Books in the Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series

Examines how people with key roles in democratic structures are vulnerable to influence from the burgeoning profits of gambling. This book argues that governments have a duty to protect their own democratic processes from degradations and that independence from the gambling industries needs to be built into public sector structures and processes.

Presents Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career. This book argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault's work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive philosophical and political viewpoint.

This volume uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.

Offering a history of Marxist and socialist thought, this book explores the development of the idea of scientific socialism through the nineteenth and twentieth century from its origins in Engels to its last manifestation in the work of Althusser.

Originally published as: Il paradosso di Icaro. Ovvero la necessitaa della disobbedienza. Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2018. Translated by Wendy Doherty.

This fascinating and extensive study examines the enduring appeal of gambling, exploring its complex relation to our underlying conceptions of the world, and to the social and cultural backgrounds of those who fall under its spell.

This volume looks at conflicts in social science arguing that they must be worked out at the level of the individual discipline rather than at the level of philosophy.

This volume presents a detailed account of aspects of Hayek's intellectual development and of problems that arise within his work, offering some broad suggestions as to ways in which the programme initiated in his work might be developed further. The author draws on archival material.

This text argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan does not reject the social nature of the human being, but he also finds that every human being is a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does.

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and includes work by the most important international Durkheim scholars.

Examining the concept of the 'invisible hand' in Adam Smith's political philosophy and relating it to similar concepts in the works of Smith, Hume, Hayek and Popper, this text reveals a distinctive approach to social theory that stresses the unintended consequences of human action.

By re-examining the writings of Gadamer and Habermas and their views of earlier interpretive theorists, this book offers a radical challenge to their idea of the 'dialogue' between researchers and their subjects.

Original in conception and bold in its diagnosis, this work will be welcomed by students of, and researchers in, economics, social theory, Marx, Foucault and postmodernity.

A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points in Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work The Grandeur of Marx.

By arguing that his use of representations are at the core of Durkheim's sociological thought, this book makes a unique contribution to Durkheimian studies.

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 and moral capabilities, and it is the function of the state to create the conditions that allow for this. Combining the history of ideas with analytical political philosophy, Menachem Mautner finds the roots of the theory in the works of great philosophers and argues that for individuals to reach a 'liberalism of flourishing' they need to engage with art.

A sociologist in the post-war years, Erving Goffman wrote 11 books including "Asylums" and "Stigma". In this collection an international group of contemporary sociologists pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy.

Examining contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state, this volume explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product, suffering, is used to try to remake the social world.

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts.

By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek's theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism.

Offers a treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. This book intends to propose a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. It uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as the most plausible conception of democratic legitimacy.

This book is a significant contribution to a better understanding of the distinctive character of Tocqueville's liberalism. The author argues that Tocqueville seeks to reconcile the Christian and the citizen in the context of modernity.