OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy & Social Criticism is 2. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A Political Capability Approach to Corporate Power: A “Political” Political Theory of the Corporation	34
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	25
Rescuing justice and stability	15
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	12
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	10
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault	9
Solidarity as a political resource: Keeping it real, feasible, and effective	9
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	7
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	7
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	6
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	6
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	6
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	6
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	5
Constitutional Essentials : Does it meet the realist critique?	5
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	5
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy	5
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen	5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	5
Liberalism and the problem of domination	5
Alexander von Humboldt on race: Beyond the Kantian frame	4
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	4
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	4
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Extraterritorial Obligations	4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	4

The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	4
Populism and Empowerment	4
A Philosophical Sketch of Confucian Cosmopolitanism: The Liberal International Political Theory of New Confucianism	4
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	4
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt	4
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu	4
Annotations	4
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	3
Mutual recognition across generations	3
Against ‘institutional racism’	3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	3
Succeeding the Mandate of Heaven: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Early Joseon Korea	3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics	3
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity	3
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)	3
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed	3
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar	3
Caritas and hopelessness in Hannah Arendt’s and Simone Weil’s interpretations of Saint Augustine	3
Drucilla Cornell’s Revolutionary Thinking	3
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture	3
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	3
The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Psychopower, Attention, and the Crisis of the Public Sphere	3
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power	3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser	3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno	3
Loneliness and radicalization	3
Social ontology in metaethics	2
Adorno and negative dialectics: The case of feminist religious agency	2
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China	2
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	2
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty	2
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism	2
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind	2
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique	2
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao	2
Arendt on earth	2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres	2
Self-esteem and competition	2
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue	2
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership	2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation	2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	2
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	2
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	2
Shame and the question of self-respect	2

The Political Lives of Pain	2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon	2
What Incentive Structures Do to Political Philosophy: Epistemic Pathologies and Institutional Design	2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	2
The Eccentric Commodity: Why Only Labor-Power Produces Value	2
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	2
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	2
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power	2
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism	2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	2
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	2
Against received opinion : Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy	2
Exploitation and Unjust Structures: Towards an Account of Systemic Exploitation	2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy	2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	2