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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression27
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments12
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation11
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?10
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt7
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach7
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology6
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument6
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx6
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state6
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism6
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig6
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood5
Rescuing justice and stability5
Nominalism, materialism, and history5
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience5
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics4
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar4
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form4
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)4
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism4
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla4
From agonistic to insurgent democracy4
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today4
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts3
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community3
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis3
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism3
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism3
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique3
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China3
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere3
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement3
Social ontology in metaethics3
Marcuse’s critique of technology today3
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action3
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”3
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique3
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates3
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory3
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19253
Shame and the question of self-respect2
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions2
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?2
Self-esteem and competition2
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy2
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange2
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–19182
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value2
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis2
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude2
Populism in power and its hybridizations2
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power2
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach2
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism2
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy2
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique2
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one2
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology2
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique2
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx2
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism2
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view2
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory2
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption2
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy2
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter2
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment2
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”1
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen1
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective1
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism1
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy1
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism1
Liberalism and the problem of domination1
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation1
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving1
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history1
Truth queens and gallows humor1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change1
The enduring significance of reciprocity1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt1
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation1
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect1
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence1
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?1
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric1
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals1
Can the Confucian dream of peace dialogue with Realpolitik?1
Eyes on the street: To what end?1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy1
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations1
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race1
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism1
Arendt, free will, and action1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy1
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?1
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’1
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?1
#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge1
The text folds: Disappearing race/gender in South African visual art world discourse1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
The made and the made-up1
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea1
A tripartite model of federalism1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation1
Jesuit Kaddish and I1
Reason to hope1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty1
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?1
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination1
Response1
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen1
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance1
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception1
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
Annotations1
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics1
The fluidity of political legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
Cin ciun cian’ (ching chong): Yellowness and neo-orientalism in Italy at the time of COVID-190
From right to might, and back: Functional legitimacy as a realist value0
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance0
Annotations0
Thus spoke the student from Bologna: On behalf of the blush and confusion0
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Realism in the ethics of immigration0
On the square0
Political friendship, respect, community: Hannah Arendt’s de-materialization of Aristotelian political friendship0
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush0
Poetry and democratic education0
Expropriation of the expropriators0
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen0
The gentle way in governing: Foucault and the question of neoliberalism0
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao0
Feminist takes on post-truth0
Constitution as recommendation0
Book Review: A glitch in the matrix: The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn0
Inter-independence, dialogue, sustainability after globalization0
Understanding the democratic promise of the city0
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice0
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change0
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy0
How to do things with “the Fact of Reason”: A new interpretation of a well-known concept in Kant’s philosophy0
Against ‘institutional racism’0
Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school0
When political liberalism meets a communalist worldview: John Rawls and African view of human rights0
Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny0
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech0
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno0
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?0
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty0
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality0
How to feminist affect: Feminist comedy and post-truth politics0
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism0
Populism and critical theory: On Arato and Cohen0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem0
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film0
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’0
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience0
The violence inherent in the system0
MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements0
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics0
‘A link in an intergenerational chain’: Sovereignty and justice in Ferrara’s sovereignty across generations0
Derrida's Wheel – The Circularity of Political (R)Evolutions0
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility0
The constitution as a law of lawmaking: Comments on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Balancing the digital universe: Power and patterns in the new public sphere0
Democratic freedom as an aesthetic achievement: Peirce, Schiller and Cavell on aesthetic experience, play and democratic freedom0
A Game of Jacks: Review Essay of John D. Caputo's Recent Works0
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass0
The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory0
Lost in translation: The normative and the historical0
Where does philosophy begin when rationality is denied? Tsenay Serequeberhan’s concept of a lived existence as a means of decolonizing philosophy0
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’0
Beyond technocracy and political theology: John Dewey and the authority of truth0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited0
From liberal to multiculturalist nationalism: Confronting autocratic nationalism0
The public sphere and democracy in transformation: Continuing the debate – An introduction0
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory0
“Unpacking state-society relations in the urban space: What are the Limit(s) of compromise?”. The dilemma about answering such a question and some recent Venetian experiences0
Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake?0
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality0
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour0
Demobilized democracy: Plebiscitarianism as political theology0
Public reason under the tree: Rawls and the African palaver0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination0
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices0
A full ideology as driver for authoritarian dynamics: Comment to Populism and Civil Society0
Public and private interests in Han Fei: A statist approach0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment0
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?0
Introduction: Dreams of peace and realities of war. The friend-enemy polarization0
Mutual recognition across generations0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited0
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?0
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics0
The Luxembourg Symposium on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
A postcosmopolitan condition? Economic progressivism and the return of great power war0
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication0
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie0
Threats to academic freedom: The French case0
Revisiting the climate general strike: Working through William Connolly’s strategic turn in the Anthropocene0
World-building and the predicaments of our time0
The symbolic work of political discourse. Populist reason and its foundational myth0
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Racism, epistemic injustice, and ideology critique0
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires0
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’0
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen0
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism0
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
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