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New and Published Books

  1. The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    By Sandrine Berges

    Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

    Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Socialism and Religion

    Roads to Common Wealth

    By Vincent Geoghegan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola

    By Paul Furlong

    Series: Extremism and Democracy

    Julius Evola’s writing covered a vast range of subjects, from a distinctive and categorical ideological outlook and has been extremely influential on a significant number of extreme right thinkers, activists and organisations. This book is the first full length study in English to present his...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Politics of Exile

    By Elizabeth Dauphinee

    Series: Interventions

    Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured...

    Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  5. Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism

    By Geraldine Fagan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life. It reveals how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a...

    Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Politics of Speed

    Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

    By Simon Glezos

    Series: Interventions

    Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge

  7. 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 December 31st 2012 by Routledge

  8. Value of Tolerance

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge

  9. 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

  10. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa

    Five Decades of Misrule

    Edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o

    Series: Routledge African Studies

    Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge