Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Political 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon67
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures26
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible23
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt15
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition11
Development as rebellion: A biography of Julius Nyerere6
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology5
The work of politics: Making a democratic welfare state5
The claims of experience: autobiography and American democracy4
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity4
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat4
Walter Benjamin’s antifascist education: from riddles to radio3
A philosopher’s economist: Hume and the rise of capitalism3
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence3
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice3
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists3
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy2
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique2
Police abolition2
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation2
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation2
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century2
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics2
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state2
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)2
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene2
Immigration and freedom2
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx2
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics2
Constituent power in the European Union1
Democracy Rules1
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy1
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem1
The enabling value of group vulnerability1
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory1
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics1
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory1
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory1
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation1
Systemic corruption: Constitutional ideas for an anti-oligarchic republic1
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom1
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative1
Screens and souls1
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly1
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration1
The Epistemic Value of Testimony1
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating1
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism1
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa1
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall1
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism1
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view1
The dangerous class: The concept of the lumpenproletariat1
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20201
The politics of care1
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
Acting as if: the utopian political thought and actions of the US disability rights movement0
Anarchism mainstreamed? On recent trends, challenges and opportunities in anarchist scholarship0
Politics in the Time of COVID0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
The politics of twenty-first century socialism0
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
The problem of value pluralism. Isaiah Berlin and beyond0
Fear of breakdown: Politics and psychoanalysis0
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
Restitution and the politics of repair: Tropes, imaginaries, theories0
The (anti)-democratic spirit of populism0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Political parties and republican democracy0
Who needs a world view?0
Modernity’s exclusions0
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights0
Carl Schmitt’s early legal-theoretical writings: Statute and judgment and the value of the state and the significance of the individual0
Critique on the couch: Why Critical Theory needs psychoanalysis0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies0
The persistence of myth: Brazil’s undead ‘racial democracy’0
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
Disability and political theory0
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability0
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
A feminist theory of refusal0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Constituent power and its institutions0
From missed opportunities to future possibilities: Towards an improper politics0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
Liberalism as a Way of Life0
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality0
The politics of repair0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
Insurgent truth. Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
Deliberative Democracy0
Left is not woke0
The green case for a randomly selected chamber0
The model of the legislator: Political theory, policy, and realist utopianism0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals0
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization0
Environmental political theory0
Kant’s nonideal theory of politics0
The universal enemy: Jihad, empire, and the challenge of solidarity0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements0
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Intimate terrains of black possibility0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics0
Reconsidering reparations0
Correction to: Constituent assemblies0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
Politics as ‘Sinister Wisdom’: Reparation and responsibility in lesbian feminism0
Routledge handbook of psychoanalytic political theory0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice0
The power of political representation0
Return to Ecotopia?0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Violence and Revolutionary Change0
Feminist sexual futures0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
The political theory of global supply chains0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Regaining control over precarity0
Against instinctual reason: Alain Badiou on the disinterested interest of truth procedures in the post-truth era0
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies0
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration0
Towards an improper politics0
Political theology of international order0
Contemporary democratic theory0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
Migrants in the profane0
Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence0
Languages of transnational revolution: The ‘Republicans of Nacogdoches’ and ideological code-switching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands0
Conservatism0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
Bataille’s anti-fascism0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
Rawls’s egalitarianism0
The Oxford handbook of global justice0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
Care ethics, democratic citizenship and the state0
Breaking intersubjectivity: a critical theory of counter-revolutionary trauma in Egypt0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
Anarchafeminism0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation0
A false tree of liberty: Human rights in radical thought0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Visionary political theory0
The space of disappearance: A narrative commons in the ruins of Argentine state terror0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
Democracy and exclusion0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme0
Material conditions and human freedom0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
On critical genealogy0
Comparative political theory, indigenous resurgence, and epistemic justice: From deparochialization to treaty0
Backward-looking reparations and structural injustice0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Judith Butler and Politics0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Non-living politics0
Beyond ‘contemporary relevance’: Reading critical theory today0
The poverty of our freedom0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
The art of parasitical resistance0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Grand narratives in critical international theory0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage0
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses0
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture0
The right to sex0
Critique of rights0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice0
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