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Theoria
A Journal of Social and Political Theory
Aims & Scope
Editor-in-Chief: Lawrence Hamilton
Published in association with the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Theoria is an engaged, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal of social and political theory. Its purpose is to address, through scholarly debate, the many challenges posed to intellectual life by the major social, political and economic forces that shape the contemporary world. Thus it is principally concerned with questions such as how modern systems of power, processes of globalization and capitalist economic organization bear on matters such as justice, democracy and truth. How might such systems best be explained? In what do justice and freedom consist? How might these ends best be realized under the conditions both of advanced modernity and of uneven modernization in the 'developing' world? In what, precisely, do the problems of social and political identity consist, and how might sense best be made of phenomena such as resurgent ethnic nationalisms? And what, in addressing these concerns, is the scope of philosophy, art, literature, history, social and political theory and economics? These, among many others, are the kinds of questions by which Theoria is driven.
Although the compass of the journal is wide and any one issue may carry contributions in a diversity of fields, the editors have decided that the contents of each issue will be largely dictated by one or more governing themes. To secure contributions in good time, these themes will be announced well ahead of publication. Besides articles the editors would like to encourage communications from readers which are intended to further debate on topics addressed in the journal. The editors would also like to encourage a review essay tradition and maintain a book review/book note section.
"Theoria is a journal which does not shy from the daunting task of dealing with issues which are not only increasingly complex but for which we no longer can make easy appeal to the certainty of foundations to answer. It deals with global issues in an authentically global way - it is interdisciplinary and intercultural in the very best sense of those terms and it understands that theory is one of the most important practices in which we can engage."—Professor James Buchanan, Xavier University
Indexed/Abstracted in: Expanded Academic ASAP, Infotrac Online, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, Literature Resource Center, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Subjects: Social and Political Theory, Literature, Philosophy, History
Current Issue
Number 134, March 2013
ARTICLES
Towards a Theory of Freedom
Mariam Thalos
What Determines the Boundary of Civil Society? Hume, Smith and Justification of European Exploitation of Non-Europeans
Elias L. Khalil
Political Life beyond the Biopolitical?
Leonie Ansems de Vries
Subjecting International Relations to the Law of Nature: A Neglected Aspect of Early Modern Jurists and Edmund Burke
Camilla Boisen
The University as a Bombed Town
Peter Vale
BOOK REVIEW
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse by Slavoj Žižek and Boris Gunjević
Review by Anthony Egan