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.
Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance
1st Edition
By Michal Aharony
April 27, 2017
Responding to the increasingly influential role of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy in recent years, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance, critically engages with Arendt’s understanding of totalitarianism. According to Arendt, the main goal ...
Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Brahm Levey
March 14, 2017
The concept of "authenticity" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals’ autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being ...
Rosa Luxemburg in Action: For Revolution and Democracy
1st Edition
By Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
March 14, 2017
Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life, this book examines Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolution and democracy and how the two are bound together by her views on the importance of political action. Stretching, historically, ...
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By David Lemmings, Ann Brooks
December 08, 2016
This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias’s theory of the "civilizing process," through historical essays and contemporary analysis from sociologists and cultural theorists. It focuses on changes in emotional regimes or styles and considers the intersection of emotions ...
The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek
1st Edition
By Geoff Pfeifer
November 23, 2016
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser’s materialism as a starting point—which, as Pfeifer shows, was built partially as...
The Metaphysics of Technology
1st Edition
By David Skrbina
November 07, 2016
What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then ...
John Rawls and the History of Political Thought: The Rousseauvian and Hegelian Heritage of Justice as Fairness
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Bercuson
August 03, 2016
In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. While the well-documented influence of Immanuel Kant on ...
Gramsci, Materialism, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Esteve Morera
May 31, 2016
Western critical theory, Marxism included, has largely been based on a view of historical materialism that Gramsci, among others, developed in his prison notebooks. For many, Gramsci’s philosophical reflections in prison offered a new foundation for the philosophy of the future. His ...
The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Gary B. Madison
May 31, 2016
Madison uses the concept of civil society and his distinctive version of 'communicative rationality' to provide a closely-argued and robust defence of the neo-liberal political and economic tradition. Writing with considerable elegance and humour, the author draws on the hermeneutical and ...
Freedom and Culture in Western Society
1st Edition
By Hans Blokland
May 26, 2016
Critically examining conceptions of freedom of some of the leading contemporary philosophers from Isaiah Berlin to Charles Taylor, Hans Blokland explores the value and significance that freedom has acquired on our political consciousness. He looks specifically at: * positive and negative freedom *...
Reconstructing Social Justice
1st Edition
By Lauretta Conklin Frederking
December 01, 2015
The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social Justice presents a new framework for social justice that will change the way people think about social justice and change the way people implement social...
The Politics of Rationality: Reason through Occidental History
1st Edition
By Charles Webel
December 01, 2015
What are reason and rationality? How significant are recent postmodernist and neuroscientific challenges to these longheld notions? Should we abandon a belief in reason and an adherence to rationality? Or can reason and rationality be reformulated and reframed? And what does politics have to do ...