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.
Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History
1st Edition
By Craig Browne
May 06, 2025
Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History is an innovative work of synthesis, critique and analysis. It presages a social theory perspective that recognizes the constitutive significance of the political imaginary in modernity. Social theory’s current dilemmas are ...
Fraternity as an Overlooked Element in Global Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Kulska, Anna M. Solarz
May 05, 2025
This collection of chapters explores the often-overlooked concept of fraternity, positioning it alongside freedom and equality as a vital pillar of political discourse from its ancient origins to contemporary practice. In a comprehensive framework, the book delves into fraternity's evolving ...
Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory: A study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists
1st Edition
By Vasilis Grollios
May 05, 2025
Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought. Vasilis Grollios argues that these ...
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By Ryan McVeigh
April 14, 2025
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on, ...
Creating Democracy: Arendt and Bakhtin in Dialogue
1st Edition
By Charles Hersch
February 03, 2025
Creating Democracy brings into dialogue for the first time two important theorists of democracy: Hannah Arendt (1906–75) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–975). Their shared conception of democracy stemming from their encounters with totalitarian governments – Nazi Germany for Arendt and Stalinist Russia ...
Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies
1st Edition
By David A. J. Richards
January 30, 2025
In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies, David A. J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late eighteenth-century constitutionalism, Edmund Burke and James Madison, at a time when two great ...
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 ...