European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East35
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism19
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right18
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict18
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument15
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration15
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene14
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms14
Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene?12
Postscript: On the moral case for solidarity with Ukraine: A reply10
Book review: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment10
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis7
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking7
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity6
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society6
Reflexive anthropology: On the method-guided construction of premises in social theory6
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler6
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects6
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique5
Book Review: Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary Jaworski5
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society5
Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought5
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history5
Articulate the missing: The role of religion in political modernity5
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective4
Book Review: Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture4
Decolonizing deliberative democracy4
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival4
Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society4
Special Section Institutionalized Anti-Anti-Semitism in Germany4
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty3
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes3
History, sociology and the study of empires: Reflections of a historical sociologist3
Winch’s Idea at sixty-five: Its point and implications for the prospects of sociology3
International morality and international law3
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization3
Book review3
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler3
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)3
Book review: The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960–19903
Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation2
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice2
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume2
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism2
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)2
Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation2
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–20202
Death and the form of life2
Poverty as capability deprivation: Considering the relational approach, group-based analysis, and socio-structural lens2
Reformulating emancipation in the Anthropocene: From didactic apocalypse to planetary subjectivities2
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures2
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence2
Activated. Towards a sociology of reaction2
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?2
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility2
The moral fog of war and historical sociology2
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age2
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress1
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms1
Erratum to ‘In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right’1
Capitalism and alienation: Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century1
A different kind of emancipation? From lifestyle to form-of-life1
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine by Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day1
A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration1
A sociology of regret1
Wolfgang Streeck on consumption, depoliticisation and neoliberal capitalism1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory1
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’1
Dependency denial in crisis: Revisiting feminist critiques of dualism1
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity1
Gramsci, social theory and migration1
On algorithmic mediations1
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept1
Book review: Populism in the Civil Sphere1
Afterword: Thinking futures1
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future0
Democratic socialism or barbarism: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Book review: The enlightenment and violence0
No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism0
The governance of possible futures and the regime of modern historicity: Critical theory and the modality of possibility0
The anti-authoritarian revolt: Right-wing populism as self-empowerment?0
Book Review: The Making of Meaning: From the Individual to Social Order, Selections from Niklas Luhmann’s Works on Semantics and Social Structure0
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity0
Techno-feudalism or platform capitalism? Conceptualising the digital society0
Iconoclastic critics? Understanding the ‘just like a religion’ critique0
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope0
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses0
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Performativity: Model and meaning in a post-Austinian frame0
Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World0
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser0
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism0
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay0
Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading0
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans0
Book Review: Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology0
Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future0
Thinking beyond the ecological present: Critical theory on the self-problematization of society and its transformation0
Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds0
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory0
Reflections on ecological social theory marking 50 years of E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful0
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society0
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith0
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine0
Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriously0
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity0
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times0
Polanyi’s discovery of society and the digital phase of the industrial revolution0
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology0
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective0
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”0
Putin’s Russia: A commentary on Professor Kögler’s perspective0
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War0
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination0
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld0
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere0
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty0
Schumacher against globalism and ecomodernism: Ecology, subsidiarity and the politics of scale0
Emancipatory struggles and their political organisation: How political parties and social movements respond to changing notions of emancipation0
Future-cultures: How future imaginations disseminate throughout the social0
Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away0
Social theory and migration research in dialog0
Property, credit, and monetary sabotage: Contemporary capitalism in institutionalist perspective0
Meta-economics, scale and contemporary social theory: Re-reading E. F. Schumacher’sSmall is Beautiful0
Liberation and limitation: Emancipatory politics, socio-ecological transformation and the grammar of the autocratic-authoritarian turn0
Mind the gap(s): Moral philosophy, international law and interpretative historical sociology0
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited0
Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction0
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain0
Book Review: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse0
Postcolonialism as the governmentality of immigration controls0
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth0
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”0
Book Review: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)0
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine0
Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs0
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation0
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)0
The rise and fall of social movements: A tribute to Alain Touraine (1925–2023)0
Book review: Technopopulism: The new logic of democratic politics0
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies0
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles0
Between temporalities, imaginaries and imagination: A framework for analysing futures0
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus0
Black Marxism, Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective0
Too many aporias? A commentary on Heidrun Friese's essay on institutionalized anti-antisemitism0
Book review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire0
Foucauldian perspectives on migration and society: The epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population”0
Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences0
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations0
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective0
When did biopolitics begin? Actuality and potentiality in historical events0
Domination through precarization: From Butler’s humanitarian ethics to Marx’s political economy0
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War0
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism0
Book review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch0
On the colonization of the environment0
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias0
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality0
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter0
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