Critical Thinking Products

Edited by Luigi Corrias, Lyana Francot

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the…

Paperback – 2019-07-25
Routledge
Law and Politics

By Patrycja Sasnal

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south. It explores the relationship of Arendt’s thought, mostly as expressed…

Hardback – 2019-07-15
Routledge
Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms

By Dan Webb

Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines, most notably,…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
Routledge

By A. O. Mahendran

Surgery is a craft specialty: ‘doing’ in response to what is seen, felt and anticipated.　 The potent odours and the raw images of flesh, elicit strong sensations and responses in the here-and-now or ‘thisness’ (haecceities) of practice. These experiences, trigger a world of affects and senses that…

Hardback – 2019-07-10
Routledge
Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

By Robert Gass, John Seiter

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focus, the volume encourages readers to value civility when engaged in arguing and reasoning. Authors Gass and Seiter, renowned for their friendly writing…

Paperback – 2019-06-20
Routledge

By Jacques de Ville

This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of Schmitt’s texts, including Dictatorship (1921), The Concept of the Political (…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
Birkbeck Law Press
Birkbeck Law Press

Edited by Monica Lopez Lerma, Julen Etxabe

This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics.…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
Routledge
Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers

By Jim Josefson

Political Philosophy In the Moment uncovers the political power of narrative by both telling and explaining the stories that frame our ability to be "in the moment." In a series of eleven short stories, Jim Josefson presents the history of political philosophy and Hannah Arendt’s alternative, an…

Paperback – 2019-05-07
Routledge

By J.M. Beach

This book defines the concept and practices of literacy through a discussion of knowledge, information media, culture, subjectivity, science, communication, and politics. Examining the ways in which the spread of literacy and education have caused culture wars in pluralist societies since the 16th…

Paperback – 2019-04-16
Routledge

By Stavit Sinai

Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social imaginaries. As a discursive practice that was enmeshed in the meta-narratives of modernity, the discipline of sociology bears the inherent capacity to…

Hardback – 2019-03-28
Routledge
International Library of Sociology

Edited by Estelle Ferrarese

Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. In the United States, torturable, "mutilatable," and killable bodies are a wide topic of discussion, especially after September 11 and the ensuing bellicosity. In Europe, current reflection on…

Paperback – 2019-03-22
Routledge

Edited by Partha Ghose

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein. The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. Tagore (1861–1941) met…

Hardback – 2019-03-21
Routledge India