Philosophy & Social Criticism

Article	Citations
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	30
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	14
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts	13
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	12
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	12
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	11
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions	8
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	7
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	6
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	6
Rescuing justice and stability	6
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	5
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought	5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	5
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	5
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault	5
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	5
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?	5
Liberalism and the problem of domination	4
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	4
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective	4
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance	4
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy	4

On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	4
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy	4
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	4
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	4
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed	3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics	3
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique	3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power	3
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu	3
The aporetic humanism of early Derrida	3
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights	3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	3
Paternalism, respect and dialogue	3
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	3
Annotations	3
Foucault and fugitive study	3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	3
Freedom of expression as self-restraint	3
The just price and the gains from exchange	2
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere	2
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser	2
Mutual recognition across generations	2
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory	2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon	2
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism	2
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film	2
Against ‘institutional racism’	2
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)	2
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	2
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie	2
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar	2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	2
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience	2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	2
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy	2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres	2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush	2
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	2
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture	2
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen	2
Loneliness and radicalization	2
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno	2
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	2
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao	2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy	2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	2
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?	2

Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity	2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India	1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help	1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo	1
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy	1
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue	1
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–1925	1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	1
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power	1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen	1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam	1
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality	1
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation	1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’	1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism	1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?	1
Social ontology in metaethics	1
On the Wrongness of Lies	1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism	1
Constitution as recommendation	1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument	1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”	1
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms	1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices	1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind	1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory	1
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis	1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change	1
Self-esteem and competition	1
Antagonism forever. On conservative left-wing philosophy in Mouffe, Žižek, and Kristeva	1
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism	1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading	1
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality	1
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy	1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence	1
Shame and the question of self-respect	1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault	1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity	1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’	1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation	1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument	1
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty	1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	1
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism	1
Is it possible to form a rational identity? A critical reading of Habermas’ account of social identity	1
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	1
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation	1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?	1
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty	1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority	1
Oedipal fragments: Reconsidering the significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault	1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth	1
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	1
Democracy’s ruling hand	1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access	1
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique	1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology	1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)	1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?	1
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy	1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice	1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism	1
Kurdish liberty	1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China	1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno	1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership	1
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico	1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism	1
Threats to academic freedom: The French case	1

The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt	1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange	1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey	1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech	1
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one	1
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method	1
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism	0
Critical citizenship and democratic legitimacy	0
Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism	0
Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy	0
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger	0
‘A link in an intergenerational chain’: Sovereignty and justice in Ferrara’s sovereignty across generations	0
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy	0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective	0
Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination	0
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism	0
The text folds: Disappearing race/gender in South African visual art world discourse	0
Lost in translation: The normative and the historical	0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx	0
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea	0
‘The fewer the enemies, the more the enemies’: The enigma of absolute hostility	0
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy	0
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung” revisited: Distinguishing two paradigms of working through the past	0
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood	0
Response	0
Book Review: Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology and Dialectics	0
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis	0
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations	0
Power and normativity: Rainer Forst on noumenal power	0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	0
World out of difference: Relations and consequences	0
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited	0
Dreams of peace and realities of war. The friend-enemy polarization	0
Rancière reading Plato: Myth against sociology	0
Étienne Balibar on the dialectic of universal citizenship	0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?	0
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change	0
Constituent power in political liberalism: Constraining the future?	0
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	0
The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality	0
Imagined publics – On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective	0
Jean Améry and the time of resentment	0
Marcusean resources to think coloniality	0
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership	0
The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?	0
Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing	0
Reason to hope	0
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs	0
Radical labour republicanism: A defence	0
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination	0
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”	0
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	0
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception	0
Philosophy and the study of capitalism	0
The confusion about conversion: Competing narratives and nationalist violence in India	0
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter	0
Feminist takes on post-truth	0
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”	0
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience	0
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology	0
Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires	0
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy	0
When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behaviour	0
Jesuits and Jews, and the way we dare to think: A Jesuit’s reflections on James Bernauer’s Jesuit Kaddish	0
The subject, the worker, and the slave reification, capitalism, and the divestment of reason from freedom	0
When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics	0
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication	0
Setting struggle in motion: From ‘non-violence’ to revolutionary anti-violence	0
Social norms and social practices	0
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower	0
Beyond technocracy and political theology: John Dewey and the authority of truth	0
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era	0
Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny	0
Method and its other: Adorno’s challenge to phenomenology	0
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited	0
Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility	0
Hegel on war: From the Holy Roman Empire to the modern state and colonialism	0
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect	0
Polycrisis as collapse of the ‘universal and homogeneous state’	0
A tripartite model of federalism	0
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science	0
The public sphere and democracy in transformation: Continuing the debate – An introduction	0
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique	0
Three forms of philosophical theatre in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks	0
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig	0
Annotations	0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory	0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change	0
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory	0
Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem	0
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy	0
Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory	0
Book Review: The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism	0