Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
About the Book Series
Routledge Innovators in Political Theory focuses on leading contemporary thinkers in political theory, highlighting the major innovations in their thought that have reshaped the field. Each volume collects both published and unpublished texts, and combines them with an interview with the thinker. The editorial introduction articulates the innovator’s key contributions in relation to political theory, and contextualises the writer’s work. Volumes in the series will be required reading for both students and scholars of 21st century politics.
James Tully: To Think and Act Differently
1st Edition
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By Alexander Livingston
January 29, 2024
James Tully’s scholarship has profoundly transformed the study of political thought by reconstructing the practice of political theory as a democratising and diversifying dialogue between scholars and citizens. Across his writings on topics ranging from the historical origins of property, ...
Iris Marion Young: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference
1st Edition
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By Michaele Ferguson, Andrew Valls
May 31, 2023
Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation who had a significant impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. She bridged many longstanding divides among political theorists, ...
Michael Paul Rogin: Derangement and Liberalism
1st Edition
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By Alyson Cole, George Shulman
December 13, 2021
Michael Paul Rogin’s scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. He reconstituted the field by opening it to an array of texts, performances, and methods previously considered beyond the purview of the discipline. His work addressed the relationship ...
Fred Dallmayr: Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
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By Farah Godrej
June 30, 2021
Fred Dallmayr’s work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the hegemony of a modern “subjectivity” at the heart of Western liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating alternative voices, claims and ideas. His ...
Jane Mansbridge: Participation, Deliberation, Legitimate Coercion
1st Edition
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By Melissa Williams
June 30, 2021
Jane Mansbridge’s intellectual career is marked by field-shifting contributions to democratic theory, feminist scholarship, political science methodology, and the empirical study of social movements and direct democracy. Her work has fundamentally challenged existing paradigms in both normative ...
John G. Gunnell: History, Discourses and Disciplines
1st Edition
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By Christopher C. Robinson
June 30, 2021
John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their relation to political science, the history of political thought, the philosophy of social science and political reality. His thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato, Wittgenstein and Austin, the Berkeley School ...
Richard E. Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism and Opalescent Individuality
1st Edition
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By P.E. Digeser
June 30, 2021
Richard E. Flathman is a ground-breaking theorist of key political concepts, a fierce defender of individuality, a close and original reader of Hobbes and an advocate of a willful conception of liberalism. In this volume P E Digeser draws together some of his key works. The collection is framed by ...
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, Action
1st Edition
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By Dean Mathiowetz
June 10, 2016
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that ...
George Kateb: Dignity, Morality, Individuality
1st Edition
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By John Seery
November 10, 2014
George Kateb’s writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy—sovereignty vested in the many—might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have ...
Ernesto Laclau: Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique
1st Edition
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By David Howarth
September 24, 2014
Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors...
Chantal Mouffe: Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and the Political
1st Edition
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By James Martin
July 01, 2013
Chantal Mouffe’s writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological and substantive ...
Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence
1st Edition
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By Terrell Carver, Samuel Chambers
June 13, 2012
Michael J. Shapiro’s writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws from his vast output of articles, chapters and books to provide a thematic yet integrated account of ...