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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions87
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly42
The Epistemic Value of Testimony11
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat11
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation6
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century5
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme4
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible4
Modernity’s exclusions4
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory4
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital4
The politics of care4
Bataille’s anti-fascism3
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem3
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech3
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran3
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics3
Correction to: The Epistemic Value of Testimony3
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach3
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement3
Democracy and exclusion3
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution3
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)3
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism2
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability2
Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy2
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality2
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses2
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times2
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice2
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition2
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos2
Who needs a world view?2
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution1
Anarchafeminism1
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality1
Screens and souls1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
The political theory of global supply chains1
Fear of breakdown: Politics and psychoanalysis1
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights1
A philosopher’s economist: Hume and the rise of capitalism1
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation1
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics1
Liberalism as a Way of Life1
Rethinking political thinkers1
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries1
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene1
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view1
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment0
Police abolition0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship0
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Non-living politics0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power0
Judith Butler and Politics0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
Visionary political theory0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness0
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
The politics of repair0
Decolonizing dignity0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship0
Disability and political theory0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice0
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Correction to: Constituent assemblies0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon0
Return to Ecotopia?0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
Conservatism0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Revisiting Marx’s critique of liberalism: Rethinking justice, legality and rights0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20200
Feminist approaches to environmental politics0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics0
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society0
Grand narratives in critical international theory0
Political parties and republican democracy0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation0
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
A false tree of liberty: Human rights in radical thought0
Constituent power in the European Union0
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism0
Misplaced ideas?: Political-intellectual history in Latin America0
Contemporary democratic theory0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
The poverty of our freedom0
Walter Benjamin’s antifascist education: from riddles to radio0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
The right to sex0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject0
Equality: what it means and why it matters0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
Democracy Rules0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
Deliberative Democracy0
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation0
The problem of value pluralism. Isaiah Berlin and beyond0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
Migrants in the profane0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
Immigration and freedom0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
The green case for a randomly selected chamber0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
The claims of experience: autobiography and American democracy0
The enabling value of group vulnerability0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
Untangling the paradox of the antipolitical politician: populism, antipolitics, and the family0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
The power of political representation0
Intimate terrains of black possibility0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
Hegel’s world revolutions0
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics0
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics0
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
On critical genealogy0
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization0
Solar politics0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
Contesting the far right: a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Conspiracy and power0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice0
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School0
Regaining control over precarity0
Reconsidering reparations0
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt0
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
Left is not woke0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good0
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity0
Politics in the Time of COVID0
Restitution and the politics of repair: Tropes, imaginaries, theories0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
A feminist theory of refusal0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas0
Breaking intersubjectivity: a critical theory of counter-revolutionary trauma in Egypt0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right0
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
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