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.
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 comprised 42 chapters. The new edition consists of 50 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.
Introduction PART 1: 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 2: 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, Posthumanism
33. Contemporary Chinese Social and
Political Thought PART 3: NEW PROBLEMS
34. Sovereignty, Security and the
Exception: Bare Life in a Pandemic Time
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. Postcapitalism: The Return of Radical Critique
45. Populism: The Concept and the Polemic
46. New Materialism(s)
47.
Political Theology
48. Theories of Violence
49. Universalism, Human Rights
and Islamic Relativism
50. Animals in Social and Political Theory
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.
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