Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries
1st Edition
By Richard Shorten
September 25, 2023
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process. Rather than taking self-contradictions in the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment, complexity is taken as a challenge. ...
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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 Biopolitics: An Inquiry into Nature and Language
1st Edition
By Marco Piasentier
February 02, 2022
How do humans fit into the natural world? What are the political consequences of viewing humans as animals? On Biopolitics is the first scholarly attempt to answer these questions, bringing critical thought into dialogue with naturalism. Effectively demonstrating that biology cannot serve as a ...
Dignity and Human Rights: Language Philosophy and Social Realizations
1st Edition
By Stephan P. Leher
December 13, 2021
Is it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes? Drawing ...
Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Practice for a Post-Secular Society
1st Edition
By Roberto Baldoli
June 30, 2021
Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early twentieth century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals and whole nations. Yet from a ...
The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond
1st Edition
By George Crowder
June 30, 2021
Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is the key component of pluralism, undermining familiar monist philosophies such as utilitarianism. But...