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.
Durkheim's Suicide: A Century of Research and Debate
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
The Reading of Theoretical Texts
1st Edition
By Peter Ekegren
April 02, 2014
Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation ...
Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar
1st Edition
By Nigel Pleasants
April 02, 2014
This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the quest for an alternative Wittgensteinian theory of social and political life, the author shows ...
Deleuze, Marx and Politics
1st Edition
By Nicholas Thoburn
March 31, 2014
A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work, The Grandeur of Marx. This book explores the core categories of communism and ...
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
1st Edition
By Tibor R. Machan
February 25, 2014
In Classical Individualism, Tibor R. Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identifies, develops and defends what he calls classical individualism - an individualism humanised by classical philosophy, rooted in Aristotle rather than Hobbes. This book does not reject the ...
Individualism in Modern Thought: From Adam Smith to Hayek
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Infantino
February 25, 2014
This book is a comprehensive survey of methodological individualism in social, political and economic thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Exploring the works of such figures as de Mandeville, Smith, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this study ...
Goffman and Social Organization: Studies of a Sociological Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Smith
February 14, 2014
Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era. His close observation of everyday life and his concern with the ways in which people play roles and manage the impressions they present to each other led to his pioneering creation of a new...
The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma
1st Edition
By Michael Humphrey
February 13, 2014
The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey ...
Hayek's Liberalism and Its Origins: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Christina Petsoulas
December 12, 2013
By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek's theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism. This book is an original contribution to the debate, and vital reading for researchers in politics, political ...