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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism28
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla11
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community11
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx9
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts8
Rescuing justice and stability7
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments7
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression6
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom6
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory6
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions5
Marcuse’s critique of technology today5
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?5
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault5
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen5
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’4
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history4
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance4
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism4
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?4
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy4
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come4
Liberalism and the problem of domination4
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy4
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective3
Freedom of expression as self-restraint3
Annotations3
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique3
Beyond the political principle: Applying Martin Buber’s philosophy to societal polarization3
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure3
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt3
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed3
Foucault and fugitive study3
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction3
Paternalism, respect and dialogue3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno3
The aporetic humanism of early Derrida3
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power3
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?2
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao2
The just price and the gains from exchange2
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics2
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge2
Loneliness and radicalization2
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen2
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush2
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience2
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality2
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere2
Against ‘institutional racism’2
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser2
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’2
Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)2
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism2
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance2
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture2
Mutual recognition across generations2
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie2
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics2
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights2
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
Kurdish liberty1
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument1
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today1
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’1
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty1
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue1
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
Constitution as recommendation1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality1
Threats to academic freedom: The French case1
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation1
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19251
Freedom of speech: A relational defence1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice1
Social ontology in metaethics1
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno1
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’1
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics1
Shame and the question of self-respect1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen1
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty1
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
On the Wrongness of Lies1
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech1
Self-esteem and competition1
Oedipal fragments: Reconsidering the significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault1
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness1
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy1
A Game of Jacks: Review Essay of John D. Caputo's Recent Works1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?1
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions1
Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey1
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action1
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault1
The public sphere and democracy in transformation: Continuing the debate – An introduction0
A green Rosa: Toward a Luxemburgian environmental ethic0
Three forms of philosophical theatre in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks0
The text folds: Disappearing race/gender in South African visual art world discourse0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change0
Beyond Han’s critique: The location of the Other0
‘A link in an intergenerational chain’: Sovereignty and justice in Ferrara’s sovereignty across generations0
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy0
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences0
Response0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour0
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political0
Constituent power in political liberalism: Constraining the future?0
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication0
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility0
A tripartite model of federalism0
Lost in translation: The normative and the historical0
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy0
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea0
The made and the made-up0
Dreams of peace and realities of war. The friend-enemy polarization0
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination0
‘The fewer the enemies, the more the enemies’: The enigma of absolute hostility0
‘Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law?0
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples0
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung” revisited: Distinguishing two paradigms of working through the past0
Beyond technocracy and political theology: John Dewey and the authority of truth0
Reason to hope0
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations0
Book Review: Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology and Dialectics0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen0
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”0
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era0
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?0
Étienne Balibar on the dialectic of universal citizenship0
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness0
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique0
Critical citizenship and democratic legitimacy0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy0
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective0
Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny0
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership0
Marcusean resources to think coloniality0
Book Review: The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism0
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics0
Hegel on war: From the Holy Roman Empire to the modern state and colonialism0
Feminist takes on post-truth0
The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?0
Populism in power and its hybridizations0
Radical labour republicanism: A defence0
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy0
Reviving militant democracy: A reply to Niesen0
Philosophy and the study of capitalism0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires0
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy0
Jesuits and Jews, and the way we dare to think: A Jesuit’s reflections on James Bernauer’s Jesuit Kaddish0
Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism0
Arendt, free will, and action0
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience0
The confusion about conversion: Competing narratives and nationalist violence in India0
Social norms and social practices0
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”0
Rancière reading Plato: Myth against sociology0
The subject, the worker, and the slave reification, capitalism, and the divestment of reason from freedom0
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change0
Setting struggle in motion: From ‘non-violence’ to revolutionary anti-violence0
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective0
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited0
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect0
The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited0
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig0
Polycrisis as collapse of the ‘universal and homogeneous state’0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem0
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism0
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science0
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