European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Theory 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 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
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration15
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument15
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
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
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique5
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
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective4
Book Review: Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture4
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
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
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
Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation2
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice2
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