By David Grant

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as...

Published July 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern

By Sara Eigen Figal

This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core...

Published July 16th 2008 by Routledge.

A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

By Ari Kohen

The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to...

Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Politics

Edited by Jurgen De Wispelaere, Cillian McBride, Shane O’Neill

This volume brings together a range of theoretical responses to issues in Irish politics. Its organising ideas: recognition, equality, and democracy set the terms of...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

After the Open Society

Selected Social and Political Writings

By Karl Popper

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity

A Phenomenology of Human Rights

By Serena Parekh

Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this...

Published February 25th 2008 by Routledge.

On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy

By Nathan Ross

On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It...

Published February 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

Foucault and Lifelong Learning

Governing the Subject

Edited by Andreas Fejes, Katherine Nicoll

Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in particular with relation...

Published January 17th 2008 by Routledge.

The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition

By Emanuele Saccarelli

This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted...

Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

William E. Connolly

Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory

Edited by Samuel A. Chambers, Terrell Carver

William E. Connolly’s writings have pushed the leading edge of political theory, first in North America and then in Europe as well, for more than...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.