debates between critical and post-Marxist theorists, this book discusses the politics of communication and rationality, subjectivity, sovereignty, ethics and deliberative democracy, considering questions such as:* Does the theory of communicative action ...
A Radical Green Political Theory
1st Edition
By Alan Carter
December 12, 2013
This volume is the first systematic, comprehensive and cogent environmental political philosophy. It exposes the relationships between the ever-worsening environmental crises, the nature of prevailing economic structures and the role of the modern state and concludes that the combination of these ...