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.
Theories of the Stranger: Debates on Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters
1st Edition
By Vince Marotta
June 30, 2020
In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we perceive ourselves is closely associated with those who are different and strange. This book explores the...
Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts: A Liberalism of Flourishing
1st Edition
By Menachem Mautner
April 28, 2020
This book claims that in addition to autonomy, liberal tradition recognizes human flourishing as an ideal of the good life. There are two versions of the liberalism of flourishing: for one the good life consists in the ability of an individual to develop her intellectual and moral capabilities, and...
Norbert Elias and the Analysis of History and Sport: Systematizing Figurational Sociology
1st Edition
By Joannes Van Gestel
January 14, 2020
In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on ‘the pieces of the puzzle’, the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background. Nonetheless, as humanity becomes ever more globalized, there is a greater need for in-depth ...
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity
1st Edition
By Ann Brooks
December 20, 2019
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional ...
The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism: The Liberal Spirit and the Making of Western Radicalism
1st Edition
By Daniel Fletcher
December 17, 2019
Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Žižek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom? Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism, Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards both ...
Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz�s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning
1st Edition
By Marius Ion Benţa
December 12, 2019
This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction ...
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media: Higher Diversities
1st Edition
By David Toews
December 12, 2019
Digital technology has vastly broadened and complexified social life, levelling opportunities for communication and producing a new awareness of the importance of diversity of social relations, as well as of life on the planet. This book explores the ways in which social media, by encouraging human ...
Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices: Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory
1st Edition
By Dimitri Ginev
December 12, 2019
Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective ...
Deconstructing Happiness: Critical Sociology and the Good Life
1st Edition
By Jordan McKenzie
December 10, 2019
This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can encourage or impede genuine efforts to live a good life by deconstructing the concepts of happiness and contentment within...
Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy
1st Edition
By Omedi Ochieng
December 10, 2019
What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions...
Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason
1st Edition
By Matan Oram
December 10, 2019
Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the ‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault's thought.This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of ...
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary
1st Edition
By Arpad Szakolczai
December 10, 2019
This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions, to be traced to economic, technological or political factors, but is the outcome of social, cultural and spiritual processes. ...