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1. Gambling, Freedom and Democracy

   By Peter J. Adams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion. This book focuses specifically on harms to democratic systems. It...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Deconstructing Habermas

   By Lasse Thomassen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Mythological State and its Empire

   By David Grant

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Psychology and Politics of the Collective

   Groups, Crowds and Mass Identifications

   Edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds, and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances? History offers endless examples of different forms of human collectivity, both private and public, small-scale and large: from the primal horde to the modern...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Environmental Solidarity

   How Religions Can Sustain Sustainability

   By Pablo Martínez de Anguita

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements. The environmental crisis has called the religions of the world to respond by finding their voice within the larger Earth community. At the same time, a certain religiosity has started to...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law

   By William E. Scheuerman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jürgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Globalizing Dissent

   Essays on Arundhati Roy

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   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, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Hegemony

   Studies in Consensus and Coercion

   Edited by Richard Howson, Kylie Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization. The reason that hegemony...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

    By Mark G.E. Kelly

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge