Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He has edited several volumes, including (with Krishan Kumar) the Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (Sage, 2006), and the Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (Routledge, 2006). His most recent book is The Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Stephen P. Turner is Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of a number of books on Max Weber, including the Cambridge Companion (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and other books including The Social Theory of Practices (Polity Press, 1994), Liberal Democracy 3.0 (Sage, 2003), and Explaining the Normative (Polity Press, 2010).

Introduction: Social, Political, and Cultural Theory since the Sixties: the Demise of Classical Marxism and Liberalism, the New Reality of the Welfare State, and the Loss of Epistemic Innocence by Stephen P. Turner and Gerard Delanty Part 1: Living Traditions 1. The Marxist Legacy by Peter Beilharz 2. Foucault and the Promise of Power without Dogma by Gary Wickham 3. Accidental Conditions: the Social Consequences of Poststructuralist Philosophy by Thomas Docherty 4. Lacanian Theory: Ideology, Enjoyment and the Spirit of Capitalism by Yannis Stavrakakis 5. Bourdieu and his Legacy by Marcel Founrier 6. Re-discovering Political Sovereignty: the Rebirth of French Political Philosophy by Nathalie Doyle 7. Continuity through Rupture with the Frankfurt School: Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition by Mauro Basaure 8. Lessons from Twentieth Century Political Philosophy before Rawls by Jeremy Shearmur 9. Liberalism after Communitarianism by Charles Blattberg 10. Republicanism; Non-Domination and the Free State by Richard Bellamy 11. Pragmatism and Political Theory by Robert Talisse 12. Methodological and Political Pluralism: Democracy, Pragmatism and Critical Theory by James Bohman 13. What is 'Critical' about Critical Theory? by Patricia Hill Collins 14. Feminist Social and Political Theory by Clare Mary Colebrook 15. Latin American and Social Political Thought: A Historical and Analystical Perspective by Mauricio Domingues and Aurea Mota 16. Intellectuals and Society: Sociological and Historical Perspectives by Patrick Baert and Joel Issac Part 2: New and Emerging Frameworks 17. Power, Legitimacy and Authority by Stuart Clegg 18. Modernity: from Convergence and Stability to Plurality and Transformation by Peter Wagner 19. Social and Political Trust by Karen S. Cook and Brian D. Cook 20. Environment and Risk by Tim Luke 21. Networks: Emerging Frameworks for Analysis by Amelia Arsenault 22. From Linquistic Performativity to Social Performance: the Development of a Concept by Moya Lloyd 23. Nationalism and Social Theory: the Distinction between Community and Society by Steve Grosby 24. Empire and Imperialism by Krishan Kumar 25. Cosmopolitanism's Theoretical and Substantive Dimensions by Fuyuki Kurasawa 26. Nature and Society by Byron Kaldis 27. The Cognitive and Metacognitive Dimension of Social and Political Theory by Piet Strydom 28. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Theory and Practice of Social and Politial Theory by John Gunnell 29. Feminist Border Theory by Elena Ruiz-Aho 30. Contemporary Chinese Political Thought by Guanjun Wu Part 3: Emerging Problems 31. The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness by Saskia Sassen 32. Sovereignty, Security and the Exception: Towards Situating Postcolonial 'homo sacer' by Sheila Nair 33. Future of the State by Georg Sørensen 34. Modern Constitutionalism and the Challenges of Complex Pluralism by Paul Blokker 35. Reflexive Integration: a Perspective on the Transformation of Europe by Erik O. Eriksen 36. Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement by Donatella della Porta and Raf Marchetti 37. The Transnational Social Question by Thomas Faist 38. Hospitality, Rights and Migrancy by Meyda Yegenoglu 39. Social Suffering and the New Politics of Sentimentality by Iain Wilkinson 40. New Forms of Value Production by Adam Arvidsson 41. Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age by Daniel Levy 42. Post-secular Society by Austin Harrington