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The modern visions of the future were based on the ideas of progress, utopia and revolutionary renewal. In western societies since the middle of the twentieth century, these visions gradually went into decline with the rise of a dominant vision based on prediction, forecasting and technocratic control. Although by no means hegemonic, it was an expression of belief in a western model of modernisation and the legacy of liberal notions of progres...

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.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty.

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.

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well a...

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well a...

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. 18 entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholars

This comprehensive volume provides an overview of the main debates on the sociology and philosophy of the social sciences from the contemporary perspective of radical reflexivity and democratization.

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This book shows how a critical theory perspective can offer new insights into our time. It also provides a succinct case for the revival of what was the original aim of the critical theory tradition, namely the link between philosophy and social research.

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This book presents a historical and political sociology of European history and society. It offers a critical interpretation of the course of European history looking at the emergence of the idea of Europe and the formation of modernity. Now fully updated, Delanty's second edition features commentary on Brexit, populism, the refugee crisis, and secessionism, as well as additional coverage of colonialism and the wider global context. The book ...

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. 18 entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholarship in recent years, such as sexualities, public space, the Kantian legacy, the commons, internet, generati...

Revised edition of the author's Community, 2010.

Revised edition of the author's Community, 2010.

This is a major new book on the question of Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be questioned.

The increasing individualism of modern western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in western utopian thought, and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies. In today's society, we are no longer bounded by place, and instead belong to multiple communitie...

This book offers a critical interpretation of the European heritage for the present day. It shows that a transnational perspective on memory and European historical formation draws attention to processes of entanglement and that a focus on such forms of entanglement might be a basis for critical and comparative research on heritage. The book poses the question: is it possible for European societies - and Europe more generally - to create a tra...