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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments28
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression28
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts23
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community15
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom11
Solidarity as a political resource: Keeping it real, feasible, and effective11
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view9
Rescuing justice and stability9
Marcuse’s critique of technology today8
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism6
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla6
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory6
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault6
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen5
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction5
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?5
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?5
Alexander von Humboldt on race: Beyond the Kantian frame5
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history5
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
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come4
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge4
Annotations4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism4
Populism and Empowerment4
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu4
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar4
Liberalism and the problem of domination4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy4
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure4
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed4
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno4
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser3
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity3
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)3
The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Psychopower, Attention, and the Crisis of the Public Sphere3
Succeeding the Mandate of Heaven: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Early Joseon Korea3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics3
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture3
The just price and the gains from exchange3
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’3
Mutual recognition across generations3
Loneliness and radicalization3
Caritas and hopelessness in Hannah Arendt’s and Simone Weil’s interpretations of Saint Augustine3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power3
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics3
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality3
Drucilla Cornell’s Revolutionary Thinking3
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today2
Adorno and negative dialectics: The case of feminist religious agency2
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness2
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets2
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell2
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism2
Against received opinion : Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy2
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics2
The Political Lives of Pain2
Exploitation and Unjust Structures: Towards an Account of Systemic Exploitation2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy2
Against ‘institutional racism’2
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
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation2
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China2
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism2
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass2
Self-esteem and competition2
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?2
Arendt on earth2
Social ontology in metaethics2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush2
What Incentive Structures Do to Political Philosophy: Epistemic Pathologies and Institutional Design2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms2
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions2
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy2
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty2
Shame and the question of self-respect2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar2
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao2
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique2
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19251
If nihilism is murder, what then? Camus’ distinctive conception of nihilism & its overcoming1
Is it possible to form a rational identity? A critical reading of Habermas’ account of social identity1
Potentiality and its Discontents: Against Agamben’s Political Ontology1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey1
Defending rights. Between parliaments and courts1
The Role of the Imagination in Legitimizing Power1
The carceral appropriation of communications technology through the imaginal1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
Constitution as recommendation1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico1
Values, worldviews and historicity. Revisiting Weber’s theory of values1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism1
The people versus the grandees: The paradox of Claude Lefort’s ‘populism’1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’1
Why (and how) statues matter1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange1
Zhuangzi and ideological state apparatuses1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy1
Breaking the Self: Ideology and the Limit Situation in Zhuangzi and Continental Philosophy1
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
The Eccentric Commodity: Why Only Labor-Power Produces Value1
The symbolic work of political discourse. Populist reason and its foundational myth1
Mimicking myths of menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on ageing and femininity in fiction TV shows1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis1
Moral Wrongs, Epistemic Wrongs: Epistemic Injustice as a Global Failure of Recognition1
Critical Theory, Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Status of Reason: Horkheimer and Habermas on Husserl’s Idea of Rigorous Philosophical Science1
The crisis of judgement: Arendt and the tradition of the social contract1
Antagonism forever. On conservative left-wing philosophy in Mouffe, Žižek, and Kristeva1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen1
The Absent Sovereign and the Invisible Foundation: Political Liberalism’s Aporias in Theorizing Constituent Power1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help1
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics1
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument1
The ‘mystical’ foundation of democratic society, mythmaking and truth in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford 1962)1
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt1
Racism, epistemic injustice, and ideology critique1
Democracy and the Humanities1
Political friendship, respect, community: Hannah Arendt’s de-materialization of Aristotelian political friendship1
Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism1
Getting the duty to resist right: Remarks on Candice Delmas’s book a duty to resist: When disobedience should be uncivil1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership1
Roles and rights in the context of just governance and just social mores1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality1
Democracy’s ruling hand1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault1
Irredeemable Evildoers as Post-Persons1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument1
Public sphere and global governance1
Pluralism, federalism, and two levels of the original position1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)1
From the age of immanence to the autonomy of the political: (Post)operaismo in theory and practice1
Arendt, free will, and action0
Has the owl flown with regard to ‘the constitutional theory of political liberalism’?0
Caught between morality and art: Susan Sontag on metaphors of illness0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen0
Beyond Han’s critique: The location of the Other0
The hegemonic world picture: Representation, post-truth, and artificial intelligence0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change0
The fluidity of political legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
The made and the made-up0
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood0
The public sphere and democracy in transformation: Continuing the debate – An introduction0
Radical labour republicanism: A defence0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment0
Balancing the digital universe: Power and patterns in the new public sphere0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience0
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy0
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination0
Setting struggle in motion: From ‘non-violence’ to revolutionary anti-violence0
Reason, Imagination, and Sentiment: Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Textualism as Black Natural Law and Political Activism0
Constituent Power, Constituent Rights: Thinking Rights with Spinoza and Negri0
Marcusean resources to think coloniality0
Constituent power in political liberalism: Constraining the future?0
Eyes and Darkness: Race and Idealism Through Cinga Samson’s Okwe Nkunzana 60
Dreams of peace and realities of war. The friend-enemy polarization0
A Critique of Yascha Mounk’s Understanding of Populism and Democracy0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour0
Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory0
Bringing gender and religion in: Right-wing networks and “Populism and Civil Society”0
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism0
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Does Social Epistemic Instrumentalism Secure the Normative Authority of Epistemic Rationality?0
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique0
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political0
‘A link in an intergenerational chain’: Sovereignty and justice in Ferrara’s sovereignty across generations0
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology0
The confusion about conversion: Competing narratives and nationalist violence in India0
Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism0
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis0
Social norms and social practices0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory0
Feminist takes on post-truth0
Corporate civil disobedience: Be careful what you wish for0
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy0
Battle, competition, and game: Three models for justifying democratic self-protection0
The subject, the worker, and the slave reification, capitalism, and the divestment of reason from freedom0
Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny0
‘Inwardly circumcised Jews’. Money, commodities, and the Jewish question in Marx’s capital0
‘The fewer the enemies, the more the enemies’: The enigma of absolute hostility0
Taking Motivations Seriously: The Problem of Internal Reasons and Judicial Review0
The market antinomy0
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline0
Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière on the Limits of Representation0
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy0
Illiberal polity as the retribution of post-imperial nation-building: The case of Turkey0
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception0
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations0
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies0
Book Review: The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism0
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation0
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy0
Beyond Separation of Powers: The Dual Models of Limited and Streamlined Government0
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 Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory0
Deep Disagreement as a Challenge for Democratic Education: Learning to Compromise0
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig0
Is Inequality Ever Justified? Insights From Zhuangzi’s ‘Robber Zhi’0
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem0
The Poetics of Nothingness: Revaluing Nihilism0
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
Lost in translation: The normative and the historical0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences0
Political Trust in the New Age of Autocratization0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited0
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing0
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