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.
Tocqueville's Political and Moral Thought: New Liberalism
1st Edition
By M.R.R Ossewaarden
December 22, 2014
First Published in 2004. The nineteenth-century French statesman and political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville described himself as a ‘liberal of a new kind’. This book is a significant contribution to a better understanding of liberalism and of the distinctive character of Tocqueville’s liberalism ...
The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty?
1st Edition
By Anthoula Malkopoulou
December 19, 2014
Is voting out of fashion? Does it matter if voters don't show up at the polls? If yes, is legal enforcement of voting compatible with democracy? These are just a few of the questions linked to the thorny problem of electoral abstention. This book addresses the hot question whether there is a duty ...
Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy
1st Edition
By John Girling
December 01, 2014
Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to overcome the contradiction of two important processes of our time: capitalism and democracy. In this new study of the phenomenon, the author shows how corruption is the practice of ...
Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works
1st Edition
By Arpad Szakolczai
August 12, 2014
Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a substantial resurgence of interest in their writings. The ...
Environmental Solidarity: How Religions Can Sustain Sustainability
1st Edition
By Pablo Martínez de Anguita
July 03, 2014
The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements. The environmental crisis has called the religions of the world to respond by finding their voice within the larger Earth community. At the same time, a certain religiosity has started to ...
Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants
April 24, 2014
At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical ...
The Psychology and Politics of the Collective: Groups, Crowds and Mass Identifications
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
April 09, 2014
What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds, and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances? History offers endless examples of different forms of human collectivity, both private and public, small-scale and large: from the primal horde to the modern ...
Durkheim and Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By W. S. F. Pickering
April 02, 2014
Durkheim's sociological thought is based on the premise that the world cannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, rough approximations of the world created either individually or collectively. This set of papers by leading Durkheimians from Britain, America and ...
Durkheim's Suicide: A Century of Research and Debate
1st Edition
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By W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford
April 02, 2014
Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as ...
On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life
1st Edition
Edited
By N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller
April 02, 2014
This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including:*...
Property and Power in Social Theory: A Study in Intellectual Rivalry
1st Edition
By Dick Pels
April 02, 2014
Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad ...
The Nature of Capital: Marx after Foucault
1st Edition
By Richard Marsden
April 02, 2014
The synthesis of Marx and Foucault has traditionally been seen within the social sciences as deeply problematic. The author overturns this received wisdom by subjecting both thinkers to an original re-reading through the lens of the philosophy of critical realism.The result is an illuminating ...