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.
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 ...
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas
1st Edition
By Austin Harrington
December 12, 2013
This book explores the writings of Gadamer and Habermas on hermeneutics and the methodology of the social sciences. By re-examining their views of earlier interpretive theorists, from Wilhelm Dilthey to Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, it offers a radical challenge to their idea of the 'dialogue' ...
Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart
December 12, 2013
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists ...
Oppositional Discourses and Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Huspek
December 11, 2013
When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new...
Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ann Brooks, Theresa Devasahayam
October 25, 2013
Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about...