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.
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...
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...