Philosophy & Social Criticism

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophy & Social Criticism 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”14
Political realism, legitimacy, and a place for external critique11
Cin ciun cian’ (ching chong): Yellowness and neo-orientalism in Italy at the time of COVID-199
Gentrification and the racialization of space9
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice8
How much economic inequality is fair in liberal democracies? The approach of proportional justice8
Can meritocracy replace democracy? A conceptual framework6
Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status6
Freedom as critique: Foucault beyond anarchism6
Democracy’s critical infrastructure: Rethinking intermediary powers5
Towards Confucian democratic meritocracy5
The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement5
Capitalism as a space of reasons: Analytic, neo-Hegelian Marxism?4
Refugees: The politically oppressed4
Freedom of speech: A relational defence4
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?4
Populism, localism and democratic citizenship4
Towards a principle of most-deeply affected4
Political meritocracy and its betrayal4
Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies4
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value4
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?3
Carl Schmitt and the authoritarian subversion of democracy3
The challenge of Confucian political meritocracy: A critical introduction3
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism3
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs3
The gentle way in governing: Foucault and the question of neoliberalism3
More than good executives: The teaching mission of Confucian political leaders3
Étienne Balibar on the dialectic of universal citizenship3
Democratic legitimacy, political speech and viewpoint neutrality3
Between order and insurgency: Post-structuralism and the problem of justice3
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics3
Political meritocracy versus ethical democracy: The Confucian political ideal revisited3
Habermas and the critique of political economy3
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality3
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation3
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance3
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood3
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism2
The futures of ‘us’: A critical phenomenology of the aporias of ethical community in the Anthropocene2
The people and the voters2
Historical materialism as mediation between the physical and the meaningful2
World out of difference: Relations and consequences2
Foucault and fugitive study2
Where is the Breughel Village? Community and the radical tradition2
Juridification as politics: An institutional view2
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics2
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude2
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption2
Mapping the individual and the community in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.2
At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations2
Critique and cognitive capacities: Towards an action-oriented model2
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge2
What’s good about the good life? Action theory, virtue ethics and modern morality2
Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices2
Adorno and climate science denial: Lies that sound like truth2
From formal semantics to transcendental pragmatics: Karl-Otto Apel’s original insight2
A militant defence of democracy: A few replies to my critics2
Of savages and Stoics: Converging moral and political ideals in the conjectural histories of Rousseau and Ferguson2
Expropriation of the expropriators2
Beyond the political principle: Applying Martin Buber’s philosophy to societal polarization2
Beyond emergency politics: Carl Schmitt’s substantive constitutionalism2
Preserving spontaneous order: A normative reflection of community building in post-reform China2
Democratic deliberation and economic democracy2
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation1
Jean Améry and the time of resentment1
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx1
Feminist takes on post-truth1
Social ontology in metaethics1
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen1
Philosophical hermeneutics and contemporary Muslim scholars’ approaches to interpreting scripture1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state1
Carl Schmitt in the 21st century: A response to critics1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt1
Towards an affective philosophy of the digital: Posthumanism, hybrid agglomerations and Spinoza1
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective1
Freedom and domination through time: Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the plurality of temporalities1
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric1
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience1
Nietzsche’s shadow: On the origin and development of the term nihilism1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno1
Good life egalitarianism1
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen1
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism1
Against ‘institutional racism’1
Malinchism as a social pathology1
Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacy1
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism1
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions1
‘Lost in the marketplace of ideas: Towards a new constitution for free speech after Trump and Twitter?’1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty1
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction1
Changing hearts and minds: Cristina Lafont on democratic self-legislation1
World-building and the predicaments of our time1
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’1
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy1
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China1
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’1
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory1
The Lebensform as organism: Clarifying the limits of immanent critique1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory1
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity1
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science1
Communities and the individual: Beyond the liberal–communitarian divide1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy1
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass1
The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics1
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference1
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model1
Thinking about Brexit with Cristina Lafont1
How a critical Humean naturalism is possible: Contesting the Neo-Aristotelian reading1
Shame and the question of self-respect0
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique0
The brooding omnipresence of Carl Schmitt in contemporary jurisprudence: Reflections on William Scheuerman’s The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the 21st century0
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading0
Individual and community0
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism0
Illiberal polity as the retribution of post-imperial nation-building: The case of Turkey0
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics0
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter0
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one0
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community0
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness0
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method0
Liberalism and the problem of domination0
From agonistic to insurgent democracy0
The made and the made-up0
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen0
Nominalism, materialism, and history0
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig0
The theory of the public sphere as a cognitive theory of modern society0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change0
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom0
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples0
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions0
A tripartite model of federalism0
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy0
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique0
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19250
Bringing gender and religion in: Right-wing networks and “Populism and Civil Society”0
A militant defence of democracy in hard times0
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement0
Lottocracy and deliberative accountability0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’saesthetic theory0
Self-esteem and competition0
Schmittean logic0
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience0
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique0
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism0
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism0
Paradoxes of democracy: Rousseau and Hegel on democratic deliberation0
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument0
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen0
Book Review: Civil Disobedience0
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis0
Democracy without Shortcuts: Engaging with Lafont0
The heavy burden of democracy: Where is salvation? Democracy between perspective and prohibited0
Reply to Chamberlain0
Forced marriages and unintentional divorces: The national attitudes in Armenia and Uzbekistan towards the ‘Russian World’0
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity0
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam0
Under duress: Community and individual as solace and escape in the Middle East0
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”0
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure0
Eyes on the street: To what end?0
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race0
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates0
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective0
Truth queens and gallows humor0
Rescuing justice and stability0
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation0
Paternalism, respect and dialogue0
Meritocracy and resentment0
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?0
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political0
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy0
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar0
Marcuse’s critique of technology today0
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing0
Which Axial Age, whose rituals? Habermas and Jaspers on the ‘spiritual’ situation of the present age0
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts0
Freedom of expression as self-restraint0
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–19180
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy0
Book Review: Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics0
The Sine Qua Non of Carl Schmitt’s political thinking: The issue of interstate relations0
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view0
Power and normativity: Rainer Forst on noumenal power0
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought0
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique0
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception0
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?0
The substance of procedures0
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea0
Pandemic and human lifeworld: A manifest/hidden warfare0
Schmitt’s democratic dialectic: On the limits of democracy as a value0
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Privileging argument and the problem of ideology: Some ‘activist challenges’0
Symposium on William E. Scheuerman's The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century0
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies0
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Populism in power and its hybridizations0
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Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach0
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership0
Conclusion: The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history0
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt0
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access0
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect0
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments0
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction0
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India0
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets0
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx0
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today0
The populist critique of ‘Corrupted’ representative claim making0
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals0
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach0
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology0
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?0
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving0
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis0
The expertocratic shortcut0
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination0
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere0
Jesuit Kaddish and I0
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis0
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty0
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”0
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)0
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