Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

This book argues that conflicts in social science must be worked out at the level of the individual discipline rather than at the level of philosophy.

A sociologist in the post-war years, Erving Goffman wrote 11 books including "Asylums" and "Stigma". In this collection an international group of contemporary sociologists pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy.

Examining contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state, this volume explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product, suffering, is used to try to remake the social world.

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts.

By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek's theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism.

Offers a treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. This book intends to propose a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. It uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as the most plausible conception of democratic legitimacy.

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity--that of "the world".

This volume asks: what problems are posed to political philosophy by a collection of individuals who act or are treated in a collective way? Focusing not only on ways in which institutions should treat groups, but also on the normative implications of considering groups as possible social agents, when acting either in vertical relations with the state or in horizontal relations with other groups (or individuals), this book explores these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, combining questions about the nature of groups, and their social and political impacts, with the particular, pressing considerations to which such groups give rise.

Presents an illuminating interpretation of key 18th- and 19th-century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. This book is of interest to students and scholars of both political philosophy and thought as well as historians of this important period of history.

Social theory has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within sociology. According to social theory, social reality consists of objective institutions, structure, on the one hand, and individuals, agency on the other. It promotes human social relations, insisting that in every instance social reality consists of these relations.

The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines - to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research - through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes.

The idea of a `liberalism of flourishing¿ makes two major claims: the good life is one in which an individual succeeds in developing her intellectual and moral capabilities, and it is the function of the state to create the conditions that allow for this. Combining the history of ideas with analytical political philosophy, Menachem Mautner finds the roots of the theory in the works of great philosophers and argues that for individuals to reach a 'liberalism of flourishing' they need to engage with art.

This book is a comprehensive survey of methodological individualism in social, political and economic thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century.

The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines ¿ to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research ¿ through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes.

Demonstrates that the Frankfurt School tradition speaks directly to some pressing political and social concerns, including globalization, the reform of the welfare state, and the environmental crisis. This book is intended for scholars and advanced students in political science, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.

James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy, to explore whether Hegelian idealist philosophy can offer the categories that analytic practical philosophy requires to overcome the contradictions that have so far plagued Kantian constructivism.

Examines how people with key roles in democratic structures are vulnerable to influence from the burgeoning profits of gambling. This book argues that governments have a duty to protect their own democratic processes from degradations and that independence from the gambling industries needs to be built into public sector structures and processes.

Presents Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career. This book argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault's work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive philosophical and political viewpoint.

This volume uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.

Offering a history of Marxist and socialist thought, this book explores the development of the idea of scientific socialism through the nineteenth and twentieth century from its origins in Engels to its last manifestation in the work of Althusser.

Originally published as: Il paradosso di Icaro. Ovvero la necessitaa della disobbedienza. Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2018. Translated by Wendy Doherty.