Philosophy & Social Criticism

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophy & Social Criticism is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism30
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx16
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts15
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments14
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory12
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view12
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions12
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community8
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom7
Rescuing justice and stability7
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla6
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault6
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression6
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?5
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy5
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history5
Marcuse’s critique of technology today5
Liberalism and the problem of domination5
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen5
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?5
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment5
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism4
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective4
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come4
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction4
Annotations4
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy4
Paternalism, respect and dialogue4
Freedom of expression as self-restraint3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics3
Foucault and fugitive study3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge3
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure3
The aporetic humanism of early Derrida3
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser3
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed3
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt3
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique3
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism3
Loneliness and radicalization3
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass2
Against ‘institutional racism’2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao2
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience2
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’2
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)2
Mutual recognition across generations2
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism2
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film2
Social ontology in metaethics2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance2
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen2
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture2
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere2
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?2
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy2
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush2
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality2
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity2
The just price and the gains from exchange2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres2
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory2
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument1
Constitution as recommendation1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism1
On the Wrongness of Lies1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity1
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism1
Oedipal fragments: Reconsidering the significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
Democracy’s ruling hand1
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation1
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power1
Antagonism forever. On conservative left-wing philosophy in Mouffe, Žižek, and Kristeva1
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19251
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics1
Self-esteem and competition1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange1
Shame and the question of self-respect1
Kurdish liberty1
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership1
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
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics1
Threats to academic freedom: The French case1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice1
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one1
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis1
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)1
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
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
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help1
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
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault1
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?1
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey1
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