Books for Political Theory Courses

Contemporary Political Theorists in Context

By Anthony M. Clohesy, Stuart Isaacs, Chris Sparks

This exciting new textbook presents a clear framework for students to understand how themes and issues in political thought have emerged and developed throughout the 20th Century. Charting the progression from the preoccupation with the boundaries of the modern state, through to the current debates...

Published March 23rd 2009 by Routledge

Judith Butler's Precarious Politics

Critical Encounters

Edited by Terrell Carver, Samuel A. Chambers

Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory. Each chapter is written by an acclaimed political theorist and concentrates on a particular aspect...

Published January 27th 2008 by Routledge

Judith Butler and Political Theory

Troubling Politics

By Samuel Chambers, Terrell Carver

Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge

Twentieth Century Political Theory

A Reader, 2nd Edition

Edited by Stephen Eric Bronner

A collaboration of more than 45 thinkers who form the "canon" of contemporary political thought--from John Dewey and Walter Benjamin to Malcolm X and Judith Butler. Twentieth Century Political Theory fuses the needs of the more traditional course with the rapidly changing and extremely influential...

Published November 7th 2005 by Routledge

Political Ideologies

An Introduction, 3rd Edition

By Vincent Geoghegan, Robert Eccleshall

This informative and widely-used text is now available in a third edition. Building on the success of previous editions, it continues to provide a clear and accessible introduction to the complexities of political ideologies. The latest edition of Political Ideologies: introduces and...

Published February 12th 2003 by Routledge