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.
Adam Smith's Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order
1st Edition
By Craig Smith
October 23, 2013
When Adam Smith published his celebrated writings on economics and moral philosophy he famously referred to the operation of an 'invisible hand'. Adam Smith’s Political Philosophy makes visible this hand by examining its significance in Smith’s political philosophy and relating it to similar ...
Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
By Graeme Garrard
October 23, 2013
The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment ...
John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression: The Genesis of a Theory
1st Edition
By K.C. O'Rourke
October 23, 2013
The arguments advanced in the second chapter of On Liberty (1859) have become the touchstone for practically every discussion of freedom of speech, yet the broader development of John Stuart Mill's ideas concerning intellectual liberty has generally been neglected. This work attempts to fill that ...
Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Stuart Sim
October 23, 2013
This book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by post-structuralism, postmodernism and second-wave feminism. It examines the history of dissenting tendencies within the Marxist tradition and ...
The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Wendy Motooka
October 23, 2013
Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and ...
The Genesis of Modernity
1st Edition
By Arpad Szakolczai
October 23, 2013
The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roots and sources of modernity.Drawing upon the conceptual tools of social theory and political ...
The Intellectual as Stranger: Studies in Spokespersonship
1st Edition
By Dick Pels
October 23, 2013
The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed case-studies, Pels examines the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and ...
The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization: Historical, Political and Theoretical Approaches to State Formation
1st Edition
By Tariq Amin-Khan
September 20, 2013
State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of...
The Political Thought of Andre Gorz
1st Edition
By Adrian Little
May 03, 2013
Andre Gorz is one of the most important contemporary socialist thinkers. He has acquired a reputation as an iconoclastic theorist who poses radical questions about the future of the Left. This is the first full length assessment of his work which critically evaluates all of his writings from the ...
Perspectives on Gramsci: Politics, culture and social theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Francese
April 09, 2013
Antonio Gramsci is widely known today for his profound impact on social and political thought, critical theory and literary methodology. This volume brings together twelve eminent scholars from humanities and social sciences to demonstrate the importance and relevance of Gramsci to their respective...
Deconstructing Habermas
1st Edition
By Lasse Thomassen
March 21, 2013
This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...
Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth
1st Edition
By Vincent Geoghegan
March 15, 2013
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - ...