Book Series
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
New & Published Titles:
Governmentality
Current Issues and Future Challenges
Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as…
read moreOctober 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99920-5 (Routledge)

Oppositional Discourses and Democracies
When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and…
read moreAugust 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80389-2 (Routledge)
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Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy
Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education
The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic…
read moreAugust 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95704-5 (Routledge)
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Reflexive Historical Sociology
This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence…
read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55862-4 (Routledge)
Marxism & Scientific Socialism
From Engels to Althusser
Engels declared at Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery that "just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law…
read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77916-6 (Routledge)

Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies
Sultans and Savages
Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers'…
read moreMay 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99928-1 (Routledge)
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Habermas
Rescuing the Public Sphere
If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities…
read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54374-3 (Routledge)

Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been…
read moreApril 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96323-7 (Routledge)
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Perspectives on Gramsci
Politics, culture and social theory
Antonio Gramsci is widely known today for his profound impact on social and political thought, critical theory and literary methodology. This volume brings together twelve…
read moreApril 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48527-2 (Routledge)

Globalizing Dissent
Essays on Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99559-7 (Routledge)
Series Details:
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.
Forthcoming Titles:
The Contemporary Goffman
Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen
To be published December 7th 2009
Hemingway on Politics and Rebellion
Edited by Lauretta Frederking
To be published March 15th 2010
Living With Markets
By Jeremy Shearmur
To be published March 30th 2010
