Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions47
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly11
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation7
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat7
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible6
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century6
The politics of care5
Democracy and exclusion4
Modernity’s exclusions4
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital4
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics4
Imagining democratic insurgency: enthusiasm, sublimity, and finitude4
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory4
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem4
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement4
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)3
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran3
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech3
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution3
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability3
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach3
Correction to: The Epistemic Value of Testimony3
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times2
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice2
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition2
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos2
Who needs a world view?2
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries2
Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy2
Anarchafeminism2
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality2
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses1
Rethinking political thinkers1
Liberalism as a Way of Life1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene1
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation1
Screens and souls1
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality1
Fear of breakdown: Politics and psychoanalysis1
The political theory of global supply chains1
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy1
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory1
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism1
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights1
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution1
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom1
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
Hegel’s world revolutions0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)0
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics0
The late Marx’s revolutionary roads: colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
Free speech and social change: a public reason approach0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
Contemporary democratic theory0
The politics of repair0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought0
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
The art of parasitical resistance0
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
Immigration and freedom0
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Return to Ecotopia?0
The poverty of our freedom0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
What remains: the collected poems of Hannah Arendt0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics0
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics0
Contesting the far right: a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory0
Solar politics0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times0
Judith Butler and Politics0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20200
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals0
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Deliberative Democracy0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
New perspectives on Judith Shklar0
A feminist theory of refusal0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
Conspiracy and power0
Grand narratives in critical international theory0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence0
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data0
The anarchist before the law: law without authority0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution0
Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination0
On Sympathies and the work of Public Things: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Challenge to Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian Statue and Settler Fantasy0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right0
Decolonizing dignity0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
Constituent power in the European Union0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics0
Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories0
Intimate terrains of black possibility0
Untangling the paradox of the antipolitical politician: populism, antipolitics, and the family0
Civic education in polarized times0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture0
Misplaced ideas?: Political-intellectual history in Latin America0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Thinking democracy in a digital age0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
The enabling value of group vulnerability0
Conservatism0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
Democracy Rules0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism0
Legalizing the revolution: India and the constitution of the postcolony0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt0
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration0
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy0
Reconsidering reparations0
The right to sex0
Left is not woke0
Visionary political theory0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice0
The power of political representation0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon0
The political theory of liberal socialism0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world0
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
Democracy despite itself: liberal constitutionalism and militant democracy0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state0
Equality: what it means and why it matters0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas0
On critical genealogy0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity0
A false tree of liberty: Human rights in radical thought0
Non-living politics0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment0
Police abolition0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
Rawls’s egalitarianism0
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