Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• 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

Understanding the Tacit

Stephen P Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 81
• This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science s... Lees meer

Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism

John Love

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber's work on the origins and institutional underp... Lees meer

Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

Xiaoying Qi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to ... Lees meer

Panarchy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This is the first volume to bring together key philosophically interesting yet typically overlooked Panarchic texts. Each text is written at different... Lees meer

The Age of Chance

Gerda Reith

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This fascinating and extensive study examines the enduring appeal of gambling, exploring its complex relation to our underlying conceptions of the wor... Lees meer

Deconstructing Happiness

Jordan McKenzie

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 109
• This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that socia... Lees meer

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

Ann Brooks

• Hardcover | 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

Experiencing Multiple Realities

Marius Ion Benţa

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of 'finite provinces of meaning', as developed in t... Lees meer

Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts

Menachem Mautner

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• 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 ... Lees meer

Ethical Politics and Modern Society

James Jia-Hau Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• James Jia-Hau Liu introduces and critically examines British moral philosopher, Thomas Hill Green, systematic practical philosophy and its reception i... Lees meer

Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science

Peter Sohlberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematis... Lees meer

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

Mark G E Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 59
• This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a con... Lees meer

Deciphering Goffman

Ramon Vargas Maseda

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Challenging the 'classical' conception of Goffman's sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous ... Lees meer

The Reading of Theoretical Texts

Peter Ekegren

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 19
• Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists,... Lees meer

Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.

David A J Richards

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• In this book David A.J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late 18th century constitutionalism, Edmund Burke and Ja... Lees meer

Habermas

Pauline Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This study reconstructs major developments in Habermas' thinking about the public sphere. It marshals the significance of his life's work to illuminat... Lees meer

Lockean Property Ethics and Restitution

David Jarrett

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• In this book, David Jarrett argues that the influential Lockean thesis of justice in property, which traces back to John Locke, seems to entail much e... Lees meer

Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics

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• Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet's interpretation of the chal... Lees meer

Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber... Lees meer

The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

Amos Morris-Reich

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book examines the connection between the nineteenth century transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences and notions of Jewish a... Lees meer

Counter-Enlightenments

Graeme Garrard

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book discusses the Counter-Enlightenment, from its origins in Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences through to contemporary debates about... Lees meer

Freedom in Economics

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book presents a range of papers by philosophers and economists who consider the definition and value of liberty; freedom in rights and equality o... Lees meer

Hubris and Progress

Carlo Bordoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and be... Lees meer