Norbert Elias and the Analysis of History and Sport

Joannes Van Gestel

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of the puzzle', the puzzle, as a topic in its ow... Lees meer

The Mythological State and its Empire

David Grant

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Probing the work of key political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, this book examines the state as a real, mythological entity. This groundbreaking work... Lees meer

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 10
• This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life . It represents the work of th... Lees meer

The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism

Daniel Fletcher

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believ... Lees meer

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

Ann Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Philosophical debates around reflexivity, identity and intimacy have preoccupied Western social and cultural theorists since the 1990s, and this book ... Lees meer

Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity

Robert Bickel

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposi... Lees meer

Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science

Peter Sohlberg

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• An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematis... Lees meer

Durkheim's Suicide

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• Written by world renowned Durkheim scholars, this book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's classic text on suicide, and revisits some of ... Lees meer

The New Materialism

Geoff Pfeifer

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• Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offer... Lees meer

Anatomies of Modern Discontent

Thomas S Henricks

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• This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences ... Lees meer

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

Majia Holmer Nadesan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 57
• Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and... Lees meer

Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society

Deborah (Windsor University, Canada) Cook

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Ado... Lees meer

John Rawls and the History of Political Thought

Jeffrey Bercuson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 90
• In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Fri... Lees meer

Durkheim and Representations

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• Durkheim's sociological thought is based on the premise that the world cannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, rough a... Lees meer

Gramsci, Materialism, and Philosophy

Esteve Morera

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Western critical theory, Marxism included, has largely been based on a view of historical materialism that Gramsci, among others, developed in his pri... Lees meer

Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis

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• The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large, unsustainable, sovereign debt. The... Lees meer

The Property-Owning Democracy

Gavin Kerr

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• The ideas of 'predistribution' and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal respo... Lees meer

Deleuze, Marx and Politics

Nicholas Thoburn

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 38
• A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's criti... Lees meer

Liberty, Toleration and Equality

John William Tate

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, ... Lees meer

The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization

Tariq Amin-Khan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 74
• State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studie... Lees meer

Connecting Practices

Elizabeth Shove

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and ... Lees meer

Crisis and Critique

Rodrigo Cordero

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of ... Lees meer

Max Weber's Sociology of Civilizations

Stephen Kalberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This volume examines civilizations through the broad lens articulated by the works of Max Weber. In focusing upon his comparative-historical mode of a... Lees meer

Nationalism, Inequality and England's Political Predicament

Charles Leddy-Owen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly original perspective on England's contemporary political pre... Lees meer