Political Theory Books

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