Contemporary Political Theory

Article	Citations
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly	12
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century	11
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions	11
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation	10
“Just keep coming home”: fugitive truancy in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer	10
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat	10
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory	9
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital	7
A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation	6
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics	6
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem	6
Democracy and exclusion	6
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech	5
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution	5
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability	5
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran	5
Imagining democratic insurgency: enthusiasm, sublimity, and finitude	5
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach	5
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos	4
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)	4
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice	3
Anarchafeminism	3
Elites and democracy	3
Who needs a world view?	3
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries	3

Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy	3
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times	3
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition	3
Remapping Sovereignty: decolonization and self-determination in North American Indigenous political thought	2
The political theory of global supply chains	2
Ambedkar’s political philosophy: a grammar of public life from the social margins	2
Liberalism as a Way of Life	2
Hans Jonas and Sophocles on the ethics of the Anthropocene	2
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights	2
Postcolonial global justice	2
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses	2
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality	2
Rethinking political thinkers	2
The political theory of liberal socialism	1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene	1
Contemporary democratic theory	1
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory	1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom	1
Hybrid alienation: reproductive labour and emancipation in the anthropocene	1
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)	1
A feminist theory of refusal	1
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy	1
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists	1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology	1
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics	1
Protecting democracy in Europe: pluralism, autocracy and the future of the EU	1
Grand narratives in critical international theory	1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding	1
Screens and souls	1
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation	1
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation	0
We are free to change the world: Hannah Arendt’s lessons in love and disobedience	0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics	0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain	0
Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories	0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it	0
Contesting the far right: a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach	0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment	0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)	0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish	0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA	0
Left is not woke	0
The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation	0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society	0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions	0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action	0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance	0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century	0
Democratic elitism: the founding myth of American political science	0

‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation	0
What remains: the collected poems of Hannah Arendt	0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation	0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography	0
Communitarianism: politics, society and public policy	0
On critical genealogy	0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence	0
Senghor: writings on politics	0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation	0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics	0
Thinking democracy in a digital age	0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy	0
Theatre, Spectatorship, Politics	0
Breaking intersubjectivity: a critical theory of counter-revolutionary trauma in Egypt	0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought	0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought	0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times	0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice	0
New perspectives on Judith Shklar	0
Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: an exchange on subjection and emancipation	0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination	0
The dialectic of neoliberalism: postfascism and the antipolitics of trump	0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought	0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism	0
At the margins of the modern state	0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data	0
Constituent power in the European Union	0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)	0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history	0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization	0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue	0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture	0
The enabling value of group vulnerability	0
Visionary political theory	0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory	0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking	0
Normative reconstructions of property rights in German classical philosophy: recognition and pluralism	0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy	0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory	0
The anarchist before the law: law without authority	0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	0
Reframing restitution with Roberto Esposito and Achille Mbembe: restitutive justice struggles and the colonial ‘dispositif of a thing’	0
Equality: what it means and why it matters	0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals	0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating	0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy	0
Democracy despite itself: liberal constitutionalism and militant democracy	0
Acting as if: the utopian political thought and actions of the US disability rights movement	0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance	0
Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation	0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries	0
Conservatism	0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining	0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present	0
Solar politics	0
The future lost and how to reclaim it	0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict	0
Legalizing the revolution: India and the constitution of the postcolony	0
The life and thought of Alexandre Kojève	0
Legitimacy and the practice of judgment	0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences	0
Democracy Rules	0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics	0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory	0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory	0
The political aesthetics of cruelty: contemporary authoritarian politics and the struggle between sovereignty and relationality	0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought	0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”	0
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI	0
Thinking about democracy in turbulent times	0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age	0
Contested territory: a theory of land and democracy beyond sovereign bounds	0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas	0
Sweaty bodies: a feminist approach to socioenvironmental politics	0
Confucian comparative political philosophy	0
The power of political representation	0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa	0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating	0
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature	0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right	0

Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies	0
The meta-representative claim	0
Immigration and freedom	0
Feminist sexual futures	0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads	0
Misplaced ideas?: Political-intellectual history in Latin America	0
On Sympathies and the work of Public Things: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Challenge to Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian Statue and Settler Fantasy	0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition	0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage	0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles	0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times	0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx	0
Prison abolition	0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism	0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights	0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate	0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state	0
Settler colonialism and political theory	0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy	0
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration	0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness	0
Should we merely become editors? A democratic argument for promoting epistemic cooperation	0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit	0
Disembodiment: corporeal politics of radical refusal	0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe	0
Hegel’s world revolutions	0
Nancy Fraser and politics	0
Untangling the paradox of the antipolitical politician: populism, antipolitics, and the family	0
Freedom for All: what a liberal society could be	0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments	0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity	0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice	0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship	0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory	0
Judith Butler and Politics	0
Le Carré, democratic crisis, antisemitism: the political odyssey of The spy who came in from the cold	0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology	0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism	0
Subaltern silence: A postcolonial genealogy	0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft	0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power	0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability	0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics	0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand	0
Situating vulnerability: politics, law, and institutions	0
Decolonizing dignity	0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding	0
Free speech and social change: a public reason approach	0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good	0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics	0
Revolution and restoration: the politics of anachronism	0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence	0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world	0
Reconsidering reparations	0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight	0
The late Marx’s revolutionary roads: colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism	0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society	0
Conspiracy and power	0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship	0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction	0
Audacious claims and affirming negotiation: the deliberative potential of myth	0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)	0
In the shadow of minority rights: decolonising gender, liberalism and the politics of difference	0
Material conditions and human freedom	0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou	0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics	0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism	0
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School	0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice	0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice	0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy	0
Return to Ecotopia?	0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics	0
Politicizing political liberalism: on the containment of illiberal and antidemocratic views	0
Civic education in polarized times	0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy	0
The poverty of our freedom	0
Police abolition	0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt	0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics	0
The turn to the imagination: transformation, politics and limits	0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy	0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency	0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique	0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics	0
Non-living politics	0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies	0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution	0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles	0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right	0