Books in the Routledge Innovators in Political Theory series

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 two decades. Drawn on his many books and articles, this book focuses on three key areas of his thinking: Democracy, Pluralism, and Terms of Political Theory.

Exploring Young's work through the themes of gender, justice, and the politics of difference, this volume spans the several decades of her work, illustrating her intellectual development over time.

Michael Paul Rogin¿s scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. This book focuses on three categories of substantive innovation within his work: demonology and countersubversion; the psychic life of liberal society; and political mediation: institutions and culture.

This volume tracks the evolution of Mansbridge¿s key contributions to democratic theory in participatory, institutional and feminist contexts through articles that span her entire career to date.

This work helps highlights how the innovations in Flathman's thought have shaped the field of political theory and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Hanna Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists are called to address, and has addressed them herself in a range of theoretical genres. She is an innovator in bringing conceptual work inspired by ordinary language philosophy to the field of political philosophy, as well as a penetrating and exacting interpreter of texts who draws on the insights of psychoanalysis, gender, and historical study. This collection of her works approaches each of these dimensions of Pitkin's contributions in turn, recognizing that she typically blends these modes of engagement in much of her political theorizing.

Hanna Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists are called to address, and has addressed them herself in a range of theoretical genres. She is an innovator in bringing conceptual work inspired by ordinary language philosophy to the field of political philosophy, as well as a penetrating and exacting interpreter of texts who draws on the insights of psychoanalysis, gender, and historical study. This collection of her works approaches each of these dimensions of Pitkin¿s contributions in turn, recognizing that she typically blends these modes of engagement in much of her political theorizing.

This collection draws together the key works of Kateb, focusing on his writingon Dignity, Morality and Individuality and is framed by a introduction from John Seery, a new essay from Kateb and an interview in which Kateb reflects on the work in the volume.

Drawing together some of the key works of this prolific theorist, the chapters are chosen to highlight some of the most important themes explored by Gunnell: the relationship between Political Theory and Political Science; the alienation of Political Theory from Politics and Concepts and Conceptual Change.

Chantal Mouffe¿s writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. This work brings together her key writings, concluding with a new interview with Chantal Mouffe.

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 two decades. Drawn on his many books and articles, this book focuses on three key areas of his thinking: Democracy, Pluralism, and Terms of Political Theory.

Chantal Mouffe's writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological and substantive propositions she offers. Determinisms, scientific or otherwise, and ideologies, Marxist or feminist, have failed to survive her excoriating critiques. In a sense she is the original post-Marxist, rejecting economisms and class-centric analyses, and also the original post-feminist, more concerned with the varieties of 'identity politics' than with any singularities of 'women's issues'. While Mouffe's concerns with power and discourse derive from her studies of Gramsci's theorisations of hegemony and the post-structuralisms of Derrida and Foucault, her reversal of the very terms through which political theory proceeds is very much her own. She centres conflict, not consensus, and disagreement, not finality. Whether philosophically perfectionist, or liberally reasonable, political theorists have been challenged by Mouffe to think again, and to engage with a new concept of 'the political' and a revived and refreshed notion of 'radical democracy'. The editor has focused on her work in three key areas: Hegemony: From Gramsci to 'Post-Marxism' Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship and Identity The Political: A Politics Beyond Consensus The volume concludes with a new interview with Chantal Mouffe.

Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science.

Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science.