European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Theory is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis31
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency . By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 3525
Book Review: Situation und Konstellation: Vom Verschwinden des Spielraums by Rosa Hartmut HartmutRosa, Situation und Konstellation: Vom Verschwinden des 24
From Common Humanity to Sentient Commonality: Pragmatic Sociology and the Moral Worth of Nonhuman Animals17
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration16
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures16
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes16
The moral fog of war and historical sociology15
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?15
Settlements of unsettled places. On the importance of unique locations for social theory14
Marx's three modes of class analysis: A critical reconstruction14
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism13
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms12
A sociology of regret12
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias10
Antiblackness as Modernity's Historical A Priori: Effacement and the Generative Logic of the Global Epistemic Order10
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason10
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future9
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation9
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation9
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine8
Extra/Ordinary moments: Utopia, everyday life and the method of transduction8
Book Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire GeorgeSteinmetz. 2022. The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Over8
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War8
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay7
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses7
Carbon societies’ past, present and future: History, crisis and social transformation7
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society6
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history6
Utopia and Failure: A complex relationship6
Collectivising resonance through ritual: The case of ecological emotions6
Forever failing: Feminist practices of peace in war/violence6
Erratum to “Grand Theory in the Sociological Canon. Scopes, Semantics, and Strategic Usages of a Rhetorical Device since the 1960s”6
Book Review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East ZayaniMohamedKhalilJoe, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.6
“Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure6
Revolutionary failure and utopia: William Morris and the Paris Commune5
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War5
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth5
Marxism as a Prototype for Grand Theories of Society5
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project5
A Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)5
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain5
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)5
Shaping ‘Grand Theories’ Through Their Edition—The Case of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA)5
The Catastrophe of Culture: Art, Critique, and Social Transformation5
Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming5
Book Review: Magical Nominalism – The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment & the Photograph by Martin Jay JayMartin (2025). Magical Nominalism –4
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism4
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus4
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.4
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity4
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere4
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith4
Populism, Governmentality, and Acclamatory Democracy4
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences4
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