• ISBN13: 9780415714464
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyPolitics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: April 16, 2013
• Pages: 528
• Original Price: 52.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1116 grams

About the Book The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political authority. This <em>Handbook</em> 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. It is divided into three sections which address: <ul> <li>the most influential theoretical traditions that have emerged from the legacy of the twentieth century </li> <li>the most important new and emerging frameworks of analysis today </li> <li>the major theoretical problems in recent social and political theory. </li> </ul> The <em>Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory</em> encompasses the most up-to-date developments in contemporary social and political theory, and as such is an essential research tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers, working in the fields of political theory, social and political philosophy, contemporary social theory, and cultural theory.