OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy & Social Criticism is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Political Capability Approach to Corporate Power: A “Political” Political Theory of the Corporation	30
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	30
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	24
Rescuing justice and stability	15
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	11
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	10
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	9
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault	8
Solidarity as a political resource: Keeping it real, feasible, and effective	7
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts	7
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	6
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	6
Constitutional Essentials : Does it meet the realist critique?	5
Liberalism and the problem of domination	5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	5
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	5
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	5
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	5
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	5
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy	4
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	4
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	4
Annotations	4
Caritas and hopelessness in Hannah Arendt’s and Simone Weil’s interpretations of Saint Augustine	4
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	4

Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	4
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	4
Populism and Empowerment	4
Succeeding the Mandate of Heaven: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Early Joseon Korea	4
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy	4
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	4
Alexander von Humboldt on race: Beyond the Kantian frame	4
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu	4
Drucilla Cornell’s Revolutionary Thinking	4
Loneliness and radicalization	3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser	3
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture	3
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics	3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	3
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	3
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	3
Mutual recognition across generations	3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed	3
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar	3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno	3
Against ‘institutional racism’	3
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity	3
A Philosophical Sketch of Confucian Cosmopolitanism: The Liberal International Political Theory of New Confucianism	3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power	3
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	2
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism	2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	2
What Incentive Structures Do to Political Philosophy: Epistemic Pathologies and Institutional Design	2
Adorno and negative dialectics: The case of feminist religious agency	2
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	2
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	2
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty	2
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	2
Self-esteem and competition	2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres	2
Against received opinion : Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy	2
The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Psychopower, Attention, and the Crisis of the Public Sphere	2
Arendt on earth	2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	2
The Political Lives of Pain	2
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership	2
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China	2
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	2
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism	2

Shame and the question of self-respect	2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	2
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon	2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy	2
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)	2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power	2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	2
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue	2
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	2
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation	2
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind	2
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique	2
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	2
Exploitation and Unjust Structures: Towards an Account of Systemic Exploitation	2
Social ontology in metaethics	2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao	2