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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	27
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	12
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation	11
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?	10
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach	7
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt	7
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig	6
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology	6
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument	6
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	6
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state	6
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism	6
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience	5
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood	5
Rescuing justice and stability	5
Nominalism, materialism, and history	5
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	4
From agonistic to insurgent democracy	4
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	4
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics	4
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	4
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	4
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)	4
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism	4
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	3

“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 critique	3
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates	3
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	3
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–1925	3
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts	3
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	3
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis	3
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism	3
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	3
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique	3
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	3
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere	3
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement	3
Social ontology in metaethics	3
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	3
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique	2
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx	2
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice	2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	2
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	2
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory	2
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption	2
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy	2
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter	2
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	2
Shame and the question of self-respect	2
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions	2
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?	2
Self-esteem and competition	2
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy	2
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange	2
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–1918	2
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value	2
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis	2
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude	2
Populism in power and its hybridizations	2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power	2
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth	2
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism	2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	2
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India	2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	2
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism	2
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	2
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique	2
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one	2
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology	2
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination	1

Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	1
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance	1
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism	1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority	1
Annotations	1
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics	1
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective	1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”	1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy	1
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	1
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective	1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?	1
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory	1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	1
Response	1
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	1
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception	1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method	1
The fluidity of political legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China	1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism	1
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy	1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism	1
Liberalism and the problem of domination	1
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving	1
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading	1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change	1
The enduring significance of reciprocity	1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	1
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies	1
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect	1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence	1
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	1
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership	1
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs	1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology	1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access	1
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation	1
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought	1
Truth queens and gallows humor	1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	1
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation	1
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals	1
Can the Confucian dream of peace dialogue with Realpolitik?	1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind	1
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations	1
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race	1
Arendt, free will, and action	1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam	1
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy	1
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?	1
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change	1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?	1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	1
The text folds: Disappearing race/gender in South African visual art world discourse	1
The made and the made-up	1
Eyes on the street: To what end?	1
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea	1
A tripartite model of federalism	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
Jesuit Kaddish and I	1
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	1
Reason to hope	1
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty	1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction	1
#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge	1
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples	1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity	1