Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

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1. Rethinking Gramsci

   Edited by Marcus Green

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Antonio Gramsci's significant contribution to the fields of political and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad range of important political and cultural theorists from around the world and explains the...

   Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom

   ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later

   Edited by Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin’s writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have examined his general political theory, but...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Democracy and National Pluralism

   Edited by Ferran Requejo

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy

   Cities and Transcendence

   By Jonathan N. Badger

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Critical Theory and Democracy

   Civil Society, Dictatorship, and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory

   Edited by Enrique Peruzzotti, Martin Plot

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive. Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Honor: A Phenomenology

   By Robert L. Oprisko

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Honor is misunderstood in the social sciences. The literature lacks both accuracy and precision in its conceptual development such that we no longer say what we mean because we have no idea what we’re saying. We use many terms to mean honor and mean many different ideas when we refer to honor....

   Published July 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Tensions of Modernity

   Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

   By Daniel R. Brunstetter

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

   National Cultural Autonomy Revisited

   By David Smith, John Hiden

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Kant and International Relations Theory

   Cosmopolitan Community-building

   By Dora Ion

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book challenges popular international relations theories that claim to be based on the political writings of Immanuel Kant, and sheds new light on the philosopher's perspective on peace.Through an analysis of Kant's philosophical work and political traditions of his time, as well as of...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Democracy and Pluralism

    The Political Thought of William E. Connolly

    Edited by Alan Finlayson

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and...

    Published December 29th 2011 by Routledge