European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects21
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency. By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 352 pp. $139.99 US (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-031-7521
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis21
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration16
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?13
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism11
Book review9
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes8
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures8
The moral fog of war and historical sociology7
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism7
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice7
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans6
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms6
A sociology of regret6
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective5
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future5
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias5
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation5
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation5
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason5
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War4
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay4
Book Review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East ZayaniMohamedKhalilJoe, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.4
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–20204
Book Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire GeorgeSteinmetz. 2022. The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Over4
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity4
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)4
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age4
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine4
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses4
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society4
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization4
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history4
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith3
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project3
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere3
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective3
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity3
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth3
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus3
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.3
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain3
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War3
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope3
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society2
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism2
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity2
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination2
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms2
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)2
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies2
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project2
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations2
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene2
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right2
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences2
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality2
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day1
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume1
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence1
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility1
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter1
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty1
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”1
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”1
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)1
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective1
Decolonizing deliberative democracy1
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective1
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity1
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism1
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory1
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress1
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society1
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation Werner Bonefeld. A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation 1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Book review: Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires by Anca, Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă AncaParvulescuManuelaBoatcă. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania A1
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept1
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