European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reflexive anthropology: On the method-guided construction of premises in social theory32
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis19
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects18
For a translational sociology: Illuminating translation in society, theory and research17
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration14
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival14
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict14
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking13
Postscript: On the moral case for solidarity with Ukraine: A reply12
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument12
Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene?11
Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought10
Book Review: Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary Jaworski10
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique7
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism7
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler7
Book review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East7
Book review: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment6
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society6
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right6
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history6
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity6
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms5
Decolonizing deliberative democracy5
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society5
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene5
Articulate the missing: The role of religion in political modernity5
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence5
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility4
Explanations and excuses in French sociology4
Poverty as capability deprivation: Considering the relational approach, group-based analysis, and socio-structural lens4
The moral fog of war and historical sociology4
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures4
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine by Hans-Herbert Kögler4
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective4
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?4
Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation3
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)3
Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation3
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism3
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity3
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice3
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume3
International morality and international law2
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’2
Habermas on people-building in the European Union2
Special Section Institutionalized Anti-Anti-Semitism in Germany2
Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society2
Book review: The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960–19902
Activated. Towards a sociology of reaction2
Winch’s Idea at sixty-five: Its point and implications for the prospects of sociology2
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler2
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)2
Book review2
Death and the form of life2
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age2
History, sociology and the study of empires: Reflections of a historical sociologist2
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization2
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress2
Afterword: Thinking futures2
Book Review: Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture2
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–20202
Reformulating emancipation in the Anthropocene: From didactic apocalypse to planetary subjectivities1
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited1
Polanyi’s discovery of society and the digital phase of the industrial revolution1
A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration1
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory1
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes1
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective1
Thinking beyond the ecological present: Critical theory on the self-problematization of society and its transformation1
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory1
Capitalism and alienation: Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century1
The philosopher as engaged citizen: Habermas on the role of the public intellectual in the modern democratic public sphere1
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans1
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day1
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity1
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War1
Wolfgang Streeck on consumption, depoliticisation and neoliberal capitalism1
Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriously0
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope0
Adventures in the anti-humanist dialectic: Towards the reappropriation of humanism0
Emancipatory struggles and their political organisation: How political parties and social movements respond to changing notions of emancipation0
Meta-economics, scale and contemporary social theory: Re-reading E. F. Schumacher’sSmall is Beautiful0
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere0
Book review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch0
Putin’s Russia: A commentary on Professor Kögler’s perspective0
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)0
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles0
Book review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire0
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War0
Book review: Technopopulism: The new logic of democratic politics0
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses0
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus0
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies0
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation0
Future-cultures: How future imaginations disseminate throughout the social0
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain0
Domination through precarization: From Butler’s humanitarian ethics to Marx’s political economy0
Book review: Populism in the Civil Sphere0
Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs0
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination0
Foucauldian perspectives on migration and society: The epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population”0
Iconoclastic critics? Understanding the ‘just like a religion’ critique0
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times0
Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future0
Book Review: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)0
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective0
Techno-feudalism or platform capitalism? Conceptualising the digital society0
No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism0
Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory0
Book Review: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse0
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”0
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine0
Schumacher against globalism and ecomodernism: Ecology, subsidiarity and the politics of scale0
When did biopolitics begin? Actuality and potentiality in historical events0
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality0
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser0
Book review: The Making of Meaning: From the Individual to Social Order, Selections from Niklas Luhmann’s Works on Semantics and Social Structure0
Performativity: Model and meaning in a post-Austinian frame0
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”0
Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading0
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld0
Social science as apologia0
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty0
The governance of possible futures and the regime of modern historicity: Critical theory and the modality of possibility0
Reflections on ecological social theory marking 50 years of E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful0
Dependency denial in crisis: Revisiting feminist critiques of dualism0
Between temporalities, imaginaries and imagination: A framework for analysing futures0
A sociology of regret0
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism0
Liberation and limitation: Emancipatory politics, socio-ecological transformation and the grammar of the autocratic-authoritarian turn0
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society0
Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics0
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth0
Book review: Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology0
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter0
Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World0
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future0
Postcolonialism as the governmentality of immigration controls0
Black Marxism, Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective0
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Habermas and the public sphere: Rethinking a key theoretical concept0
Mind the gap(s): Moral philosophy, international law and interpretative historical sociology0
Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away0
An interview with Andrew Arato: Critically revisiting civil society, constituent power and constitutional democracy in populist times0
Gramsci, social theory and migration0
Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction0
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Democratic socialism or barbarism: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
The rise and fall of social movements: A tribute to Alain Touraine (1925–2023)0
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity0
On the colonization of the environment0
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine0
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay0
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith0
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology0
A different kind of emancipation? From lifestyle to form-of-life0
Property, credit, and monetary sabotage: Contemporary capitalism in institutionalist perspective0
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism0
Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences0
Erratum to ‘In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right’0
Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds0
Book review: Bauman: A Biography0
No (sociological) excuses for not going green: How do environmental activists make sense of social inequalities and relate to the working class?0
The anti-authoritarian revolt: Right-wing populism as self-empowerment?0
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias0
Too many aporias? A commentary on Heidrun Friese's essay on institutionalized anti-antisemitism0
Book review: The enlightenment and violence0
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