OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy & Social Criticism is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“Political disobedience and the climate emergency”	21
‘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
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice	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
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
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
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
At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations	4
Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance	4
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
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
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
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
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
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	1
Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political	1
Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracy	1
The fluidity of political legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno	1

The made and the made-up	1
Truth-tracing versus truth-tracking: Lafont, Landemore and epistemic democracy	1
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism	1
The politics of the invisible: Post-truth’s instrumental use of transparency and Arendt’s ‘nobody’	1
Understanding and evaluating populist strategy	1
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice	1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method	1
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference	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
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach	1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	1
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited	1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	1
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China	1
A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change	1
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	1
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	1
Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?	1
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”	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
Social ontology in metaethics	1
Democracy’s ruling hand	1
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	1
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction	1
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	1
How can consciousness be false? Alienation, simulation, and mental ownership	1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices	1
Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy	1
What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie	1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading	1
Paradoxes of democracy: Rousseau and Hegel on democratic deliberation	1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials	1
Kant, Realism, and the Theory of Ideals	1
Adorno, Marx, and abstract domination	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
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	1
Indigenous patrimonialization as an operation of the liberal state	1
Against authenticity: Autonomy and oppressive circumstances	1
Calling the news fake: The underlying claims about truth in the post-truth era	1
The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger	1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech	1
Self-esteem and competition	1
Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school	1
From agonistic to insurgent democracy	1
Aecsthetic transformative experience. A pragmatist outline	1
Creation and renunciation in Ricoeur’s political ethics of compromise	1
Searching for the fourfold in critical discourse analysis	1
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	1
Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacy	1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	1
The Genius of Feminism: Cavellian Moral Perfectionism and Feminist Political Theory	1
The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics	1
Liberalism, legal revolution and Carl Schmitt	1
Populism in power and its hybridizations	1
Critical theory and the future of humanity: A reply to Asger Sørensen	1
Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation	1
Jean Améry and the time of resentment	1
Freedom and domination through time: Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the plurality of temporalities	1
Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power as praxis	1
Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science	1
Changing hearts and minds: Cristina Lafont on democratic self-legislation	1
Comedy as dissonant rhetoric	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
Balancing the digital universe: Power and patterns in the new public sphere	1
Emerson’s abolitionist perfectionism	1
Public sphere and global governance	1
“A False Classless Society”: Adorno’s social theory revisited	1
Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model	1
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity	1
Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness	1
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx	1
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	1