Philosophy & Social Criticism

Article	Citations
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”	21
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice	10
‘Cin ciun cian’ (ching chong): Yellowness and neo-orientalism in Italy at the time of COVID-19	10
Gentrification and the racialization of space	10
How much economic inequality is fair in liberal democracies? The approach of proportional justice	8
Towards a principle of most-deeply affected	6
The gentle way in governing: Foucault and the question of neoliberalism	6
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?	6
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality	6
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?	5
#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge	5
Democracy’s critical infrastructure: Rethinking intermediary powers	5
Expropriation of the expropriators	5
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation	5
The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication	5
The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement	5
The virtues of truth: On democracy’s epistemic value	5
At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations	4
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance	4
Carl Schmitt and the authoritarian subversion of democracy	4
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy	4
Political polarization: Radicalism and immune beliefs	4
Populism, localism and democratic citizenship	4
Freedom of speech: A relational defence	4
Feminist takes on post-truth	3

Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights	3
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism	3
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig	3
The problem of anthropocentrism and the human kind of personhood	3
Étienne Balibar on the dialectic of universal citizenship	3
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen	3
Beyond the political principle: Applying Martin Buber’s philosophy to societal polarization	3
Adorno and climate science denial: Lies that sound like truth	3
Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics	3
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	3
Constitution as recommendation	3
Has the owl flown with regard to ‘the constitutional theory of political liberalism’?	3
Nietzsche’s shadow: On the origin and development of the term nihilism	3
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory	3
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience	2
Of savages and Stoics: Converging moral and political ideals in the conjectural histories of Rousseau and Ferguson	2
World out of difference: Relations and consequences	2
From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy	2
Preserving spontaneous order: A normative reflection of community building in post-reform China	2
Beyond emergency politics: Carl Schmitt’s substantive constitutionalism	2
Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices	2
Beyond the entrepreneur society: Foucault, neoliberalism and the critical attitude	2
Black Lives Matter and the politics of redemption	2
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	2
Mapping the individual and the community in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.	2
Constitutional liberalism through thick and thin: Reflections on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	2
Critique and cognitive capacities: Towards an action-oriented model	2
Understanding the democratic promise of the city	2
Foucault and fugitive study	2
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	2
‘Lost in the marketplace of ideas: Towards a new constitution for free speech after Trump and Twitter?’	2
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	2
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	2
A militant defence of democracy: A few replies to my critics	2
Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy	2
Against ‘institutional racism’	2
‘Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law?	2
Where is the Breughel Village? Community and the radical tradition	2
Communities and the individual: Beyond the liberal–communitarian divide	2
Democratic deliberation and economic democracy	2
A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics	2
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	2
Homo homini tigris: Thomas Hobbes and the global images of sovereignty	2
The people and the voters	2
Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school	1
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline	1
Creation and renunciation in Ricoeur’s political ethics of compromise	1
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	1
Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacy	1

The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics	1
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory	1
Populism in power and its hybridizations	1
Liberalism, legal revolution and Carl Schmitt	1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation	1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis	1
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen	1
Freedom and domination through time: Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the plurality of temporalities	1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	1
Jean Améry and the time of resentment	1
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism	1
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science	1
Changing hearts and minds: Cristina Lafont on democratic self-legislation	1
Balancing the digital universe: Power and patterns in the new public sphere	1
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	1
Carl Schmitt in the 21st century: A response to critics	1
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations	1
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited	1
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	1
Public sphere and global governance	1
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model	1
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity	1
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness	1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	1
Legitimizing political power from below. A reinterpretation of the founding myths of Thebes, Athens, and Rome as a critique against private and public violence	1
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political	1
The fluidity of political legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy	1
The made and the made-up	1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno	1
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism	1
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	1
Truth-tracing versus truth-tracking: Lafont, Landemore and epistemic democracy	1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	1
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference	1
The politics of the invisible: Post-truth’s instrumental use of transparency and Arendt’s ‘nobody’	1
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice	1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method	1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	1
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique	1
Thinking about Brexit with Cristina Lafont	1
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited	1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	1
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	1
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”	1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	1
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change	1
Social ontology in metaethics	1
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	1
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?	1
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective	1
The constitution as a law of lawmaking: Comments on Frank Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Democracy’s ruling hand	1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction	1
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	1
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership	1
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy	1
Paradoxes of democracy: Rousseau and Hegel on democratic deliberation	1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices	1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading	1
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination	1
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie	1
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state	1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals	1
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	1
Self-esteem and competition	1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	1
A militant defence of democracy in hard times	1
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era	1
From agonistic to insurgent democracy	1
Against authenticity: Autonomy and oppressive circumstances	1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech	1
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis	1
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger	1
Book Review: Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics	0

The enduring significance of reciprocity	0
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity	0
Truth queens and gallows humor	0
Nominalism, materialism, and history	0
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy	0
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”	0
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange	0
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	0
Individual and community	0
The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx	0
Eyes on the street: To what end?	0
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam	0
Authoritarian leadership: Is democracy in peril?	0
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	0
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt	0
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique	0
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions	0
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	0
Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea	0
The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism	0
The monastic origins of discipline: From the rule to the norm?	0
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis	0
Shame and the question of self-respect	0
From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates	0
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique	0
‘To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race	0
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	0
Schmittean logic	0
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority	0
Freedom of expression as self-restraint	0
Democracy without Shortcuts: Engaging with Lafont	0
It’s funny because it’s true? Reflections on laughter, deception, and critique	0
Jesuit Kaddish and I	0
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?	0
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument	0
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change	0
Fact versus feeling: What post-truth scholarship can learn from the feminist phenomenology of affect	0
Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach	0
Our reply to critics by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	0
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one	0
Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience	0
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	0
The Sine Qua Non of Carl Schmitt’s political thinking: The issue of interstate relations	0
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	0
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought	0
Annotations	0
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts	0
History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory	0
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India	0
Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere	0
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	0
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	0
Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception	0
An epistemic alternative to the public justification requirement	0
Symposium on William E. Scheuerman's The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century	0
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	0
Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples	0
Pandemic and human lifeworld: A manifest/hidden warfare	0
The brooding omnipresence of Carl Schmitt in contemporary jurisprudence: Reflections on William Scheuerman’s The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the 21st century	0
Arendt, free will, and action	0
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	0
The expertocratic shortcut	0
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	0
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?	0
Response	0
Annotations	0
Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique	0
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	0
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	0
The shadow of the eco: Denial and climate change	0
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	0
Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–1918	0
Under duress: Community and individual as solace and escape in the Middle East	0
Rescuing justice and stability	0
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy	0
Cartoons go global: Provocation, condemnation and the possibility of laughter	0
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique	0
Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving	0
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth	0
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy	0
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation	0
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	0
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	0
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–1925	0
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	0
Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology	0
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)	0
Rancière reading Plato: Myth against sociology	0
Liberalism and the problem of domination	0
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology	0
The substance of procedures	0
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy	0
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	0
Freedom of speech in contemporary Arab societies from a gender perspective	0
Privileging argument and the problem of ideology: Some ‘activist challenges’	0