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.
Social Change in a Material World
1st Edition
By Theodore R. Schatzki
May 22, 2019
Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of ...
Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By John Rundell, Jonathan Pickle
April 15, 2019
Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and ...
Hubris and Progress: A Future Born of Presumption
1st Edition
By Carlo Bordoni
April 01, 2019
This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and believed to be punished by the gods, it developed from a need for our survival to a habit, as humanity has subdued animals, dominated nature, increased...
Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Cordero
March 22, 2019
Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question...
Complexity, Society and Social Transactions: Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory
1st Edition
By Thomas Whalen
January 17, 2019
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this ...
Elementary Forms of Social Relations: Status, power and reference groups
1st Edition
By Theodore D. Kemper
January 17, 2019
Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is ...
Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview
1st Edition
By Robert Bickel
January 17, 2019
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of ...
Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism: Towards a General Theory
1st Edition
By John Love
January 17, 2019
This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber’s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter’s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the ...
Deciphering Goffman: The Structure of his Sociological Theory Revisited
1st Edition
By Ramon Vargas Maseda
October 18, 2018
Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work. Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both ...
Liberty, Toleration and Equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the Letters Concerning Toleration
1st Edition
By John William Tate
May 09, 2018
The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, Toleration and Equality examines the development of Locke’s ideal of toleration, from its beginnings, to the culmination of this development in Locke...
Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaspare M. Genna, Thomas O. Haakenson, Ian W. Wilson
April 25, 2018
The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large, unsustainable, sovereign debt. The crisis was European in scale, but hit some countries in the Eurozone harder than others. Despite the plethora of writings devoted to the economic ...
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought
1st Edition
By Simon Kow
April 09, 2018
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which ...