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.
Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society
1st Edition
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By Jerome Braun, Lauren Langman
February 27, 2013
This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern ...
Gambling, Freedom and Democracy
1st Edition
By Peter J. Adams
November 28, 2012
As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion. This book focuses specifically on harms to democratic systems. It ...
The Mythological State and its Empire
1st Edition
By David Grant
October 10, 2012
We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining ...
The Structure of Social Theory
1st Edition
By Anthony King
September 10, 2012
Drawing on the work of Gadamer, the book demonstrates that a sociology which focuses on social relations does not imply a return to idealism, nor a retreat into individualism, nor a rejection of critique. Rather, a hermeneutic sociology which prioritises human social relations is the only coherent ...
Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges
1st Edition
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By Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann, Thomas Lemke
September 05, 2012
Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. Contributors highlight the differences as well as possible ...
Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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
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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...