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.
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 ...
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 ...