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.
Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Ghosh
July 27, 2012
Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism. In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in...
Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies: Sultans and Savages
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
July 27, 2012
Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. These ...
The Contemporary Goffman
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Hviid Jacobsen
July 27, 2012
The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of everyday life discovered an emporium of useful, incisive and quite often humorous analyses, ...
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
1st Edition
By Amos Morris-Reich
March 13, 2012
The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic ...
Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
1st Edition
By William E. Scheuerman
February 23, 2012
Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jürgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by...
Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero
February 23, 2012
Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from ...
Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Howson, Kylie Smith
February 23, 2012
The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization. The reason that hegemony...
The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
1st Edition
By Mark G.E. Kelly
February 23, 2012
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and ...
Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
1st Edition
By Deborah Cook
January 30, 2012
Theodor W. Adorno and Jnrgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social...
Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order
1st Edition
By Anthony De Jasay
November 24, 2011
Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy ...
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Majia Holmer Nadesan
July 29, 2011
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health,...
Democratic Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Fabienne Peter
May 16, 2011
This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a...