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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Political Capability Approach to Corporate Power: A “Political” Political Theory of the Corporation	35
Rescuing justice and stability	26
Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments	15
‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla	12
Solidarity as a political resource: Keeping it real, feasible, and effective	10
Beyond Agamben’s bare life: Understanding acts of resistance in the camp with Levi and the late Foucault	10
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community	9
Marcuse’s critique of technology today	7
From Cultural Marxism to Critical Literacy: Rethinking Douglas Kellner’s Media Theory	7
Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression	6
What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role view	6
Reconsidering the ethics of cosmopolitan memory: In the name of difference and memories to-come	6
Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom	6
The critical dimension of Brandom’s normative pragmatism	6
Alexander von Humboldt on race: Beyond the Kantian frame	5
The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history	5
Liberalism and the problem of domination	5
Justification by constitution and tiered constitutional design?	5
Constitutional Essentials : Does it meet the realist critique?	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
On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism	4
Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment	4
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Extraterritorial Obligations	4
The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure	4

Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction	4
Populism and Empowerment	4
A Philosophical Sketch of Confucian Cosmopolitanism: The Liberal International Political Theory of New Confucianism	4
‘Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realism’	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
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
Against ‘institutional racism’	3
Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge	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
Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics	3
Can the “real world” please stand up? The struggle for normality as a claim to reality	3
Hegemonic listening and doing memory on right-wing violence: Negotiating German political culture in public spheres	3
Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance	3
Mutual recognition across generations	3
Sovereignty across generations: The problem of divisive pluralism dismissed	3
Succeeding the Mandate of Heaven: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Early Joseon Korea	3
How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno	3
Not everyone can be a winner, baby: A pragmatist response to problems of contemporary ‘crisis studies’	3
Populism’s challenges to political reason: Reconfiguring the public sphere in an emotional culture	3
Nihilistic Authoritarianism: Power as an End-in-Itself	3
The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Psychopower, Attention, and the Crisis of the Public Sphere	3
‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics	3
Loneliness and radicalization	3
Political liberalism, dualist democracy and the call to constituent power	3
Drucilla Cornell’s Revolutionary Thinking	3
Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism	3
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser	3
The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy	3
(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault	2
Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action	2
Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China	2
Embedded agency: A critique of negative liberty and free markets	2
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics	2
For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness	2
Social ontology in metaethics	2
Not just a liberal – Social philosophy as antiauthoritarian and utopian social criticism: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country today	2
Exploitation and Unjust Structures: Towards an Account of Systemic Exploitation	2
Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism	2
Three theories of separation: Kelsen, Schmitt and Pashukanis and the historical development of the legal form	2
Self-esteem and competition	2
The Eccentric Commodity: Why Only Labor-Power Produces Value	2
False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power	2
Critical problems and pragmatist solutions	2
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation	2
Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism? Some considerations following Richard Rorty	2
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society	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
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao	2
Dismantling the ‘liturgy of inwardness’: Adorno and Guattari on jargon	2
Book Review: The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of praxis	2
Shame and the question of self-respect	2
What Incentive Structures Do to Political Philosophy: Epistemic Pathologies and Institutional Design	2
Adorno and negative dialectics: The case of feminist religious agency	2
Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism	2
What Is Factionalism?	2
A mediocre ruler must rule: Han Fei on rulership	2
Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy	2
The global market and the war: Origins, development, and effectiveness of marginalist irenicism	2
Arendt on earth	2
Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass	2
Against received opinion : Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy	2
Tired of trying to belong: On affective justice and fatigue	2
Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	2
Legacies of dignity: Remembering Drucilla Cornell	2
The Political Lives of Pain	2