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 Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
1st Edition
By Mark G.E. Kelly
February 23, 2012
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and ...
Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
1st Edition
By Deborah Cook
January 30, 2012
Theodor W. Adorno and Jnrgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social...
Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order
1st Edition
By Anthony De Jasay
November 24, 2011
Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy ...
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Majia Holmer Nadesan
July 29, 2011
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health,...
Democratic Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Fabienne Peter
May 16, 2011
This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a...
Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies: Learning to Live with the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Gough, Andrew Stables
May 06, 2011
Much of the world will be living in broadly "liberal" societies for the foreseeable future. Sustainability and security, however defined, must therefore be considered in the context of such societies, yet there is very little significant literature that does so. Indeed, much ecologically-oriented ...
Social Theory in Contemporary Asia
1st Edition
By Ann Brooks
March 14, 2011
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...
Pareto and Political Theory
1st Edition
By Joseph V. Femia
March 11, 2011
Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher’s importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism. Joseph V....
German Political Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Law
1st Edition
By Chris Thornhill
December 13, 2010
This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on ...
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education
1st Edition
By Mark Olssen
March 18, 2010
The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years. In moving beyond neoliberalism, social democratic arguments are once again coming to the fore; ...
Young Citizens and New Media: Learning for Democratic Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Dahlgren
March 18, 2010
This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena of social and research attention that has become compelling in recent years. The general international concern expressed of ...
Marxism & Scientific Socialism: From Engels to Althusser
1st Edition
By Paul Thomas
October 28, 2009
Engels declared at Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery that "just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history". Scientific socialism was the term Engels used to describe Marx's socio-economic philosophy and many later ...