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.
Deciphering Goffman: The Structure of his Sociological Theory Revisited
1st Edition
By Ramon Vargas Maseda
October 18, 2018
Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work. Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both ...
Liberty, Toleration and Equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the Letters Concerning Toleration
1st Edition
By John William Tate
May 09, 2018
The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, Toleration and Equality examines the development of Locke’s ideal of toleration, from its beginnings, to the culmination of this development in Locke...
Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaspare M. Genna, Thomas O. Haakenson, Ian W. Wilson
April 25, 2018
The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large, unsustainable, sovereign debt. The crisis was European in scale, but hit some countries in the Eurozone harder than others. Despite the plethora of writings devoted to the economic ...
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought
1st Edition
By Simon Kow
April 09, 2018
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which ...
Phenomenology of Youth Cultures and Globalization: Lifeworlds and Surplus Meaning in Changing Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart R. Poyntz, Jacqueline Kennelly
March 07, 2018
This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up under contemporary conditions of globalization. Phenomenology is both a philosophical and pragmatic approach to social sciences research, that takes as ...
The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis: Challenging the Phantom of Liberty
1st Edition
By Onofrio Romano
March 07, 2018
The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved ...
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory
1st Edition
By Barbara Hanson
March 07, 2018
This book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - ...
Gramsci’s Critique of Civil Society: Towards a New Concept of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Marco Fonseca
January 24, 2018
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today. Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis critically dissects the institutions of modern liberal democracy to reveal what is perhaps its deepest secret: it is ...
Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States
1st Edition
Edited
By Aviezer Tucker, Gian Piero de Bellis
November 28, 2017
Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens. The explicit social contract, or a constitution, sets the terms under which a state may use...
Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share
1st Edition
Edited
By Camilla Boisen, Matthew C. Murray
October 26, 2017
Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and these answers have been diverse. This ...
Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Caraus, Elena Paris
October 26, 2017
Leading experts and rising stars in the field explore whether cosmopolitanism becomes impossible in the theoretical framework that assumed the absence of a final ground. The questions that the volume addresses refer exactly to the foundational predicament that characterizes cosmopolitanism: How is ...
Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bates, Iain MacKenzie, Sean Sayers
October 23, 2017
As austerity measures are put into place the world over and global restructuring is acknowledged by all as an attempt to bolster the economic system that lead to the crash, there is a great need to come to grips with the economic, political and philosophical legacy of Marx. Of particular interest ...