Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Reclaiming Representation: Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Brito Vieira
July 12, 2019
Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by making representation synonymous with ...
Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom: Transcending Natural Rights
1st Edition
By Jeremy Seth Geddert
September 27, 2018
Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good. This book ...
Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect
1st Edition
By David M. Bell
August 14, 2018
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the ...
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
1st Edition
By Christine Sypnowich
July 27, 2018
How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a ...
Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State
1st Edition
By Jens Borchert, Stephan Lessenich
May 09, 2018
Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, ...
Post-Politics in Context
1st Edition
By Ali Riza Taskale
March 07, 2018
As disciplines, Politics and International Relations remain dominated by ideas drawn from traditions of liberal internationalism and political realism in which political imagination is preoccupied with command and order, rather than with disruption and emancipation. Yet, they have failed to offer ...
Popular Sovereignty in the West: Polities, Contention, and Ideas
1st Edition
By Geneviève Nootens
February 12, 2018
This book is an inquiry into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty as it has been shaped by the struggles between rulers and ruled. It builds on the notion that a thorough analysis of how the idea of popular sovereignty emerges from, and interacts with, a political history of contention ...
The Temporality of Political Obligation
1st Edition
By Justin Chandler Mueller
January 24, 2018
The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations – what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reasons why we ought to obey their rules – have been traditionally conceptualized, justified, and ...
Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference: Hegel, Marx, and 21st Century Social Movements
1st Edition
By Brian C. Lovato
November 28, 2017
It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a ...
The Politics of Economic Life
1st Edition
By Martin Beckstein
October 13, 2017
In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a ‘philosophy’, promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualized forms of employee activism such as whistleblowing;...
Epistemic Liberalism: A Defence
1st Edition
By Adam James Tebble
June 07, 2017
In the wake of what has come to be called the ‘cultural turn’, it is often asked how the state should respond to the different and sometimes conflicting justice claims made by its citizens and what, ultimately, is the purpose of justice in culturally diverse societies. Building upon the work of a ...
Political Philosophy, Empathy and Political Justice
1st Edition
By Matt Edge
April 13, 2017
In this work, Matt Edge offers an innovative approach to political philosophy. He invites the reader to consider the question of political justice from an empathic perspective - if you were asked to construct a theory of justice acceptable to members of a community you were not yourself a part of, ...