Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
About the Book Series
This series explores core issues in political philosophy and social theory. Addressing theoretical subjects of both historical and contemporary relevance, the series has broad appeal across the social sciences. Contributions include new studies of major thinkers, key debates and critical concepts.
The Politics of Commitment: Towards a Better Future for Humanity
1st Edition
By Anthony M. Clohesy
November 24, 2025
This book examines the nature of our commitment to the long-term survival of humanity. It addresses the lack of a sustainable and ethical commitment to a shared and binding future for the well-being of those who will come after us. While other texts focus on the threats to our survival such as ...
The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right
1st Edition
By Stefan Borg
November 19, 2025
In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism. Postliberalism, Borg argues, advances a distinct critique of liberalism, as well as an emphasis on the common good as a corrective to the perceived shortcomings of liberalism. The central ...
Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms
1st Edition
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By Alfonso Galindo Hervás
November 04, 2025
So far this century, the most developed democratic societies have witnessed the emergence of various extremist political movements. Some have nationalist connotations, others religious; there are right-wing and left-wing, pacifist and violent, with environmental or social motivations, etc. But they...
China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought
1st Edition
By Simon Kow
November 03, 2025
China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers. Like its predecessor volume, China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought, this book is distinctive in providing in-depth ...
The Reality of This World: Volume Two: The Fate of This World and The Future of Humanity
1st Edition
By Charles P. Webel
October 29, 2025
The Reality of this World analyzes one of the most influential concepts known to humanity-- "the world"-- focusing primarily on the material conditions of our existence. It is the companion to The World as Idea: A Conceptual History (Routledge, 2022). Together, the two volumes constitute “The Fate ...
Illuminating Max Weber’s Sociology of Law and Methodological Writings: Collected Essays
1st Edition
By Hubert Treiber
September 23, 2025
This volume of collected essays by Hubert Treiber, one of Weber’s leading interpreters and an authoritative expert on Weber’s sociology of law, brings a number of translated works to English-speaking readers, offering the opportunity to gain a fuller and a more accurate understanding of Max Weber’s...
Practice Theory and Process Philosophy: Towards a Sociology of Becoming
1st Edition
By Stanley Blue
September 10, 2025
This book breaks new ground in sociological theory, presenting a process-oriented practice theory for conceptualising and studying the dynamism, interconnectedness, and ongoing transformation of everyday social life. Drawing on process-inspired approaches from disciplines such as anthropology, ...
Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science
1st Edition
By Besnik Pula
August 29, 2025
In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change. This shift has enriched the field but also led to a deadlock regarding the meaning and status ...
Revisiting Social Theory: Challenges and Possibilities
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By D.V. Kumar
August 29, 2025
This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of ‘good’ social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical ...
Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis: Political Disillusion, Democracy, and Utopia
1st Edition
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By Maša Mrovlje, Alex Zamalin
August 29, 2025
Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion. The collection consists of new cutting-edge research essays written by an interdisciplinary mix of established and emerging scholars, bringing ...
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity
1st Edition
By Patrick Gamsby
August 22, 2025
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity. Henri Lefebvre is increasingly being recognized as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. Nevertheless, the ...
Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation: A Critical Perspective on Metapolitics and Democracy
1st Edition
By Alasdair J. Marshall
August 22, 2025
Assessing Vilfredo Pareto’s sociological reworkings of Machiavelli’s Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites. Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and ...