Philosophy & Social Criticism

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism30
From shipwreck to commodity exchange: Robinson Crusoe, Hegel and Marx16
An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts15
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments14
Freedom of speech in liberal and non-liberal traditions12
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory12
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view12
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community8
Rescuing justice and stability7
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom7
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression6
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla6
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault6
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen5
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique?5
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?5
Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy5
‘Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history5
Marcuse’s critique of technology today5
Liberalism and the problem of domination5
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’4
The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy4
Paternalism, respect and dialogue4
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism4
Political authority and resistance to injustice: A Confucian perspective4
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come4
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction4
Annotations4
Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed3
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt3
From Horkheimer to Honneth and back again: A comment on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique3
Gendering Islamophobia at the crossroad of conflicting rights3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism3
Loneliness and radicalization3
Freedom of expression as self-restraint3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power3
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics3
Foucault and fugitive study3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge3
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure3
The aporetic humanism of early Derrida3
‘Be inclined to peace!’ An ethics of peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution in the Islamic milieu3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser3
Academic freedom: How to conceptualize and justify it?2
Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy2
Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique2
Faking news, hiding data: New assaults on freedom of speech in India2
Social criticism, dissonance, and progress: A socio-epistemic approach2
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy2
Epistemology of religion and phenomenology of revelation in post-revolutionary Iran: The case of Abdolkarim Soroush2
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality2
Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity2
The just price and the gains from exchange2
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres2
Without mandate: James Bernauer from the ethics of thought to historical memory2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass2
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao2
Against ‘institutional racism’2
Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience2
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’2
Book Review: Militant liberalism and democratic eclipse Review Essay (SchupmannBenjamin A., Democracy Despite Itself. Oxford: OUP. 2024)2
Mutual recognition across generations2
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis2
The discontents of competition for recognition on social media: Perfectionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism2
Social ontology in metaethics2
An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film2
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance2
Critical theory, immanent critique and neo-liberalism. Reply to critique raised in Copenhagen2
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture2
Book Review: Beyond the Public Sphere2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation1
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind1
Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?1
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials1
From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey1
The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality1
Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority1
The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt1
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy1
Reimagining reading with Chinese political ontology1
Freedom of speech: A relational defence1
Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”1
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)1
The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access1
Enemies of the right kind: Chantal Mouffe and Saul Alinsky on the theory and practice of agonism1
Constitution as recommendation1
A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity1
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China1
A living critique of domination: Exemplars of radical democracy from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo1
Banishing the poets: Reflections on free speech and literary censorship in Vietnam1
On the very idea of normative foundations in critical social theory1
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism1
On the Wrongness of Lies1
From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation1
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets1
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions1
History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity1
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech1
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism1
Introduction to special issue on book symposium Populism and civil society: The challenge to democratic constitutionalism (2022) by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen1
Polarization and enmity in the algorithmic age. Striving for a digital ethos of relationality and pluralism1
Oedipal fragments: Reconsidering the significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault1
The reasons of the unreasonable: Is political liberalism still an option?1
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault1
Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method1
Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument1
From resistance to transformation – The journey to develop a framework to explore the transformative potential of environmental resistance practices1
The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading1
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell1
Democracy’s ruling hand1
The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy1
Antagonism forever. On conservative left-wing philosophy in Mouffe, Žižek, and Kristeva1
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power1
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics1
Self-esteem and competition1
Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange1
Shame and the question of self-respect1
Kurdish liberty1
The neoliberal influence on South Africa’s early democracy and its shortfalls in addressing economic inequality1
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society1
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership1
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty1
The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’1
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China1
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics1
Book Review: A review of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico1
Threats to academic freedom: The French case1
The spirit of ethical life as syllogism1
Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument1
Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice1
Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one1
Lefort and Rancière on democracy and sovereignty1
Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth1
Confucian free expression and the threat of disinformation1
Neoliberalism, the entrepreneur and critique of political economy: A commentary on Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
All power to the imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis1
Caricaturing the prophet: Pushing the right to free speech too far?1
Machiavelli’s pendulum: Political action, time, and constitutional change1
Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–19251
The platformization of the public sphere and its challenge to democracy1
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue1
Freedom and dialectics: On the critical theory of Moishe Postone and Theodor Adorno1
In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy1
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help1
Criticizing critique. A discussion of Asger Sørensen’s Capitalism, Alienation and Critique1
Is it possible to form a rational identity? A critical reading of Habermas’ account of social identity1
Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms1
The “populist” foundation of liberal democracy: Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, and post-foundationalism1
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault1
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness1
The enemy within: Demagogy and ‘the marketplace of ideas’1
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