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1. Popular Sovereignty in the West

   Polities, Contention, and Ideas

   By Geneviève Nootens

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   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...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Pliny’s Defense of Empire

   By Thomas R. Laehn

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Gramsci and Global Politics

   Hegemony and resistance

   Edited by Mark McNally, John Schwarzmantel

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best-known concepts – hegemony, civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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