Philosophy & Social Criticism

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophy & Social Criticism is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression22
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments21
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx19
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts18
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community15
Marcuse’s critique of technology today15
Solidarity as a political resource: Keeping it real, feasible, and effective9
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla9
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view7
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions7
Rescuing justice and stability7
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom7
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault6
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory6
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen6
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism6
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history5
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?5
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come5
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought5
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment5
Alexander von Humboldt on race: Beyond the Kantian frame5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?5
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction5
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism4
Annotations4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy4
Paternalism, respect and dialogue4
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu4
Liberalism and the problem of domination4
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy4
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt4
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective4
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere3
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity3
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights3
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure3
Freedom of expression as self-restraint3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser3
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture3
Mutual recognition across generations3
Succeeding the Mandate of Heaven: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Early Joseon Korea3
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar3
Caritas and hopelessness in Hannah Arendt’s and Simone Weil’s interpretations of Saint Augustine3
The aporetic humanism of early Derrida3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno3
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge3
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen3
Against ‘institutional racism’3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power3
Populism and Empowerment3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed3
Loneliness and radicalization3
The just price and the gains from exchange3
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique2
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power2
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form2
Arendt on earth2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush2
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?2
The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Psychopower, Attention, and the Crisis of the Public Sphere2
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)2
Against received opinion : Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India2
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism2
The Political Lives of Pain2
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society2
Social ontology in metaethics2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres2
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality2
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism2
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass2
Shame and the question of self-respect2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action2
Self-esteem and competition2
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today2
Exploitation and Unjust Structures: Towards an Account of Systemic Exploitation2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao2
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience2
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy2
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar2
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)1
Threats to academic freedom: The French case1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’1
Pluralism, federalism, and two levels of the original position1
Adorno and negative dialectics: The case of feminist religious agency1
Mimicking myths of menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on ageing and femininity in fiction TV shows1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech1
If nihilism is murder, what then? Camus’ distinctive conception of nihilism & its overcoming1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind1
From the age of immanence to the autonomy of the political: (Post)operaismo in theory and practice1
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty1
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?1
Public sphere and global governance1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence1
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt1
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality1
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19251
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Is it possible to form a rational identity? A critical reading of Habermas’ account of social identity1
Constitution as recommendation1
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory1
Values, worldviews and historicity. Revisiting Weber’s theory of values1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help1
Moral Wrongs, Epistemic Wrongs: Epistemic Injustice as a Global Failure of Recognition1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’1
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity1
Democracy’s ruling hand1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
Why (and how) statues matter1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism1
The ‘mystical’ foundation of democratic society, mythmaking and truth in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford 1962)1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument1
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
The crisis of judgement: Arendt and the tradition of the social contract1
Roles and rights in the context of just governance and just social mores1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault1
The people versus the grandees: The paradox of Claude Lefort’s ‘populism’1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
The carceral appropriation of communications technology through the imaginal1
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness1
Getting the duty to resist right: Remarks on Candice Delmas’s book a duty to resist: When disobedience should be uncivil1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy1
Antagonism forever. On conservative left-wing philosophy in Mouffe, Žižek, and Kristeva1
Critical citizenship and democratic legitimacy0
Dreams of peace and realities of war. The friend-enemy polarization0
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism0
A tripartite model of federalism0
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower0
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership0
Radical labour republicanism: A defence0
‘A link in an intergenerational chain’: Sovereignty and justice in Ferrara’s sovereignty across generations0
Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?0
Three forms of philosophical theatre in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination0
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change0
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory0
Corporate civil disobedience: Be careful what you wish for0
Is Inequality Ever Justified? Insights From Zhuangzi’s ‘Robber Zhi’0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis0
Beyond technocracy and political theology: John Dewey and the authority of truth0
Annotations0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy0
‘Inwardly circumcised Jews’. Money, commodities, and the Jewish question in Marx’s capital0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited0
Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny0
Setting struggle in motion: From ‘non-violence’ to revolutionary anti-violence0
Book Review: The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour0
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung” revisited: Distinguishing two paradigms of working through the past0
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective0
Lost in translation: The normative and the historical0
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric0
Caught between morality and art: Susan Sontag on metaphors of illness0
The subject, the worker, and the slave reification, capitalism, and the divestment of reason from freedom0
Battle, competition, and game: Three models for justifying democratic self-protection0
Marcusean resources to think coloniality0
Response0
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter0
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory0
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig0
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility0
Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Constituent power in political liberalism: Constraining the future?0
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy0
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy0
Book Review: Science as a Quest for Truth: The Interpretation Lab Kristensson UgglaBengt, Science as a Quest for Truth: The Interpretation Lab. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024; 354 pp.,0
The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?0
Feminist takes on post-truth0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective0
Is Antisemitism a Blind Spot of Critical Social Theory?0
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger0
Beyond Separation of Powers: The Dual Models of Limited and Streamlined Government0
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era0
Book Review: Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology and Dialectics0
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy0
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations0
The public sphere and democracy in transformation: Continuing the debate – An introduction0
The confusion about conversion: Competing narratives and nationalist violence in India0
Social norms and social practices0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited0
The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality0
Towards a Kantian Anarchism: Martin Welsch and the Radicalization of Kant’s Political Philosophy Review Essay (WelschMartin, Anfangsgründe der Volkssouveränität: Immanuel Kants 'Staatsrecht' in der “M0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics0
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