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.
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...
Complexity, Society and Social Transactions: Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory
1st Edition
By Thomas Whalen
January 17, 2019
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this ...
Elementary Forms of Social Relations: Status, power and reference groups
1st Edition
By Theodore D. Kemper
January 17, 2019
Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is ...
Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview
1st Edition
By Robert Bickel
January 17, 2019
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of ...
Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism: Towards a General Theory
1st Edition
By John Love
January 17, 2019
This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber’s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter’s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the ...