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.
Deconstructing Happiness: Critical Sociology and the Good Life
1st Edition
By Jordan McKenzie
December 10, 2019
This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can encourage or impede genuine efforts to live a good life by deconstructing the concepts of happiness and contentment within...
Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy
1st Edition
By Omedi Ochieng
December 10, 2019
What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions...
Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason
1st Edition
By Matan Oram
December 10, 2019
Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the ‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault's thought.This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of ...
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary
1st Edition
By Arpad Szakolczai
December 10, 2019
This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions, to be traced to economic, technological or political factors, but is the outcome of social, cultural and spiritual processes. ...
Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation
1st Edition
By Mark Featherstone
December 10, 2019
The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed ...
Progressive Violence: Theorizing the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Michael Blain, Angeline Kearns-Blain
October 17, 2019
This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the discipline’s tendency to idealize society in an attempt to legitimize the idea of progressive social change....
The Property-Owning Democracy: Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Gavin Kerr
July 12, 2019
The ideas of ‘predistribution’ and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal response to the problems of poverty, unemployment, economic insecurity, burgeoning socio-economic inequality, and economic instability, none of which the ...
Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship: The Unfinished Story of American Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodolfo Rosales
July 10, 2019
Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to bear a profound critique of a collective process that has historically excluded working class communities and communities of color from any real ...
Social Change in a Material World
1st Edition
By Theodore R. Schatzki
May 22, 2019
Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of ...
Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By John Rundell, Jonathan Pickle
April 15, 2019
Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and ...
Hubris and Progress: A Future Born of Presumption
1st Edition
By Carlo Bordoni
April 01, 2019
This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and believed to be punished by the gods, it developed from a need for our survival to a habit, as humanity has subdued animals, dominated nature, increased...
Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Cordero
March 22, 2019
Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question...