Telos

Papers
(The median citation count of Telos 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Introduction2
Imbuing Liberalism with Lost Spirit: Timothy Stacey2
Introduction2
From Kant to Krupp—and Kiev: Vladimir Ern on Kantianism as a Source of War, 1914 and Today2
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Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”1
A Moral Core in a Political Realist: A Centennial Reappraisal of Carl Schmitt’s1
World Spirit in an Electric Vehicle: Elon Musk and the 2024 Presidential Election1
Digital Sovereignty as Postliberalism: A Response to Milton Mueller’s Open Letter1
The New Class Conflict Gets Worse1
Academic Freedom in the Absence of Tenure: Global Lessons from the Australian Experience1
Carl Schmitt and Friedrich Hölderlin on the Earth1
Introduction1
Limiting Academic Freedom to Protect Freedom of Speech1
Barbarism by Any Other Name: Eliminating the NEA and NEH1
Conservative Revolution Today: Postliberalism and Common Good0
The Columbia University Encampment: Joseph Massad, Peter Beinart, and the Future of Campus Antisemitism0
Myth and the Sovereignty of the People in Carl Schmitt’sThe Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy0
Introduction0
Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?0
Some Politics are Local: Homogeneity, Identity, and Legal Revolution in American Democracy0
From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective0
“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations0
Of Civil Wars and Where They Lead: Some Reflections0
Trump, Disruption, and the Bureaucracy0
The Confluence of Western Monotheism and Eastern Buddhism as a Potent Force for World Peace0
Social Media Cannot Be the Public Sphere: On Network Opinion Field from Habermas’s Public Sphere0
Is Democracy Compatible with Christianity? Sergei Bulgakov on the Connection between Democracy and Atheism (or, On the Political Order as Always Already an Act of Sacred Representation)0
Ukraine and World Order: Today’s Scramble for Eurasia0
Navigating Tension and Integration: Cultivating Positive Interaction between Governance and State-Building0
The Anaesthetic Crisis of Work and Leisure: On Byung-Chul Han’sThe Palliative Society0
Academic Freedom in New Zealand0
DEI in the Globalizing University0
For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies ofSFFA v. Harvard0
Byung-Chul Han’s Political Turn0
Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug: Voting for Trump in 20240
The Early Christian Origins of Secularization0
Bleeding Ukraine0
The Burdens of Love and Time0
The End of Affirmative Action Will Help Blacks and Hispanics0
Comfort in Rootlessness0
Human Rights and Nation-State Sovereignty0
Escape from Civilization’s Predicaments0
What Is the Point of Theory?0
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Rise of the Nation-State0
Natural Law and Unalienable Rights0
The Carnival King0
Third Term Comparison0
Can the Precariat Be Organized?: The Gig Economy, Worksite Dispersion, and the Challenge of Mutual Aid0
The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism0
Introduction0
Introduction0
The Second Coming of theTianxiaEmpire?A Theopolitical Interpretation of the (Coming) Sino-Taiwan War0
“China and the West” as Lore and Lure0
The Need for Academic Freedom as an Enforceable Legal Right in Australia0
The Jüngerian Question of Technology0
Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging0
Renewing the West’s Unique Universalism0
The Kyoto School’s Wartime Philosophy of a Multipolar World0
If We Could Stop Fighting Ourselves: Could the Implementation of Günther Jakobs’s Feindstrafrecht Bring About a More Fair Criminal Justice System?0
Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity0
From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther0
Pre-reflective Self-awareness and Polyperspectivity in Chinese Landscape Painting0
We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’sHistory of SexualityVolume 1 Revisited0
The End of the Academy as We Knew It0
A Clash of Accelerationism and Adjudication: DOGE’s Attacks on the Administrative State0
Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt0
Engaging the Other Side: Techniques for Mitigating Resistance to Discourse within the Academy0
On the Spectacles of Market Society0
Introduction to the Special Section on Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023: Uncritical Theory and Antisemitic Semiotics0
The Second American Civil War Is Not Taking Place0
Democracy in America 2024: Election Notes0
Postliberalism: A Genealogy0
Welcome to the Machine: AI, Existential Risk, and the Iron Cage of Modernity0
Tolerance as Suppressed Disapproval0
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory0
Empire, State, Nation: Glory to Ukraine0
Three Decades of Civil War in the United States: “Don’t Tread on Me”0
The Commission on Unalienable Rights: Where Do We Go from Here?0
The 2024 Presidential Election: The Triumph of “the Wily” over “the Woke”0
Toward a Theopolitical of the “International”0
The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests0
Introduction0
Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society0
Toward a Democratic Theory of Emergency Medical Services: Solidarity, Sovereignty, Temporality0
Introduction0
Deweyan Democracy, Secular Religion, and Hegelian Selfhood0
Introduction0
Konstantin Krylov’s Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West0
Palestine Avenue0
Introduction0
Dignity and Human Rights: Aspirations and Challenges in an Age of Political Divisions, Distrust, and AI0
The “Mythological Machine” of Antisemitism: The Recycling of False Accusations against Jews in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction0
America’s New Civil War0
The Return of Politics: Of Fire and Other Elements0
Stand Columbia0
Reforming Higher Education0
A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis0
Xi Jinping’s Political Model and the Typology of Communist Regimes: An Ideological Approach0
Human Rights Practice and Natural Law0
Russians as a “Warrior Nation”: The Formation of a Stereotype in China0
Introduction0
In Memoriam: Fred Siegel0
Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”0
The Clash of Civilization and World Community: The West and China0
Doing Western Studies in China: Its Nature and Methods0
“With Desire I Have Desired”: Enjoying the Face of the Other as Political Theology: John Caputo and Dorothy Day Situating Hospitality as Divine Encounter0
The Prospects for Higher Education after October 70
Decentering the “West” and “China” in China–West Comparison0
The Politics of Virtue0
Making the Hive Great Again: Spiritual Assault and the Politics of Erasure0
Is Communist China a New Type of Civilization? The Civilizational Argument in Contemporary Chinese Ideology0
The Paradox of Self-Transformation, or, Could Totalitarianism Ever Succeed?0
Thomas Carlyle’s Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism0
A Professional-Managerial Imperium: The National Security State and American Power0
After Liberalism0
Narrative with Commentary: Levinasian Discourse Theory0
Contemplation in a Restless Age: Byung-Chul Han on Ritual0
Within an American Grain0
A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shūsaku Endō, and Global IR0
Trump’s New “Golden Age” for America: “This is going to be great television”0
Public Justification in Flawed Democracies0
From Cultural Policing to Culture War: Donald Trump, the Woke War, and Academic Freedom0
The Polemics of China’s Counter Cosmopolitanism0
Locations of China in World Literature0
The Infinite Conversation: Carl Schmitt on Parliamentarism and Romanticism0
The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings0
Why Palestinian Violence Fails0
Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Its Relations with World Literature0
The Jewish Body and the Trans Community after October 7: A Tale of Misidentification0
The European Way(s) of Democracy: Chances and Challenges of Democratic Legitimacy in the European Construction0
The Invisible Hand of the Chinese Communist Party0
Trump and the “Golden Age”0
Carl Schmitt, Don Quixote,and the Public: A Commentary0
What Connects Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Josef Redlich?0
The Trump Restoration0
Dialogues0
notes and commentaries0
Postcolonial Activism: An Infantile Disorder0
Autonomy as Political Ideal of Liberalism0
Back to the Future: Trump, DEI, and Accelerationism0
Losing Streeck: Echoes of Left Anti-Imperialism in Postliberal Discourse0
Reasonableness and the Idea of the Good in a Time of Crisis0
The Savage Savants0
Prospects for Trump’s Second Term: From Economy to Politics... and Back!0
Carl Schmitt, Rousseau, and the French Revolution0
China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison0
Toward a Post-Critical Public Sphere in Germany and the United States0
The Forms of War after 1945: From a World of “Great Wars” to a Planet for “Special Military Operations”0
After the Open Society0
Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics0
The Use and Abuse of Rousseau’s The Social Contract in Modern Political Thought: Toward a Reinterpretation0
The Underlying Unity of the American People0
Family, Tragedy, Democracy, and Populism: The Exchange between Jessica Benjamin and Christopher Lasch0
Civilizations, Autonomy, and War0
Max Stirner, Identity Politics, and the Demand for Conformity from Its Opponents0
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University0
Introduction0
China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order0
Anticipation, Social Theory, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves0
Trump, Populism, and the New Class0
The Place of Truth at the University0
The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road0
The Antinomies of Refugee Reason0
Introduction0
The World Said Built0
Reinventing the Humanities0
Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution for Democratic Despotism0
Realist Internationalism and the Issue of Legitimacy0
Schmitt and the Rising Sun: The Early Reception of Carl Schmitt’s Thought in Imperial Japan0
Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights0
Constitutional Origins of Ethnic Nationalism: Cultural Aporia of a Nation-State0
What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments0
Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West’s Empire of Secularization0
Effective Altruism in between Right-Wing and Left-Wing Anarchisms0
“Oriental Despotism,” Meritocracy, and the Fate of the Global New Class0
Learning from Defeat: Sadik al-Azm and the Arab Defeat in 19670
Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right0
Toward a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: A Perspective to Compare China and the West0
Understanding Chinese Political Study: Historical and Fieldwork Political Study Revisited0
Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today0
Failure Is in the Cards0
Nationality of Food: Cultural Politics on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Museums0
Postliberalism and the Realization of the Common Good0
Diversity and the End of Deference0
The Tensions between Socioeconomic Reforms and Islamic Doctrines in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 20300
Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology0
Ideas of History and the History of Ideas: The Case of the Rustat Monument0
“Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History0
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