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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy26
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism12
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–192510
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism9
Self-esteem and competition6
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory6
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom6
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics6
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig6
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?6
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India6
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts5
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism5
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power5
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach5
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today5
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China4
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange4
Rescuing justice and stability4
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions4
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view4
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism4
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar4
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression3
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)3
Social ontology in metaethics3
Pandemic and human lifeworld: A manifest/hidden warfare3
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla3
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”3
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique3
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience3
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice3
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument3
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx3
Marcuse’s critique of technology today3
Nominalism, materialism, and history3
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect2
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt2
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood2
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx2
From agonistic to insurgent democracy2
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology2
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere2
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism2
Annotations2
Paradoxes of democracy: Rousseau and Hegel on democratic deliberation2
How much economic inequality is fair in liberal democracies? The approach of proportional justice2
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement2
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism2
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation2
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community2
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique2
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory2
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis2
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs2
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory2
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric2
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism2
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action2
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form2
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach2
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique2
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates2
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state2
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism2
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals2
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment2
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’2
Individual and community1
Constituent power and democracy ‘across generations’: A reply1
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations1
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”1
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen1
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty1
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come1
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy1
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction1
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–19181
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy1
Shame and the question of self-respect1
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption1
Under duress: Community and individual as solace and escape in the Middle East1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples1
Response1
A semblance of freedom: Horkheimer and Adorno’s conception of myth1
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter1
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure1
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea1
Forced marriages and unintentional divorces: The national attitudes in Armenia and Uzbekistan towards the ‘Russian World’1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy1
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics1
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?1
Power and normativity: Rainer Forst on noumenal power1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation1
Book Review: Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
Truth queens and gallows humor1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value1
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception1
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing1
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change1
The populist critique of ‘Corrupted’ representative claim making1
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?1
Annotations1
The enduring significance of reciprocity1
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving1
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen1
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance1
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history1
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society1
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology1
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude1
Liberalism and the problem of domination1
Jesuit Kaddish and I1
Populism in power and its hybridizations1
Eyes on the street: To what end?1
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought1
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique1
Rancière reading Plato: Myth against sociology1
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one1
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy1
Reason to hope1
Arendt, free will, and action1
Democracy’s ruling hand1
Legitimizing political power from below. A reinterpretation of the founding myths of Thebes, Athens, and Rome as a critique against private and public violence0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility0
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model0
Political friendship, respect, community: Hannah Arendt’s de-materialization of Aristotelian political friendship0
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno0
Thus spoke the student from Bologna: On behalf of the blush and confusion0
Public and private interests in Han Fei: A statist approach0
Constitution as recommendation0
MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements0
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy0
The historical and the transhistorical in Marx’s dialectical method0
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film0
The inverted world and fetishism in Benjamin’s dialectics0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory0
The concept of publicness in Kant’s critical method of metaphysics0
Hervé Guibert as Foucault might have imagined him0
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory0
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism0
The ‘mystical’ foundation of democratic society, mythmaking and truth in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford 1962)0
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism0
The just price and the gains from exchange0
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres0
Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school0
Marcusean resources to think coloniality0
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem0
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico0
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour0
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change0
Mapping the individual and the community in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires0
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination0
World-building and the predicaments of our time0
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy0
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere0
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism0
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush0
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy0
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?0
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?0
Mutual recognition across generations0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
Getting the duty to resist right: Remarks on Candice Delmas’s book a duty to resist: When disobedience should be uncivil0
A Game of Jacks: Review Essay of John D. Caputo's Recent Works0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences0
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity0
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited0
The politics of the invisible: Post-truth’s instrumental use of transparency and Arendt’s ‘nobody’0
Language lost, language regained: Adorno’s Proustian reflections on childhood, exile and experience0
The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality0
Poetry and democratic education0
A full ideology as driver for authoritarian dynamics: Comment to Populism and Civil Society0
The symbolic work of political discourse. Populist reason and its foundational myth0
Public reason under the tree: Rawls and the African palaver0
How to feminist affect: Feminist comedy and post-truth politics0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy0
Of savages and Stoics: Converging moral and political ideals in the conjectural histories of Rousseau and Ferguson0
The constitution as a law of lawmaking: Comments on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
On the square0
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty0
Defending rights. Between parliaments and courts0
Balancing the digital universe: Power and patterns in the new public sphere0
Demobilized democracy: Plebiscitarianism as political theology0
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy0
Understanding the democratic promise of the city0
Book Review: A glitch in the matrix: The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment0
Populism, localism and democratic citizenship0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited0
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument0
Social norms and social practices0
On the Wrongness of Lies0
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication0
Oedipal fragments: Reconsidering the significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics0
Reflexive Biopolitics and the Structure of Experimental Knowledge0
Against ‘institutional racism’0
Inter-independence, dialogue, sustainability after globalization0
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’0
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech0
Feminist takes on post-truth0
Derrida's Wheel – The Circularity of Political (R)Evolutions0
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’0
How to do things with “the Fact of Reason”: A new interpretation of a well-known concept in Kant’s philosophy0
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness0
From right to might, and back: Functional legitimacy as a realist value0
“For whom the bell tolls”? A ‘vulnerability-responsibility’ model based on democratic and ‘dignified’ transactions”0
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao0
Book Review: The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism0
Annotations0
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie0
Praxis as the unfolding of poiesis: Renewing the normativity of labor for critical theory0
From liberal to multiculturalist nationalism: Confronting autocratic nationalism0
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy0
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials0
The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?0
Dancing in the streets: Rousseau, the genealogy of vice, and the practice of freedom0
When political liberalism meets a communalist worldview: John Rawls and African view of human rights0
Democratic freedom as an aesthetic achievement: Peirce, Schiller and Cavell on aesthetic experience, play and democratic freedom0
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