Political Philosophy Products

By Alan Montefiore

Edited by Danielle Sands

This book collects essays by Alan Montefiore on the role philosophy plays in the formation of the self, and how philosophical questions regarding the nature of reason, truth, and identity inform ethics and politics. It offers a comprehensive overview of Montefiore’s influential, non-dogmatic…

Hardback – 2019-12-11
Routledge

By Christopher Cowie

The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive. It implies that we can improve the world by…

Hardback – 2019-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Philosophy

By Chris W Surprenant, Jason Brennan

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Understanding why means focusing on color—not only on black or white (which already has been…

Paperback – 2019-12-09
Routledge

By Various

Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy (54 Volume set) presents titles, originally published between 1924 and 2003. Political theory has a long history and broad scope, this set draws together research from leading academics covering key themes such as: liberty and…

Hardback – 2019-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy

Edited by Daniel Matthews, Scott Veitch

Against an ever-expanding and diversifying ‘rights talk’, this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. Its premise is that obligation has a primacy ahead of rights, because rights attach to practices and modes of being…

Paperback – 2019-12-06
Routledge
Critical Studies in Jurisprudence

By Sandro Chignola

Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro…

Paperback – 2019-12-06
Routledge
Law and Politics

By Pauline Johnson

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism. Over the last decades, neoliberalism has worked to lift social protections and political…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge

By Genyou Wu

In China, political philosophy is still a comparatively new academic discipline. While there is no such phrase as “political philosophy” in ancient Chinese texts, there are elements within them that could be considered part of that field. Central questions of Chinese ancient political philosophy…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Edited by Hugo El Kholi, Jun-Hyeok Kwak

As a fascinating study of global justice in Asia, this book presents a series of contributions reflecting upon the conditions of a greater involvement of East Asian traditions of thought in the debate on global justice. Including chapters on diverse issues such as global social inequalities, human…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge
Political Theories in East Asian Context

By B.V. Sreekantan, Sisir Roy

This book examines issues related to the concepts of space, time and causality in the context of modern physics and ancient Indian traditions. It looks at the similarity and convergence of these concepts of modern physics with those discussed in ancient Indian wisdom. The volume brings the…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge India

By Michael Quinn

First published in 1991. This study is a critical survey of substantive egalitarian theories of justice, that is to say, various theories containing principles for the distribution of social resources which, it is argued, base themselves on a fundamental principle of equality. This title will be of…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy

By Anne Showstack Sassoon

First published in 1980. This book analyses Gramsci’s political theory and the consequences of his ideas for the theory of the state and of the political party. Using the new tools of analysis which have been developed in Italy the book presents Gramsci’s political theory as part of the attempt to…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy