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.
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 ...
Rethinking State Theory
1st Edition
By Mark J Smith, Mark J. Smith
December 12, 2013
In the last two decades, objects of analysis such as 'the state' have increasingly been seen as uncertain and contested theoretical concepts. Mark J. Smith presents a counter argument that highlights how existing theoretical approaches can provide useful tools for understanding contemporary ...
Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Haddock, Peter Sutch
December 11, 2013
This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the wide-ranging debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy. By focusing on the challenge to mainstream liberal theory posed by the surge of interest in the rights of minority groups and subcultures within states, ...
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism
1st Edition
By John Grant
September 20, 2013
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to ...
Deleuze and World Politics: Alter-Globalizations and Nomad Science
1st Edition
By Peter Lenco
August 07, 2013
The central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics. Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze’s ...
Gramsci and Global Politics: Hegemony and resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark McNally, John Schwarzmantel
March 21, 2013
The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best-known concepts – hegemony, civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo, ...
Rethinking Gramsci
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Green
February 14, 2013
This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Antonio Gramsci's significant contribution to the fields of political and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad range of important political and cultural theorists from around the world and explains the...
Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Finlayson
February 17, 2012
William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and ...
Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch
June 23, 2011
An ideal new multi-disciplinary volume for students and scholars of philosophy, contemporary political theory, and international relations. This volume offers key insights into the work of the chief figures in the contemporary debate surrounding thin universalism and presents a ...
Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Dimova-Cookson, Peter Stirk
June 10, 2011
Multiculturalism is higher on the daily political agenda than it has ever been. Leading politicians and public commentators speak with an unparalleled bluntness about the perceived limitations of multiculturalism while representatives of cultural, minorities express concern about marginalisation. ...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg
February 08, 2011
This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural ...