Philosophy & Social Criticism

Article	Citations
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”	15
Political realism, legitimacy, and a place for external critique	11
Gentrification and the racialization of space	10
‘Cin ciun cian’ (ching chong): Yellowness and neo-orientalism in Italy at the time of COVID-19	9
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice	8
How much economic inequality is fair in liberal democracies? The approach of proportional justice	8
Can meritocracy replace democracy? A conceptual framework	7
Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status	6
Freedom as critique: Foucault beyond anarchism	6
The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement	5
Democracy’s critical infrastructure: Rethinking intermediary powers	5
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?	5
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?	5
Towards Confucian democratic meritocracy	5
Political meritocracy and its betrayal	5
Towards a principle of most-deeply affected	4
Capitalism as a space of reasons: Analytic, neo-Hegelian Marxism?	4
Refugees: The politically oppressed	4
Freedom of speech: A relational defence	4
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value	4
Populism, localism and democratic citizenship	4
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality	4
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs	4
Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies	4
The gentle way in governing: Foucault and the question of neoliberalism	3

Carl Schmitt and the authoritarian subversion of democracy	3
The challenge of Confucian political meritocracy: A critical introduction	3
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation	3
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood	3
More than good executives: The teaching mission of Confucian political leaders	3
What’s good about the good life? Action theory, virtue ethics and modern morality	3
Democratic legitimacy, political speech and viewpoint neutrality	3
Between order and insurgency: Post-structuralism and the problem of justice	3
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig	3
Political meritocracy versus ethical democracy: The Confucian political ideal revisited	3
Étienne Balibar on the dialectic of universal citizenship	3
#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge	3
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism	3
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance	3
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics	3
Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices	2
Adorno and climate science denial: Lies that sound like truth	2
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption	2
A militant defence of democracy: A few replies to my critics	2
Of savages and Stoics: Converging moral and political ideals in the conjectural histories of Rousseau and Ferguson	2
At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations	2
Beyond the political principle: Applying Martin Buber’s philosophy to societal polarization	2
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights	2
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	2
Democratic deliberation and economic democracy	2
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude	2
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism	2
The people and the voters	2
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication	2
Expropriation of the expropriators	2
Critique and cognitive capacities: Towards an action-oriented model	2
Beyond emergency politics: Carl Schmitt’s substantive constitutionalism	2
Preserving spontaneous order: A normative reflection of community building in post-reform China	2
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy	2
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics	2
From formal semantics to transcendental pragmatics: Karl-Otto Apel’s original insight	2
Malinchism as a social pathology	2
Mapping the individual and the community in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.	2
World out of difference: Relations and consequences	2
Foucault and fugitive study	2
Where is the Breughel Village? Community and the radical tradition	2
Juridification as politics: An institutional view	2
World-building and the predicaments of our time	1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction	1
Nietzsche’s shadow: On the origin and development of the term nihilism	1
How a critical Humean naturalism is possible: Contesting the Neo-Aristotelian reading	1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty	1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis	1
Jean Améry and the time of resentment	1
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	1

Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno	1
Social ontology in metaethics	1
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen	1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory	1
Against ‘institutional racism’	1
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state	1
Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacy	1
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger	1
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science	1
Communities and the individual: Beyond the liberal–communitarian divide	1
Changing hearts and minds: Cristina Lafont on democratic self-legislation	1
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	1
‘Lost in the marketplace of ideas: Towards a new constitution for free speech after Trump and Twitter?’	1
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	1
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model	1
The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics	1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	1
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	1
Freedom and domination through time: Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the plurality of temporalities	1
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	1
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	1
Good life egalitarianism	1
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	1
The Lebensform as organism: Clarifying the limits of immanent critique	1
Philosophical hermeneutics and contemporary Muslim scholars’ approaches to interpreting scripture	1
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory	1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	1
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	1
Legitimizing political power from below. A reinterpretation of the founding myths of Thebes, Athens, and Rome as a critique against private and public violence	1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	1
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference	1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech	1
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective	1
Thinking about Brexit with Cristina Lafont	1
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience	1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy	1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation	1
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness	1
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	1
Truth-tracing versus truth-tracking: Lafont, Landemore and epistemic democracy	1
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	1
Feminist takes on post-truth	1
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism	1
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen	1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices	1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity	1
Carl Schmitt in the 21st century: A response to critics	1
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique	1
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?	1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	1
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement	0
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis	0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	0
Self-esteem and competition	0
Annotations	0
Privileging argument and the problem of ideology: Some ‘activist challenges’	0
Forced marriages and unintentional divorces: The national attitudes in Armenia and Uzbekistan towards the ‘Russian World’	0
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–1918	0
Annotations	0
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience	0
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	0
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	0
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective	0
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	0
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination	0
Paternalism, respect and dialogue	0
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique	0
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy	0
Annotations	0
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political	0
Symposium on William E. Scheuerman's The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century	0
Populism in power and its hybridizations	0
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing	0
From agonistic to insurgent democracy	0
Which Axial Age, whose rituals? Habermas and Jaspers on the ‘spiritual’ situation of the present age	0

Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)	0
Freedom of expression as self-restraint	0
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation	0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change	0
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	0
Book Review: Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics	0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?	0
The Sine Qua Non of Carl Schmitt’s political thinking: The issue of interstate relations	0
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	0
Power and normativity: Rainer Forst on noumenal power	0
Lottocracy and deliberative accountability	0
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought	0
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique	0
The substance of procedures	0
Paradoxes of democracy: Rousseau and Hegel on democratic deliberation	0
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies	0
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts	0
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	0
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea	0
Shame and the question of self-respect	0
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one	0
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo	0
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy	0
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method	0
Liberalism and the problem of domination	0
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership	0
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	0
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving	0
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples	0
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access	0
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument	0
Eyes on the street: To what end?	0
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading	0
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	0
Book Review: Civil Disobedience	0
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter	0
The populist critique of ‘Corrupted’ representative claim making	0
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	0
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals	0
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique	0
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?	0
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates	0
Truth queens and gallows humor	0
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–1925	0
The expertocratic shortcut	0
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India	0
Meritocracy and resentment	0
Nominalism, materialism, and history	0
Jesuit Kaddish and I	0
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	0
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	0
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange	0
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty	0
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	0
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach	0
The brooding omnipresence of Carl Schmitt in contemporary jurisprudence: Reflections on William Scheuerman’s The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the 21st century	0
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception	0
Illiberal polity as the retribution of post-imperial nation-building: The case of Turkey	0
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	0
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity	0
Individual and community	0
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	0
Under duress: Community and individual as solace and escape in the Middle East	0
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	0
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere	0
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology	0
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race	0
The made and the made-up	0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis	0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’saesthetic theory	0
The theory of the public sphere as a cognitive theory of modern society	0
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?	0
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy	0
Democracy without Shortcuts: Engaging with Lafont	0
A tripartite model of federalism	0
Pandemic and human lifeworld: A manifest/hidden warfare	0
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam	0
Bringing gender and religion in: Right-wing networks and “Populism and Civil Society”	0
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”	0
A militant defence of democracy in hard times	0
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism	0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective	0
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt	0
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect	0
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	0
Schmittean logic	0
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions	0
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	0
Rescuing justice and stability	0
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	0
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology	0
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx	0
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline	0
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”	0