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Routledge Innovations in Political Theory


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This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.

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Vico and the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights Between Grotius and Kant

Vico and the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: Between Grotius and Kant

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Renate Holub
August 31, 2024

Renate Holub provides a critical introduction to the philosophical foundations of human rights as developed by the Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico [1668-1744]. She demonstrate the profoundly innovative principles he contributed to and his contemporary relevance for a global theory of justice....

Ecological Relations Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth

Ecological Relations: Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Susan Board
May 31, 2024

International relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international ...

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement

1st Edition

By David Golemboski
January 29, 2024

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral, religious, and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an ...

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour: Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

1st Edition

By Simon Tunderman
December 01, 2023

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism, and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes? When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ...

Political Narratosophy From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination

Political Narratosophy: From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination

1st Edition

By Senka Anastasova
September 29, 2023

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the ‘self’ and narrativity. Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and ...

Confucian Sentimental Representation A New Approach to Confucian Democracy

Confucian Sentimental Representation: A New Approach to Confucian Democracy

1st Edition

By Kyung Rok Kwon
September 25, 2023

Kwon conceptualizes a unique mode of political representation in East Asian society, which derives its moral foundation from Confucian virtue politics. Contemporary East Asian societies understand democracy differently than Western societies do. Even citizens in consolidated democracies such as ...

On the Politics of Kinship

On the Politics of Kinship

1st Edition

By Hannes Charen
September 25, 2023

In this book, Hannes Charen presents an alternative examination of kinship structures in political theory. Employing a radically transdisciplinary approach, On the Politics of Kinship is structured in a series of six theoretical vignettes or frames. Each chapter frames a figure, aspect, or ...

The Ideology of Political Reactionaries

The Ideology of Political Reactionaries

1st Edition

By Richard Shorten
September 25, 2023

The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process. Rather than taking self-contradictions in the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment, complexity is taken as a challenge. ...

Justice, Care, and Value A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics

Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics

1st Edition

By Thomas Randall
July 21, 2023

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. Advancing the feminist literature, this book defends a vision of society that can best enable caring relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall ...

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

1st Edition

Edited By Bernat Torres, Josep Monserrat Molas
May 31, 2023

Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century. Across six chapters, experts guide the reader from classical to modern times presenting six ...

Liberal Progressivism Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change

Liberal Progressivism: Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change

1st Edition

By Gordon Hak
May 31, 2023

In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are ...

Love and Politics Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation

Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation

1st Edition

By Jeffery L. Nicholas
May 31, 2023

In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world in which human beings extend their ...

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