Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Brings together a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists, and anthropologists to explore the role that the idea of 'authenticity' plays in the recognition and accommodation of cultural minorities and their practices. Discussing a wide range of illustrative cases and controversies drawn from Britain and continental Europe, North America, Australia, and the Middle East, this book moves beyond abstract discussion to consider also the practical and public policy implications of the putative authenticity of autonomous persons and of cultural practices.

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 empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.

Advances the concept of post-foundational cosmopolitanism as a way of thinking cosmopolitanism after the critique of foundations.

This is the first volume to bring together key philosophically interesting yet typically overlooked Panarchic texts. Each text is written at different historical periods and across different cultures and geographical regions.

This book examines the survival of neoliberal capitalism through an analysis of its seductive appeal as a fundamentally counter-cultural logic, infused by a spirit of rebellion and self-creation.

Explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault, which is not to be found in a desire for enlightenment but in the Promethean passion of Western man, the passion of man to shape himself and his world anew.

Andrea Catanzaro's new theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes' lesser known works against the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.

This book sheds new light on the unique critiques of modernity offered by the school of thinkers associated with Georg Lukács, informed as its members¿ insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet socialism and the liberal-democratic West.

This book explores the potential renewal of capital accumulation and the institutions that underlie it, offering a new understanding of the way in which 21st century capitalist accumulation combines the traditional logic of profit through labour exploitation with the logic of profit through speculation and dispossession.

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another ¿ critical theory and new materialism ¿ this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought.

Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet¿s interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism.

This book develops a contemporary theory of nationalism that addresses 21st century political challenges, exploring theoretical and empirical understandings of the concepts of `the nation¿ and `nationalism¿ and the failure of theoretical accounts to decipher the ways nationalism comes to be embedded in our social and political world.

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics.