OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

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
How much economic inequality is fair in liberal democracies? The approach of proportional justice	8
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice	8
Can meritocracy replace democracy? A conceptual framework	7
Freedom as critique: Foucault beyond anarchism	6
Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status	6
Political meritocracy and its betrayal	5
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 the troubles of Western democracies	4
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 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
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
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
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
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	1
Jean Améry and the time of resentment	1
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism	1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno	1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	1
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen	1
Against ‘institutional racism’	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
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	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
Nietzsche’s shadow: On the origin and development of the term nihilism	1
The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics	1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis	1
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model	1
Freedom and domination through time: Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the plurality of temporalities	1
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	1
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	1
Social ontology in metaethics	1
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory	1
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	1
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state	1
The Lebensform as organism: Clarifying the limits of immanent critique	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
Changing hearts and minds: Cristina Lafont on democratic self-legislation	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
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	1
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective	1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech	1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy	1
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	1
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience	1
Good life egalitarianism	1
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness	1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	1
Truth-tracing versus truth-tracking: Lafont, Landemore and epistemic democracy	1
Philosophical hermeneutics and contemporary Muslim scholars’ approaches to interpreting scripture	1
Feminist takes on post-truth	1
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen	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
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference	1
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?	1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	1
Thinking about Brexit with Cristina Lafont	1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction	1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation	1
World-building and the predicaments of our time	1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty	1
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	1
How a critical Humean naturalism is possible: Contesting the Neo-Aristotelian reading	1