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 Intellectual Origins of Modernity
1st Edition
By David Ohana
June 30, 2021
The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, ...
Citizenship in a Globalised World
1st Edition
By Christine Hobden
June 11, 2021
What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re- evaluate and ultimately reorient our state- based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a globalised, deeply interconnected, and deeply unjust...
The Lived Experiences of Muslims in Europe: Recognition, Power and Intersubjective Dilemmas
1st Edition
By Des Delaney
April 01, 2021
This book unearths new knowledge and challenges existing paradigms in relation to the integration of minority communities. It comprehensively reflects upon the complexity of recognition experiences and integration challenges faced by Muslim individuals and groups in Europe. By focusing on ...
A Politics of Disgust: Selfhood, World-Making, and Ethics
1st Edition
By Eleonora Joensuu
March 31, 2021
This book explores the intersubjective nature of disgust, the fascination that often accompanies it—along with repulsion—and the ethical implications of the experience. With attention to what emotions do rather than what they necessarily are, it examines the ways in which disgust works to create ...
Nationalism, Inequality and England’s Political Predicament
1st Edition
By Charles Leddy-Owen
March 31, 2021
Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly original perspective on England’s contemporary political predicament. It argues that some of the most influential academic accounts of the country's current political situation, particularly those focusing on ...
Political Fraternity: Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality
1st Edition
By Angel Puyol
December 18, 2020
Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral virtue, but fraternity is also a political concept. The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy has gone to great lengths to analyse the ...
The Social Life of Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience
1st Edition
By Susie Scott
December 18, 2020
Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are ...
Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches
1st Edition
By Stefan Kühl
December 18, 2020
Using Marxist and systems theory as guides, this book offers an entry point to the current debate on the role of economy in modern society, the change in work organizations and the effect of the economy on the individual. It explores the concepts of ‘work society’, ‘industrial society’ and ‘...
Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey: Hobbes writes Homer
1st Edition
By Andrea Catanzaro
September 30, 2020
Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro ...
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century: The Skeptical Radicalism of Judith Shklar
1st Edition
By Giunia Gatta
August 14, 2020
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century offers an indispensable reexamination of the life, work, and interventions of a prominent liberal political theorist of the 20th century: Judith Shklar.Drawing on published and unpublished sources including Shklar’s correspondence, lecture notes, and other...
Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought: An Analysis of Social Interaction
1st Edition
By Tim Delaney
June 30, 2020
The notion of common sense and abiding by its implications is something that, seemingly, everyone agrees is a good way of making behavioral decisions and conducting one's daily activities. This holds true whether one is a liberal, moderate, or conservative; young or old; and regardless of one's ...
Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus
1st Edition
Edited
By Idit Alphandary, Leszek Koczanowicz
June 30, 2020
Arguing that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory examines the importance of dialogue for the achievement of understanding in civil society rather than consensus, so that democratic...