Deconstructing Happiness

Jordan McKenzie

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 109
• This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that socia... Lees meer

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

Ann Brooks

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and ... Lees meer

Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism

John Love

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber's work on the origins and institutional underp... Lees meer

Ethical Politics and Modern Society

James Jia-Hau Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Ethical Politics and Modern Society introduces and critically examines British idealist philosopher, Thomas Hill Green, his practical philosophy, and ... Lees meer

The Age of Chance

Gerda Reith

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those inter... Lees meer

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

Mark G E Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 59
• This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas ... Lees meer

Understanding the Tacit

Stephen P Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 81
• This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on to... Lees meer

Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

Xiaoying Qi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to ... Lees meer

Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts

Menachem Mautner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book claims that in addition to autonomy, liberal tradition recognizes human flourishing as an ideal of the good life. There are two versions of ... Lees meer

Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science

Peter Sohlberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematis... Lees meer

Experiencing Multiple Realities

Marius Ion Benţa

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of 'finite provinces of meaning', as developed in t... Lees meer

Panarchy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated ... Lees meer

Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large, unsustainable, sovereign debt. The... Lees meer

Lockean Property Ethics and Restitution

David Jarrett

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• In this book, David Jarrett argues that the influential Lockean thesis of justice in property, which traces back to John Locke, seems to entail much e... Lees meer

Freedom in Economics

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book presents a range of papers by philosophers and economists who consider the definition and value of liberty; freedom in rights and equality o... Lees meer

China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought

Simon Kow

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of... Lees meer

Hubris and Progress

Carlo Bordoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and be... Lees meer

Social Change in a Material World

Theodore R Schatzki

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier acco... Lees meer

The Contemporary Goffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 68
• The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman's unsurpass... Lees meer

Counter-Enlightenments

Graeme Garrard

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory an... Lees meer

Classical Individualism

Tibor R Machan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | nr. 11
• In Classical Individualism , Tibor R. Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identifies, develops and defends what he calls c... Lees meer

Utopia without Ideology

Ambrogio Santambrogio

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary... Lees meer

Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

Arpad Szakolczai

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and sci... Lees meer

Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.

David A J Richards

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies , David A. J. Richards offers an invest... Lees meer