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Routledge Innovations in Political Theory


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This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.

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Political Narratosophy From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination

Political Narratosophy: From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Senka Anastasova
August 31, 2023

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the ‘self’ and narrativity. Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and ...

Justice, Care, and Value A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics

Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Thomas Randall
July 21, 2023

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. Advancing the feminist literature, this book defends a vision of society that can best enable caring relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall ...

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

1st Edition

Edited By Bernat Torres, Josep Monserrat Molas
May 31, 2023

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century. Across six chapters, experts guide the reader from classical to modern times presenting six ...

Liberal Progressivism Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change

Liberal Progressivism: Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change

1st Edition

By Gordon Hak
May 31, 2023

In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are ...

Love and Politics Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation

Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation

1st Edition

By Jeffery L. Nicholas
May 31, 2023

In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world in which human beings extend their ...

Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic

Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic

1st Edition

By James E. Crimmins
May 31, 2023

In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought. Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law...

Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism The Legitimacy of the Life-World

Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism: The Legitimacy of the Life-World

1st Edition

By Michael F. Hickman
April 21, 2023

Drawing on Husserl’s concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence – the life-world. Michael F. Hickman offers a fresh return to the raw experience of politics ...

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement

1st Edition

By David Golemboski
July 29, 2022

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral, religious, and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an ...

The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen

The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy: A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen

1st Edition

By Pedro T. Magalhães
June 30, 2022

By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and ...

Legislative Deliberative Democracy Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during War

Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during War

1st Edition

By Avichai Levit
May 30, 2022

Freedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy. During war, however, national legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict this basic right. Under what circumstances can such laws be democratically legitimate? Avichai Levit argues that the degree of democratic legitimacy of laws that restrict ...

Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism

Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism

1st Edition

By David Miles
May 06, 2022

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and ...

On the Politics of Kinship

On the Politics of Kinship

1st Edition

By Hannes Charen
March 16, 2022

In this book, Hannes Charen presents an alternative examination of kinship structures in political theory. Employing a radically transdisciplinary approach, On the Politics of Kinship is structured in a series of six theoretical vignettes or frames. Each chapter frames a figure, aspect, or ...

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