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Forthcoming Political Philosophy Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Foundations of Freedom

    Welfare-Based Arguments Against Paternalism

    By Simon R. Clarke

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    What makes individual freedom valuable? People have always believed in freedom, have sought it, and have sometimes fought and died for it. The belief that it is something to be valued is widespread. But does this belief have a rational foundation? This book examines answers to these questions that...

    To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Contemporary Democratic Theory and Religion

    An Introduction

    By Camil Ungureanu

    Should democratic politics and religion, political reason and faith be completely separated from each other, or should they be seen in a relationship of discursive interaction? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has undermined state-induced attempts to privatise faith, and...

    To Be Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Competing Sovereignties

    By Richard Joyce

    Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law...

    To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

    And Other Essays

    By Bernard Bosanquet

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by Bernard Bosanquet during his highly industrious philosophical life. The collection was put together by Bosanquet’s wife after the death of the writer and remains mostly unaltered with...

    To Be Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Honor: A Phenomenology

    By Robert L. Oprisko

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Honor is misunderstood in the social sciences. The literature lacks both accuracy and precision in its conceptual development such that we no longer say what we mean because we have no idea what we’re saying. We use many terms to mean honor and mean many different ideas when we refer to honor....

    To Be Published July 21st 2012 by Routledge

  6. Ontology Revisited

    Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy

    By Ruth Groff

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of...

    To Be Published August 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  7. Marxism and Modern Thought (Routledge Revivals)

    By N. I. Bukharin, A. M. Deborin, Y. M. Yuranovsky, S. I. Vavilov, V. L. Komarov, A. I. Tiumeniev

    First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era. Written by a selection of leading Marxist thinkers, including Nikolai Bukharin who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, this work offers a...

    To Be Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

    (De-)Constructing the Greenhouse

    Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan

    Series: Interventions

    Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...

    To Be Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

  9. Law, Legislation and Liberty

    A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy

    By F. A. Hayek

    Series: Routledge Classics

    With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' – Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking about society and its values. The entire...

    To Be Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt

    By Mariano Croce, Andrea Salvatore

    The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt’s institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt’s overall work through the lens of his institutional turn, the authors...

    To Be Published September 6th 2012 by Routledge