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 Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By Ryan McVeigh
April 14, 2025
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on, ...
Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Roderick Condon
March 31, 2025
This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition ...
Four Philosophers and the Bomb: Russell, Aron, Jaspers, and Anders on Atomic Warfare
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, Francesco Raschi
February 11, 2025
In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Günther Anders) understood atomic warfare. With a chapter devoted to the philosophical ideas of each ...
Creating Democracy: Arendt and Bakhtin in Dialogue
1st Edition
By Charles Hersch
February 03, 2025
Creating Democracy brings into dialogue for the first time two important theorists of democracy: Hannah Arendt (1906–75) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–975). Their shared conception of democracy stemming from their encounters with totalitarian governments – Nazi Germany for Arendt and Stalinist Russia ...
Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies
1st Edition
By David A. J. Richards
January 30, 2025
In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies, David A. J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late eighteenth-century constitutionalism, Edmund Burke and James Madison, at a time when two great ...
Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmelo Lombardo, Lorenzo Sabetta
December 18, 2024
The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones. Concerned with the structures of ...
Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Szymon Wróbel, Krzysztof Skonieczny
November 28, 2024
Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists. With attention to questions about the manner in which the advent of the information age has shaped capitalism, the...
Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 31, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the ...
Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Caraus, Camil Alexandru Parvu
October 14, 2024
The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching ...
Innovation Contested: The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries
1st Edition
By Benoît Godin
October 14, 2024
Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public ...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 1
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 14, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on ...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 14, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on ...