Critical Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers

   By Stuart Sim

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

   (De)constructing the Greenhouse

   Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan

   Series: Interventions

   Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Justice, Order and Anarchy

   The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   By Alex Prichard

   Series: New International Relations

   This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Speed

   Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

   By Simon Glezos

   Series: Interventions

   Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Althusser and Law

   Edited by Laurent de Sutter

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained&...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy

   Performative Construction of the War on Terror

   By Cami Rowe

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Imagination

   Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

   Series: Birkbeck Law Press

   The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Birkbeck Law Press
9. Politics of Urbanism

   Seeing Like a City

   By Warren Magnusson

   Series: Interventions

   To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Critical Approaches to Security

    An Introduction to Theories and Methods

    Edited by Laura J. Shepherd

    Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques. With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge