Political Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the French New Right

   Alternatives to Modernity

   By Tamir Bar-On

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries. This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Justice, Order and Anarchy

   The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   By Alex Prichard

   Series: New International Relations

   This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. National Myths

   Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

   Edited by Gérard Bouchard

   National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals)

   A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Mythology, Globalization and World Order

   Power, and Deception in the Global Political Economy

   By Mark Bailey

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book investigates the role that myth plays in constructing and legitimating forms of world order. Using a combination of political philosophy, anthropology, Jungian depth psychology, and IPE approaches, the book demonstrates why theorisation of the role of myth within the discourses of...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Democratic Transitions

   Modes and Outcomes

   By Gary A Stradiotto, Sujian Guo

   Series: Democratization Studies

   The core research questions were driven by a common theme—what makes democracies succeed and/or fail and does the mode of transition influence the quality of democracy and the longevity or durability of democracy? The transition literature falls short in creating generalizable conclusions about the...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Deprovincializing Habermas

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Tom Bailey

   Series: Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought

   This volume engages with Jürgen Habermas’s political theory from critical perspectives, beyond its Western European origins. In particular, it explores the neglected challenges of democratizing, decolonizing and desecularizing his theory for global contexts, and proposes its ‘deprovincializing’...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge India
8. Radical Left Parties in Europe

   By Luke March

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview of the main developments in contemporary European radical left parties (those defining themselves as to the left of,...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Arab Spring

   Critical Analyses

   Edited by Khair Haseeb

   This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspective of Western scholarship from the outside looking...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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