Political Theory 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. 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
4. 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
5. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Ideas to Die For

   The Cosmopolitan Challenge

   By Giles Gunn

   Series: Global Horizons

   Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Democracy and National Pluralism

   Edited by Ferran Requejo

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Pliny’s Defense of Empire

   By Thomas R. Laehn

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Gramsci and Global Politics

    Hegemony and resistance

    Edited by Mark McNally, John Schwarzmantel

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best-known concepts – hegemony, civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo,...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge