Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary Political 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
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon79
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures40
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible23
Conspiracy and power11
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt6
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition5
The claims of experience: autobiography and American democracy5
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists4
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly4
A philosopher’s economist: Hume and the rise of capitalism4
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat4
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence4
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity4
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx3
Police abolition3
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy3
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation3
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique3
Immigration and freedom3
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century3
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice2
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation2
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology2
Walter Benjamin’s antifascist education: from riddles to radio2
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics2
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)2
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics2
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative2
Screens and souls2
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions2
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state2
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics2
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory1
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem1
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall1
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating1
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration1
The enabling value of group vulnerability1
The Epistemic Value of Testimony1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene1
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa1
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism1
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20201
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory1
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism1
Disability and political theory1
The politics of care1
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital1
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
The dangerous class: The concept of the lumpenproletariat1
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom1
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability0
Deliberative Democracy0
Democracy Rules0
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme0
Insurgent truth. Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling0
Conservatism0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
Restitution and the politics of repair: Tropes, imaginaries, theories0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
Intimate terrains of black possibility0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Languages of transnational revolution: The ‘Republicans of Nacogdoches’ and ideological code-switching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics0
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
The green case for a randomly selected chamber0
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution0
Rawls’s egalitarianism0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
Political parties and republican democracy0
Anarchafeminism0
Constituent power in the European Union0
Contemporary democratic theory0
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration0
Anarchism mainstreamed? On recent trends, challenges and opportunities in anarchist scholarship0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
The poverty of our freedom0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
The right to sex0
Bataille’s anti-fascism0
Modernity’s exclusions0
Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: an exchange on subjection and emancipation0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
Constituent power and its institutions0
On critical genealogy0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
Left is not woke0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue0
Feminist sexual futures0
The problem of value pluralism. Isaiah Berlin and beyond0
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Liberalism as a Way of Life0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
The art of parasitical resistance0
Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Comparative political theory, indigenous resurgence, and epistemic justice: From deparochialization to treaty0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation0
A false tree of liberty: Human rights in radical thought0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice0
Non-living politics0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement0
Breaking intersubjectivity: a critical theory of counter-revolutionary trauma in Egypt0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
Reconsidering reparations0
The politics of repair0
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
Migrants in the profane0
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
Return to Ecotopia?0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
The (anti)-democratic spirit of populism0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right0
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation0
Correction to: Constituent assemblies0
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory0
Democracy and exclusion0
Regaining control over precarity0
From missed opportunities to future possibilities: Towards an improper politics0
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species0
Grand narratives in critical international theory0
A feminist theory of refusal0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
Judith Butler and Politics0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
Carl Schmitt’s early legal-theoretical writings: Statute and judgment and the value of the state and the significance of the individual0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times0
Acting as if: the utopian political thought and actions of the US disability rights movement0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals0
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory0
Who needs a world view?0
Visionary political theory0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture0
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics0
Fear of breakdown: Politics and psychoanalysis0
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech0
Material conditions and human freedom0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
The political theory of global supply chains0
Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject0
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization0
Politics in the Time of COVID0
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
The power of political representation0
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism0
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