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.
Voluntarism and Self‑Interest: Psychological Foundations and Panarchist Visions in Libertarian Anarchism
1st Edition
By Davide Saracino
November 30, 2026
Voluntarism and Self-Interest: Psychological Foundations and Panarchist Visions in Libertarian Anarchism investigates a central question in political philosophy: what, if anything, makes political authority legitimate? The book argues that theories of political legitimacy should be evaluated ...
Democracy as Lived Experience: A Phenomenological Perspective
1st Edition
By Morris Bosin
October 13, 2026
With this book, Morris Bosin offers a phenomenological approach to understanding democracy, not as a static system of institutions, but as a lived experience shaped by perception, participation, and meaning making. In an era marked by polarization, civic disengagement, and algorithmic influence ...
Polarized Society: Class Divisions in the New Culture Wars
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
September 07, 2026
Polarized Society examines the profound divisions characterizing contemporary Western societies, where modern mass-affluent middle-class societies have transformed into postmodern class societies fractured along multiple lines of tradition, identity and participation in wealth and power. This ...
Through the Past to the Future: From Georg Simmel and Max Weber to the Twenty-First Century’s Public Intellectuals
1st Edition
By Christian Karner
August 11, 2026
Based upon a close reading of the foundational works of Georg Simmel, Max Weber and the Frankfurt School as well as underexplored other works, Karner critically maps the conceptual approaches and theoretical insights of the German language sociological tradition onto various twenty-first-century ...
Hegel and MacIntyre: Reason in History
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Lazarus, Caleb Bernacchio, Ahmad Fattah, David Kretz
August 05, 2026
Hegel and MacIntyre: Reason in History brings the work of foremost Anglophone moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre into dialogue with G. W. F. Hegel—two rationalist historicists whose affinities and tensions have often been noted, yet never before explored at book-length. The contributions in this ...
Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Roderick Condon
July 20, 2026
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 ...
American Fascism and the Battle over Culture: Social Theory, Moral Life, and the Renewal of Democratic Imagination
1st Edition
By Christopher G. Robbins, Eric Ferris
July 14, 2026
This book examines the intensification of fascist politics in contemporary America via an analysis of the fundamental shift in relationships between political fringes and institutions of power, situating the rise of contemporary fascist politics within a broader culture of pedagogy. Employing an ...
Illuminating Max Weber’s Sociology of Law and Methodological Writings: Collected Essays
1st Edition
By Hubert Treiber
July 08, 2026
This volume of collected essays by Hubert Treiber, one of Weber’s leading interpreters and an authoritative expert on Weber’s sociology of law, brings a number of translated works to English-speaking readers, offering the opportunity to gain a fuller and a more accurate understanding of Max Weber’s...
Populism, Demagoguery, and Tyranny: Contemporary Challenges to Constitutional Democracy
1st Edition
By Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt
July 08, 2026
In Populism, Demagoguery, and Tyranny, Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt examines the political challenges posed by populism to constitutional democracy, with a twofold aim of clarifying its impact and addressing it effectively. He combines conceptual history, history of political thought, political ...
Revisiting Cultural Rights: On the Plausibility and Efficacy of Differentiated Citizenship
1st Edition
By Ajay Raina
June 26, 2026
This book reevaluates the ‘consensus’ liberal view on minority cultural rights from a new, empirically informed perspective to argue that its justificatory machinery is not very persuasive, and that the normative goals of the view caninstead be efficaciously reached from within the classic liberal ...
Four Philosophers and the Bomb: Russell, Aron, Jaspers, and Anders on Atomic Warfare
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, Francesco Raschi
June 22, 2026
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 ...
Reason, Crisis, and Europe: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Piasentier, Panu-Matti Pöykkö
June 19, 2026
This volume examines the intertwined meanings of reason, crisis, and Europe against the backdrop of acute political, ethical, and geopolitical instability. Eschewing any singular diagnosis or overarching interpretive frame, it assembles a range of disciplinary, methodological, and normative ...