Contemporary Political Theory

Article	Citations
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions	47
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly	11
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation	7
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat	7
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century	6
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible	6
The politics of care	5
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory	4
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem	4
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement	4
Democracy and exclusion	4
Modernity’s exclusions	4
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital	4
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics	4
Imagining democratic insurgency: enthusiasm, sublimity, and finitude	4
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability	3
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach	3
Correction to: The Epistemic Value of Testimony	3
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)	3
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran	3
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech	3
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution	3
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos	2
Who needs a world view?	2
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries	2

Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy	2
Anarchafeminism	2
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality	2
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times	2
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice	2
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition	2
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists	1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology	1
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory	1
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism	1
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights	1
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution	1
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics	1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom	1
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics	1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding	1
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses	1
Rethinking political thinkers	1
Liberalism as a Way of Life	1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene	1
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation	1
Screens and souls	1
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality	1
Fear of breakdown: Politics and psychoanalysis	1
The political theory of global supply chains	1
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy	1
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall	0
On Sympathies and the work of Public Things: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Challenge to Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian Statue and Settler Fantasy	0
Democracy Rules	0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right	0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation	0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency	0
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene	0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance	0
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration	0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history	0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness	0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining	0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism	0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice	0
Reconsidering reparations	0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy	0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability	0
The right to sex	0
Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories	0
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon	0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century	0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture	0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology	0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory	0

Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries	0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights	0
Democracy despite itself: liberal constitutionalism and militant democracy	0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit	0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination	0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation	0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences	0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought	0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles	0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state	0
Conservatism	0
Constituent power in the European Union	0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments	0
Thinking democracy in a digital age	0
Civic education in polarized times	0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity	0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction	0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics	0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it	0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times	0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice	0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory	0
Police abolition	0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt	0
Non-living politics	0
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy	0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment	0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies	0
Visionary political theory	0
Hegel’s world revolutions	0
The power of political representation	0
The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation	0
The enabling value of group vulnerability	0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism	0
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics	0
The political theory of liberal socialism	0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy	0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society	0
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism	0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination	0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back	0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements	0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice	0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe	0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating	0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy	0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement	0
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation	0
The politics of repair	0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate	0
Legalizing the revolution: India and the constitution of the postcolony	0
On critical genealogy	0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating	0
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought	0
Equality: what it means and why it matters	0
Left is not woke	0
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School	0
Immigration and freedom	0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 2020	0
Rawls’s egalitarianism	0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement	0
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures	0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish	0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy	0
Return to Ecotopia?	0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)	0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world	0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics	0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft	0
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative	0
Contesting the far right: a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach	0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right	0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads	0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history	0
The late Marx’s revolutionary roads: colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism	0
A false tree of liberty: Human rights in radical thought	0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory	0
Free speech and social change: a public reason approach	0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas	0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society	0

The future lost and how to reclaim it	0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding	0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking	0
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 2020	0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight	0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action	0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA	0
Contemporary democratic theory	0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain	0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals	0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics	0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)	0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present	0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change	0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice	0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship	0
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy	0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism	0
The art of parasitical resistance	0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou	0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought	0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict	0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics	0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics	0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles	0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)	0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics	0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action	0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics	0
Deliberative Democracy	0
The poverty of our freedom	0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy	0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice	0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization	0
New perspectives on Judith Shklar	0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa	0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”	0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics	0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance	0
Judith Butler and Politics	0
Conspiracy and power	0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought	0
Solar politics	0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy	0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition	0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence	0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage	0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship	0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt	0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology	0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law	0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue	0
Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation	0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand	0
What remains: the collected poems of Hannah Arendt	0
The anarchist before the law: law without authority	0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions	0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy	0
Decolonizing dignity	0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history	0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought	0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age	0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good	0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism	0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique	0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography	0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times	0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy	0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation	0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence	0
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation	0
Untangling the paradox of the antipolitical politician: populism, antipolitics, and the family	0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory	0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx	0
A feminist theory of refusal	0
Intimate terrains of black possibility	0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy	0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith	0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation	0
Grand narratives in critical international theory	0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics	0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze	0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies	0
Misplaced ideas?: Political-intellectual history in Latin America	0
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view	0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory	0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)	0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought	0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power	0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution	0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets	0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data	0
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization	0