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1. Democracy and National Pluralism

   Edited by Ferran Requejo

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Dialectics and Contemporary Politics

   Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism

   By John Grant

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Class, States and International Relations

   A critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory

   By Adrian Budd

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book provides an outline and a critique of neo-Gramscian international relations theory, from a Marxist perspective. Focusing on the pioneering work of Robert Cox, but also drawing on the wider neo-Gramscian literature, this book presents a comprehensive account of neo-Gramscian international...

   Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

   By William Smith

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Pliny’s Defense of Empire

   By Thomas R. Laehn

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Gramsci and Global Politics

   Hegemony and resistance

   Edited by Mark McNally, John Schwarzmantel

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best-known concepts – hegemony, civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Popular Sovereignty in the West

   Polities, Contention, and Ideas

   By Geneviève Nootens

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book is an inquiry into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty as it has been shaped by the struggles between rulers and ruled. It builds on the notion that a thorough analysis of how the idea of popular sovereignty emerges from, and interacts with, a political history of contention...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Rethinking Gramsci

   Edited by Marcus Green

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Antonio Gramsci's significant contribution to the fields of political and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad range of important political and cultural theorists from around the world and explains the...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom

   ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later

   Edited by Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin’s writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have examined his general political theory, but...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy

    Cities and Transcendence

    By Jonathan N. Badger

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge