Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy...
Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern...
Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health,...
Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...
Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a...
Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Much of the world will be living in broadly "liberal" societies for the foreseeable future. Sustainability and security, however defined, must therefore be considered in the context of such societies, yet there is very little significant literature that does so. Indeed, much ecologically-oriented...
Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher’s importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism. Joseph V....
Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
