Book Series
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
New & Published Titles:
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science
A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas
This book explores the writings of Gadamer and Habermas on hermeneutics and the methodology of the social sciences. By re-examining their views of earlier interpretive… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24972-0 (Routledge)
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Hayek's Liberalism and Its Origins
His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment
By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek's theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18322-2 (Routledge)
Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20802-4 (Routledge)
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The Intellectual as Stranger
Studies in Spokespersonship
The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20584-9 (Routledge)
Post-Marxism
An Intellectual History
This book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21814-6 (Routledge)
Durkheim's Suicide
A Century of Research and Debate
Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20582-5 (Routledge)
The Reading of Theoretical Texts
Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20772-0 (Routledge)
Durkheim and Representations
Durkheim's sociological thought is based on the premise that the world cannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, rough approximations… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19090-9 (Routledge)
The Nature of Capital
Marx after Foucault
The synthesis of Marx and Foucault has traditionally been seen within the social sciences as deeply problematic. The author overturns this received wisdom by subjecting… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19861-5 (Routledge)
Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory
A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar
This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens,… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18953-8 (Routledge)
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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