Political Theory

John Rawls' pioneering work of political philosophy A Theory of Justice has had far reaching influence on modern liberal political philosophy. In this book, Päivänsalo presents a deep analysis of Rawlsian canon and introduces a fresh theoretical framework to clarify and modify different elements o..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First published in 1977 this volume challenges the accepted interpretations of Bentham's political thought and in particular the landmark criticism by John Stuart Mill and Elie Halévy...

A radical critique of New Right ideology and politics from a leading light of resurgent traditional conservatism...

Placing the phenomenon of nationalism squarely within the continuing Enlightenment project, Cherry Bradshaw brings together political theory, history, anthropology and international relations in order to investigate both the appeal and the dangers of nationalism in contemporary world politics...

In one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skill of interpretation to demonstrate that Americans are interacting less and creating less “social capital” – with potentially disastrous implications f..

The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value beyond mere utility or access to resources. In this book, John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality..

The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value beyond mere utility or access to resources. In this book, John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality..

A critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital. Ccontroversial and passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic information to produce a new interpretation of history...

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in Capital and Interest see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sophisticated line of thought seen in his later Pure Th..

First published in 1997, this volume presented a powerful new theory of the predominance in the USSR of self-expanding value (capital) and an explanation of Soviet political-economic development informed by a rigorous insistence on the central antagonism between capital and the autonomous proletaria..

There has been and continues to be a remarkable revival in academic interest in Carl Schmitt's thought within politics, but this is the first book to address his thought from an explicitly legal theoretical perspective, as it addresses the actual and potential significance of Schmitt's thought for d..