Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory / edited by Gerard Delanty and Stephen P. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delanty, Gerard, editor.

Turner, Stephen P., 1951- editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His most recent publication is Critical Theory and Social Transformation (2020) and, as editor, Pandemics, Society and Politics (2021). Stephen P. Turner is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, USA. His books include Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (2003) and essays collected in The Politics of Expertise (2013). He has also written extensively on Max Weber, especially on politics, on Carl Schmitt, and on the politics of science and science policy.

Summary:

The triangular relationship between the social, the political, and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political authority. This Handbook will address a range of issues that have recently emerged from the disciplines of social and political theory, focusing on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or major theorists. It is divided into three sections which address: the most influential theoretical traditions that have emerged from the legacy of the twentieth century; the most important new and emerging frameworks of analysis today; the major theoretical problems in recent social and political theory. The Second edition is an enlarged, revised, and updated version of the first edition, which was published in 2011 and comprised42 chapters. The new edition consists of50 chapters, of which seventeen are entirely new chapters covering topics that have become increasingly prominent in social and political theory in recent years, such as populism, the new materialism, postcolonialism, Deleuzean theory, post-humanism, post-capitalism as well as older topics that were not covered in the first edition, such as Arendt, the gift, critical realism, anarchism. All chapters retained from the first edition have been thoroughly revised and updated. The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory encompasses the most up-to-date developments in contemporary social and political theory, and as such is an essential research tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers working in the fields of political theory, social and political philosophy, contemporary social theory, and cultural theory.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: social, political, and cultural theory since the sixties: The demise of classical Marxism and liberalism, the new reality of the welfare state, resistance, and the loss of epistemic innocence

PART I: Living traditions

1. Foucault and the promise of power without dogma

2. Pierre Bourdieu and his legacy

3. Lacanian theory: Ideology, enjoyment and the spirits of capitalism

4. The Marxist legacy

5. Critical race theory

6. Feminist social and political theory

7. Accidental conditions: The social consequences of poststructuralist philosophy

8. Critical theory today: Legacies and new directions

9. Pragmatism and political theory

10. Lessons from twentieth-century political philosophy before Rawls

11. Liberalism after communitarianism

12. Republicanism: Non-domination and the free state

13. Marcel Gauchet and the crisis of European democracy

14. A journey through Latin American social and political thought

15. Intellectuals and society: Sociological and historical perspectives

16. Power and violence in the political thought of Hannah Arendt

PART II: New and emerging frameworks

17. Anarchist social and political theory

18. Deleuze, Guattari, and the concept of social assemblage

19. Critical realism

20. Power, legitimacy, and authority

21. Environment and risk

22. Modernity in social and political theory: Correcting misunderstandings

23. Social and political trust

24. From linguistic performativity to social performance

25. Nationalism and social theory: The distinction between community and society

26. Empire and imperialism

27. Cosmopolitanism: Roots and diversities

28. From friction to fruition: Social theory meets postcolonial studies

29. Nature and society

30. The cognitive and metacognitive dimensions of social and political theory

31. Cognitive neuroscience and the theory and practice of social and political inquiry

32. Humanism, anti-humanism and posthumanis

33. Contemporary Chinese social and political thought

PART III: New problems

34. Sovereignty, security and the exception

35. The future of the state

36. Modern constitutionalism under challenge

37. Social theory and European integration

38. The limits of power and the complexity of powerlessness: The case of immigration

39. Transnational activisms and the global justice movement

40. The transnational social question

41. Social suffering and the new politics of sentimentality

42. Memory practices and theory in a global age

43. The gift paradigm

44. Post-capitalism: The return of radical critique

45. Populism: The concept and the polemic

46. New materialism(s)

47. Political theology

48. Theories of violence

Notes:

49. Universalism, human rights, and Islamic relativism.

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Print version: Delanty, Gerard Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory

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9781000427165

1000427161

9781003111399

1003111394

9781000427196

1000427196

OCLC:

1263868765

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