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.
When Illiberalism Unsettles Democracy: Origins, Perils, and Prospects of the Unruly Will of the People
1st Edition
By Felippe Ramos
February 23, 2027
In this provocative exploration of modern democracy, Felippe Ramos challenges the prevailing narrative that liberal democracy is on the brink of collapse. Rather than merely condemning illiberal politics and populism, the book delves into the long-term historical and philosophical roots of ...
Democratizing Critique: Social and Political Philosophy after James Bohman
1st Edition
Edited
By Kurt C. M. Mertel, Just Serrano-Zamora, Gianfranco Casuso
January 29, 2027
This book advances current debates in social and political philosophy by providing the first comprehensive, critical engagement with the work of James Bohman. Inspired by his theoretical pluralism and his efforts to bridge philosophical traditions, it includes contributions to hermeneutics, ...
Illuminating Max Weber’s Sociology of Law and Methodological Writings: Collected Essays
1st Edition
By Hubert Treiber
December 31, 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...
Bourdieu and the Psychoanalysis of the Social: Socioanalysis
1st Edition
By Vera King
December 24, 2026
In Bourdieu and the Psychoanalysis of the Social, Vera King uses the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to explore one of the great challenges in social and cultural research: the question of how social and individual 'unconsciousness' are connected. This book shows how, with his concept of...
Rethinking Relating in the Anthropocene: A Politics for the Planetary Crisis
1st Edition
By Urszula Lisowska
December 15, 2026
This book explores the idea of the urgency and difficulty of relating across differences and is located at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy and ecological thought. Offering a model of relating across diversity, it develops this it into an understanding of politics, before showing ...
Political and Cultural Conflict Today: Clash of Modernities
1st Edition
By Bruce Fleming
December 01, 2026
Political and Cultural Conflict Today addresses the fierce animosity splitting factions in Western democracies, with a primary focus on the USA. The author demonstrates that today’s societal divisions stem from a collision between the two divergent forms of Modernity that emerged in the 17th and ...
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity
1st Edition
By Patrick Gamsby
November 24, 2026
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity. Henri Lefebvre is increasingly being recognized as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. Nevertheless, the ...
Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation: A Critical Perspective on Metapolitics and Democracy
1st Edition
By Alasdair J. Marshall
November 24, 2026
Assessing Vilfredo Pareto’s sociological reworkings of Machiavelli’s Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites. Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and ...
Sartre and Contemporary Political Theory: The Later Sartre and the Challenges of the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristian Klockars, Mattias Lehtinen, Austin Hayden Smidt
November 03, 2026
Does Jean-Paul Sartre's political theory have anything to offer to us today? Are Sartre's ways of reflecting on ethics, praxis, society and political philosophy in terms of hope for a better world, a better future, of interest today? This edited volume brings together Sartre scholars to address the...
Voluntarism and Self‑Interest: Psychological Foundations and Panarchist Visions in Libertarian Anarchism
1st Edition
By Davide Saracino
October 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 a Lived Experience: A Phenomenological Perspective
1st Edition
By Morris Bosin
October 18, 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 ...
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and ‘Nietzsche’s Paradox’: The Missing Debate Between Adorno and Deleuze Over Dialectics
1st Edition
By Nektarios Kastrinakis
October 15, 2026
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and ‘Nietzsche’s Paradox’ addresses a fundamental question in the exchange between Critical Theory and poststructuralism: is poststructuralism justified in its critique of dialectical thinking and in the conclusion of this critique that we need to leave dialectics...