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.
Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 1
1st Edition
By Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
September 26, 2022
Investigating Karl Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society. Through a set of fundamental contributions to epistemology...
Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science: The Lost Heritage
1st Edition
By Peter Sohlberg
September 26, 2022
An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematised in the classic structural-functional research tradition, which is presented in Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. In contrast to ...
Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron
August 01, 2022
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth...
From Hitler to Codreanu: The Ideology of Fascist Leaders
1st Edition
By Carlos Manuel Martins
August 01, 2022
This book examines fascist ideology in seven leaders of parties and movements in the interwar period. It makes use of the conceptual morphological approach, focused on core and adjacent concepts, as well as on the interlinkages between them. With such an approach, the book seeks to offer an ...
The Fascist Temptation: Creating a Political Community of Experience
1st Edition
By David Ohana
August 01, 2022
This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience. The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. This ...
The Politics of Well-Being: Towards a More Ethical World
1st Edition
By Anthony M. Clohesy
May 30, 2022
The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the book is that ethical life requires political engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical thinking. It is argued that these ...
A Marxist Theory of Ideology: Praxis, Thought and the Social World
1st Edition
By Andrea Sau
April 29, 2022
This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective. Advancing beyond the schemas of discussion presented in current Marxist literature, the author offers an account of how the concept of ideology should be defined and what role it plays within historical materialism. ...
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole
1st Edition
By Thomas Tsakalakis
April 29, 2022
This book explores the nature of political correctness as but one of the faces of today’s widespread sociocultural hypocrisy; it is a critique of a phenomenon that constitutes a threat to the Enlightenment hope that humanity might one day achieve maturity. The author identifies political ...
Stupidity in Politics: Its Unavoidability and Potential
1st Edition
By Nobutaka Otobe
April 29, 2022
Stupidity permeates our perception and practice of politics. We frequently accuse politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, voters, "elites," and "the masses" for their stupidities. In fact, it is not only "populist politicians," "sensational journalism," and "uneducated voters" who are accused of ...
The Individual After Modernity: A Sociological Perspective
1st Edition
By Mira Marody
April 29, 2022
Moving beyond the individualisation paradigm in sociological theory, this book develops an approach to the analysis of human activities and the social phenomena produced by them that centres on the processes that generate coordinated behaviours among individuals. Emphasising the relational and ...
Anatomies of Modern Discontent: Visions from the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Henricks
March 04, 2022
This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences of discontent in modern societies. Exploring the important social and cultural conditions associated with modernity, it focuses on the contributions ...
Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject: A Theory of Ideology via Marcuse, Jameson and Žižek
1st Edition
By Jon Bailes
December 13, 2021
Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies. Through a critical examination of the social and ...