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.
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and interventions of a prominent liberal political theorist of the 20th century: Judith Shklar.Drawing on published and unpublished sources including Shklar’s correspondence, lecture notes, and other...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...
Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory
1st Edition
By Xiaoying Qi
June 30, 2020
This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to Chinese social and cultural concepts. It argues that the influence of globalization promotes the spread of West European and American social science ...
How Groups Matter: Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Gideon Calder, Magali Bessone, Federico Zuolo
June 30, 2020
When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/...
Imaginaries of Modernity: Politics, Cultures, Tensions
1st Edition
By John Rundell
June 30, 2020
This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays. Drawing centrally on the works of Castoriadis, Luhmann, Heller and Lefort, and in critical discussion with Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Adorno, Habermas and Taylor, the author argues that modernity ...
The Countercultural Logic of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By David Hancock
June 30, 2020
Why, since the financial crisis of 2008, has neoliberal capitalism remained seemingly impregnable? Why, when it is shown as no longer capable of delivering on its economic promises does its logic pervade all facets of contemporary life? How has it seduced us? This book examines the seductive appeal...
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 ...