Routledge international handbook of contemporary social and political theory / edited by Gerard Delanty and Stephen P. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Stephen P. Turner and Gerard Delanty -- PART 1 Living traditions -- The marxist legacy / Peter Beilharz -- Foucault and the promise of power without dogma / Gary Wickham -- Accidental conditions: The social consequences of poststructuralist philosophy / Thomas Docherty -- Lacanian theory: Ideology, enjoyment, and the spirits of capitalism / Yannis Stavrakakis -- Pierre Bourdieu and his legacy / Marcel Fournier -- Rediscovering political sovereignty: The rebirth of French political philosophy / Natalie J. Doyle -- Continuity through rupture with the Frankfurt school: Axel Honneth's theory of recognition / Mauro Basaure -- Lessons from twentieth-century political philosophy before Rawls / Jeremy Shearmur -- Liberalism after communitarianism / Charles Blattberg -- Republicanism: non-domination and the free state / Richard Bellamy -- Pragmatism and political theory / Robert B. Talisse -- Methodological and political pluralism: Democracy, pragmatism, and critical theory / James Bohman -- What is "Critical" about critical racial theory? / Patricia Hill Collins -- Feminist social and political theory / Clare Colebrook -- Latin American social and political thought: A historical and analytical perspective / Jose ́Maurićio Domingues and Aurea Mota -- Intellectuals and society: Sociological and historical perspectives / Patrick Baert and Joel Isaac -- PART 2 New and emerging frameworks -- Power, legitimacy, and authority / Stewart Clegg -- Modernity: From convergence and stability to plurality and transformation / Peter Wagner -- Social and political trust / Karen S. Cook and Brian D. Cook -- Environment and risk / Timothy W. Luke -- Networks: The technological and the social / Amelia Arsenault -- From linguistic performativity to social performance: The development of a concept / Moya Lloyd -- Nationalism and social theory: The distinction between community and society / Steven Grosby -- Empire and imperialism / Krishan Kumar -- Cosmopolitanism's theoretical and substantive dimensions / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Nature and society / Byron Kaldis -- The cognitive and metacognitive dimensions of social and political theory / Piet Strydom -- Cognitive neuroscience and the theory and practice of social and political inquiry / John G. Gunnell -- Feminist border thought / Elena Ruiz-Aho -- Contemporary Chinese social and political thought / Guanjun Wu -- PART 3 Emerging problems -- The limits of power and the complexity of powerlessness: The case of immigration / Saskia Sassen -- Sovereignty, security, and the exception: Towards situating postcolonial homo sacer / Sheila Nair -- The future of the state / Georg Sørensen -- Modern constitutionalism and the challenges of complex pluralism / Paul Blokker -- Reflexive integration: A perspective on the transformation of Europe / Erik O. Eriksen -- Transnational activisms and the global justice movement / Donatella della Porta and Raffaele Marchetti -- The transnational social question / Thomas Faist -- Hospitality, rights, and migrancy / Meyda Yegĕnogl̆u -- Social suffering and the new politics of sentimentality / Iain Wilkinson -- New forms of value production / Adam Arvidsson -- Memory practices and theory in a global age / Daniel Levy -- Post-secular society / Austin Harrington.

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 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. It is divided into three sections which address: The most influential theoretical traditions that have emerged from the legacy of the twentieth century. The most important new and emerging frameworks of analysis today. The major theoretical problems in recent social and political theory. The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory 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.