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.
Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmelo Lombardo, Lorenzo Sabetta
December 18, 2024
The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones. Concerned with the structures of ...
Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Szymon Wróbel, Krzysztof Skonieczny
November 28, 2024
Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists. With attention to questions about the manner in which the advent of the information age has shaped capitalism, the...
Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 31, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the ...
Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Caraus, Camil Alexandru Parvu
October 14, 2024
The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching ...
Innovation Contested: The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries
1st Edition
By Benoît Godin
October 14, 2024
Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public ...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 1
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 14, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on ...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 14, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on ...
Radical Civility: A Study in Utopia and Democracy
1st Edition
By Jason Caro
October 09, 2024
Radical Civility unearths civility’s extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that transpose utopia upon the stingy politics of likelihood, and by offering a vision of citizens who find purpose in dignifying each other. Jason Caro takes ...
Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences
1st Edition
By Christoforos Bouzanis
October 09, 2024
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights ...
Utopia without Ideology
1st Edition
By Ambrogio Santambrogio
October 09, 2024
This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary, ideology, and utopia, in a manner that renders the individual definitions consistent with one another as part of a single and general conceptual ...
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Ľubomír Dunaj, Jeremy Smith, Kurt Mertel
October 08, 2024
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Jóhann P. Árnason. In order to do justice to Árnason’s seminal and wide-ranging contributions to sociology, social theory...
The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies
1st Edition
By Matt Dawson
October 08, 2024
This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheim’s normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological critique and search for alternatives. With attention ...