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.
Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalie J. Doyle, Sean McMorrow
September 25, 2023
This book presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet’s interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary Western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism. Responding to Gauchet’s analysis, international ...
Max Weber and the Path from Political Economy to Economic Sociology
1st Edition
By Christopher Adair-Toteff
September 25, 2023
This book examines the largely-neglected shift in Max Weber’s work from political economy to economic sociology. Considering the importance of his recognition—made during his research on the Protestant Ethic—of the reciprocal influences that exist between economics and society and the role of this ...
The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Scimecca
August 04, 2023
This book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the materialist epistemology of contemporary sociology, which provides only a limited understanding of social behavior. Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the ...
Temporal Regimes: Materiality, Politics, Technology
1st Edition
By Felipe Torres
May 31, 2023
Temporal Regimes provides a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal structures of society; a conceptually rich, empirically nuanced and culturally embodied account of temporal phenomena in contemporary world. What does it imply temporal regimes? How the everyday life as well as the ...
The World as Idea: A Conceptual History
1st Edition
By Charles P. Webel
May 31, 2023
In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity—that of "the world." Webel traces the development of "the world" through the past, depicting the history of the world as an intellectual construct from its roots in ...
Critical Theory and New Materialisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hartmut Rosa, Christoph Henning, Arthur Bueno
January 09, 2023
Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory and new materialism – this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought. With a ...
Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Shove
November 11, 2022
Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and health, arguing that these are outcomes of the ways in which social practices interact and combine across space and time. ...
Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 1
1st Edition
By Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
September 26, 2022
Investigating Karl Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society. Through a set of fundamental contributions to epistemology...
Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science: The Lost Heritage
1st Edition
By Peter Sohlberg
September 26, 2022
An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematised in the classic structural-functional research tradition, which is presented in Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. In contrast to ...
Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies
1st Edition
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By Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron
August 01, 2022
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth...
From Hitler to Codreanu: The Ideology of Fascist Leaders
1st Edition
By Carlos Manuel Martins
August 01, 2022
This book examines fascist ideology in seven leaders of parties and movements in the interwar period. It makes use of the conceptual morphological approach, focused on core and adjacent concepts, as well as on the interlinkages between them. With such an approach, the book seeks to offer an ...
The Fascist Temptation: Creating a Political Community of Experience
1st Edition
By David Ohana
August 01, 2022
This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience. The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. This ...