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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration25
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis23
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency . By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 3522
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes16
The moral fog of war and historical sociology15
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures15
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?15
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism13
Marx's three modes of class analysis: A critical reconstruction13
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism13
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms12
A sociology of regret12
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future11
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias10
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason10
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 Over9
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation9
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation9
Extra/Ordinary moments: Utopia, everyday life and the method of transduction8
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War8
“Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure8
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine8
Forever failing: Feminist practices of peace in war/violence7
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, 2024.6
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history6
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay6
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society6
Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming6
Carbon societies’ past, present and future: History, crisis and social transformation6
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses6
Shaping ‘Grand Theories’ Through Their Edition—The Case of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA)6
Collectivising resonance through ritual: The case of ecological emotions6
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism5
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth5
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project5
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith5
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War5
Revolutionary failure and utopia: William Morris and the Paris Commune5
A Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)5
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.5
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain5
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)5
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope4
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences4
Book review: The experience of mutual traumatization BrunnerJNachbarnB, Wie Emotionen den Nahostkonflikt antreiben - und entschärfen können (Brutal Neighbours: How Emotions Drive – and Can Defuse – th4
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity4
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective4
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere4
Book Review: Magical Nominalism – The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment & the Photograph by Martin Jay JayMartin (2025). Magical Nominalism –4
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus4
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project4
Planetary emergency, fossil-authoritarian hope and the dilemma of social theory: An introduction3
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism3
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)3
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality3
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations3
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene3
Decolonizing deliberative democracy3
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler3
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination3
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right3
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society3
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress3
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies3
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’2
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective2
The Becomings of Capitalism and Liberal Democracy: A Materialist, Micropolitical Contribution to Political Sociology2
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility2
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence2
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity2
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume2
Aesthetic Machines and the Production of Subjectivity: A postanthropocentric sociology of the aesthetic2
Collapse as a Way of Life: Climate Change, Deep Adaptation, and the Future's Dénouement2
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective2
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty1
Dying myths of neoliberalism: Reflections on socialisation in the age of precarity1
Interrogating the Interregnum1
Hyper-functional social integration: On terminal alienation and estrangement in the works of Adorno1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited1
Postscript: On the moral case for solidarity with Ukraine: A reply1
Convergent futures: Time mastering in accelerating and decelerating temporalities1
Book Review: Brutalism by Achille Mbembe MbembeAchille, 2024. Brutalism. Translated by Steven Corcoran. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, pp.1
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking1
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty1
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”1
Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society1
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day1
No end in sight: Reflections on recent literature on the destruction of Gaza FassinDidier, 2024: Moral Abdication. How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza 1
Book Review: Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires AncaParvulescu and ManuelaBoatcă. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires . It1
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory1
The first “Unmodern” Nation: Germany and Poland's imperial exclusion from modernity1
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict1
Book Review: Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture1
Book Review: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment TaylorCharles, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres1
Rethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response 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
Infinite regress: The dialectic of narcissism in new authoritarianism1
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter1
Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene?1
The politics of methodological reality practices of everyday life1
Book Review: Post-Liberalism by Sleat, M. SleatM. (2026). Post-Liberalism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 226 pp. £15.99 (pbk). ISBN 13: 978-1-5059-6220-6.1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society1
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism1
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”1
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