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Authors:Iaan Reynolds6234Utah Valley University; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper reads Adorno’s engagement with Husserlian phenomenology as a resource for recent discussions on phenomenology and social critique. Transcendental phenomenology’s inability to develop an adequate account of society, according to Adorno, comes ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-06-14T10:46:47Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251349112
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Authors:Ali Teymoori1658University of Bergen; Norway9373Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, , Amin MatajiIndependent scholar Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Habermas’ account of social identity is the most sophisticated among various deliberative and expansive democratic models and aligns with his long-standing theoretical commitment to communicative rationality that is tailored to the democratic organization ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-06-13T10:56:49Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251348412
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Authors:Timo Jütten2591University of Essex; UK Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The moral status of the modern market economy is contested amongst philosophers and social theorists. Some argue that it is a moral order; others argue that it is not a moral order. In Frankfurt School critical theory, the former argument is defended by ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-06-12T11:24:41Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251349123
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Authors:Nicole Grimaldi5894New York University; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This condensed study interfaces Theodor W. Adorno’s scathing analysis of linguistic jargon as mounted in his critique of existentialism (in theJargon of Authenticityin particular) with Félix Guattari’s view that creating the conditions for a ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-06-04T11:19:40Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251336735
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Authors:Benjamin A. Schupmann391794Yale-NUS College; Singapore Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Democracy’s enemies do not sit idle – so why should its defences' WithDemocracy despite Itself, I aim to revive ‘militant democracy’, the idea that a democratic state should adopt strong mechanisms of constitutional entrenchment to defend itself against ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-05-13T11:22:42Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251340425
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Authors:Peter NiesenDepartment of Social Sciences; University of Hamburg, Germany Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-05-06T08:43:13Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251340423
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Authors:Qian Chen2462The University of Chicago; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Byung-Chul Han claims that neoliberal society lacks the Other, presenting a new societal and subjective paradigm. He argues that the demise of the Other presents social critical theorists with an urgent task: finding an appropriate theory to describe and ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-30T04:14:55Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537241308121
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Authors:Chielo Eze6092Carleton College; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In ‘The Uses of the Blues’, James Baldwin writes that the blues is a source of healing and creative energy; it has been the ultimate symbol of black people’s will to survive and thrive. The blues is an expression of self-love, one’s doggedness not to ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-23T10:49:35Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251336737
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Authors:Kaja Jenssen Rathe8016UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Norway Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this article, I offer a critical phenomenological exploration of the affective dimension of the experience of indebtedness that many people racially construed as ‘immigrants’ describe being faced with. I have done so, more specifically, by turning the ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-22T06:33:07Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334948
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Authors:Tia Trafford121205University for the Creative Arts; UK Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article traces a line of thought through a reading of Lukács to suggest that the promise of Enlightenment modernity to emancipate thought from extrahuman authority is an impossibility because the problem of sovereignty returns in the form of the ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-21T11:36:08Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251336727
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Authors:Max Foley-Keene6752Brown University; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this paper, I work toward a theory of eco-virtue for a radical environmental politics by enlisting the work of socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Luxemburg’s “socialist civic virtues” highlight the place of virtue in anti-capitalist politics, ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-20T02:38:26Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334842
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Authors:Valerian Thielicke-Witt9187University of Rostock; Germany Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The paper presents a critique of the logical foundations in mainstream democratic theory, with a particular focus on the so-called Logic of Identity, as originally articulated by G.W.F. Hegel in Western philosophical discourse. Firstly, the paper presents ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-19T03:18:24Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334549
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Authors:Samuel Lindholm4168University of Jyväskylä; Finland Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim that Botero’s ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-17T11:49:59Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251324164
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Authors:Sarah BianchiGoethe-University Frankfurt; Germany Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article considers the neo-Kantian republican account of (non-)dominating fear (1) to diagnose the fear-based legitimation narratives of today’s right-wing populist East German movementPegida(‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West’... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-17T11:42:09Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334546
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Authors:Matteo J. Stettler9296Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna; Italy Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Recent scholarship has repeatedly highlighted a significant flaw in Giorgio Agamben’sRemnants of Auschwitz: its inability to account for acts of resistance in the Lager, or its aprioristic closure to the very possibility of such acts. As a result, ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-17T08:04:08Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334957
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Authors:Sanna Karoliina Tirkkonen3835University of Helsinki; Finland, , Ruth Rebecca Tietjen7899Tilburg University, Netherlands Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article investigates experiences of loneliness in radicalization processes. The main aim is to develop an empirically grounded theory of loneliness in contemporary forms of radicalization. Starting from Hannah Arendt’s political theory, which posits ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-17T05:34:36Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334550
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Authors:Keith Breen170904Queen’s University Belfast; Northern Ireland, UK Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. ‘Labour republicanism’ harnesses the ideal of freedom as nondomination to explain and challenge the injustices marring current workplace relations. Central to its challenge is a call for institutionalizing worker voice, with some also calling for ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-15T04:30:25Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251331135
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Authors:Jiho Oh26725Seoul National University; South Korea Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper critically examines Hegel’s thoughts on war and international relations by situating them within the historical context of his time. Focussing on his understanding of post-Westphalian German history, I argue that his theory of the sovereign ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-04-02T12:29:49Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251321571
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Authors:Anders Bartonek7671Södertörn University; Sweden Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Chantal Mouffe, Slavoj Žižek, and Julia Kristeva contribute in a problematic manner to the ontologizing of political antagonisms and hence also to the cementing of unfreedom. While showing how contradictions are not possible to be sublated in societal ... Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-03-18T05:00:22Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251321568
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Authors:Leandra Koenig-Visagie; South Africa Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article considers a 2010 government report on the South African visual arts industry. Using a Foucauldian lens, I show how it produces a discourse on ‘gender’ and ‘race’ where these terms function only as quantitative and statistical categories in an administrative and economic art world model. The report presents its findings according to four figures, namely, the ‘white male’, ‘white female’, ‘black male’ and ‘black female’, which I conceptualize as knowledge ‘avatars’ acting as placeholders that obscure the field’s complexity. Despite the use of ‘gender’ and ‘race’ terms identifying various issues in the field, the report’s recommendations to the government virtually ignores the race/gender imbalance so clearly revealed – it is simply folded out of sight or performed away discursively. This phenomenon is explained via Jennifer Tennant Jackson’s concept ‘the efficacity of meta-conceptual performativity’ – how discourses can push things away from the regular knowledge surface (the dispositif) into the ‘fold’. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-02-28T06:36:34Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251317107
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Authors:Nicolas Schneider; Germany Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article develops a critique of the post-foundationalist conception of politics put forward by Oliver Marchart. Confronting the depoliticizations that follow from both the foundationalist insistence on transhistorical foundations and the anti-foundationalist rejection of all foundations as fictions, post-foundationalism casts resistance as determinate negation of concrete political institutions rather than as opposition to phantasmatic totalities. I argue that this precludes the possibility to consider phantasmatic referents (be they divine right, natural law, the nation or the demos) as neither transhistorical/fictional nor exclusively political but to interpret them in terms of a conflict between competing modes of presencing. I elucidate this claim with reference to the work of Reiner Schürmann, which Marchart introduces as an exponent of post-foundationalism but which is better grasped as outlining a ‘para-foundational’ view. In focusing on the ultimate double bind that subtends foundations, Schürmann affords a more comprehensive perspective on the life and afterlife of the Western political and philosophical tradition. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-02-18T11:14:29Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537241308104
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Authors:Qi Jing; Los Angeles, USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article explores two predominant conceptions of reading – the Aristotelian framework from the Western traditions and the holistic dynamic approach rooted in Chinese philosophies. The Aristotelian conception emphasizes truth-seeking, knowledge acquisition, and self-fulfilment through a linear, teleological process. In contrast, the holistic dynamic conception, informed primarily by Confucian and Daoist texts, views reading as an ongoing, cyclical process of transformation, moral cultivation, and alignment with the broader milieu. Rather than treating these frameworks as oppositional, I propose a synthetic conception of reading that integrates both perspectives. This synthesis combines the pursuit of stable truths with the adaptability and moral cultivation central to the holistic dynamic approach. This article argues that such a combined framework offers a richer, more comprehensive understanding of reading as a practice that shapes individuals and societies alike. This approach holds significant implications for contemporary political theory, fostering more resilient and engaged political agents through transformative reading practices. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-02-12T12:59:04Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537241308107
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Authors:Turkan Firinci Orman; Finland Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article presents a reflective analysis that utilizes Hannah Arendt’s concepts to rethink utopias, examining how youth climate activism embodies her ideas of freedom and public action. It proposes viewing utopias as spaces for ongoing political engagement rather than as fixed visions of a perfect society. Grounded in Arendt’s critique of totalitarianism, the study highlights how young activists respond to the climate crisis through collective actions that express political freedom. By focusing on the youth climate movement, the article presents activism as a resilient alternative to rigid solutions, fostering new possibilities for justice and environmental change. Arendt’s concept of natality – representing new beginnings – connects with the hope-driven nature of youth movements that reimagine the future through collective action. Ultimately, it argues that, in an Arendtian sense, youth activism cultivates conditions for freedom and transformation in the present rather than merely pursuing a distant utopia. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-01-30T12:35:36Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251317117
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Authors:Sungmoon Kim, Ahyoung Lee; Ahyoung Lee53025City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article explores Han Fei’s political theory of rulership by taking a cue from his observation that most rulers are mediocre in their talent or skill. Through various analogies, Han Fei creates the image of a ruler as a paranoid man whose unique political life, defined by the possession of supreme power, puts him in a life of constant fear of usurpation and regicide. While urging the ruler to maintain absolute isolation and complete emotional detachment from all around him, which further exacerbates his anxiety, and to rely on wuwei statecraft based on law, Han Fei, nevertheless, stresses the critical importance of the otherwise mediocre ruler’s political agency – the ability to deliberate public matters, make laws that are best suited in the given context, and exercise political judgment in punishing and rewarding his subjects. This article concludes by highlighting the key difference between Han Fei’s conception of wuwei statecraft and its Confucian counterpart. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-01-10T12:37:38Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537251313735
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Authors:Christian Fuchs; Germany Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper asks: How can Spinoza help us to better understand digital capitalism' The article engages critically and constructively with the philosophies of Spinoza, Marx, Hegel, and Antonio Negri in order to combine elements from their works. It focuses on a particular aspect of digital capitalism, namely the antagonism between digital labour and digital capital. Spinoza did not directly analyse class relations. Nonetheless, his philosophy can help us to indirectly analyse contemporary capitalism. This paper undertakes an analysis of digital capitalism by taking Spinoza’s concepts of power as potentia and potestas as a starting point. Antonio Negri has stressed the dialectic of potentia and potestas as part of the analysis of class and capitalism. This paper connects Spinoza to Marx’s and Negri’s analyses of capitalism and the working class. It analyses digital capitalism’s antagonisms between digital labour and digital capital, digital commodities and digital commons, and the networked digital productive forces and the digital relations of production as the antagonism between digital potentia and digital potestas. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-01-08T05:53:54Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537241308108
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Authors:Germaine A. Hoston; USA Abstract: Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article analyzes the remarkable congruence between the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Mao Zedong regarding the role of consciousness, human will, and culture in socioeconomic change. These spiritual and humanistic concerns that are central to philosophical idealism were prominent in the young Marx’s writings, to which neither had access. Yet both theorists highlighted these elements as powerful, autonomous factors that can impede or accelerate socioeconomic change. It is argued that this congruence is best explained by the intersection of the Italian and Chinese philosophical traditions resulting from the impact of Neo-Confucianism on European idealist philosophy. While their work anticipated the cultural turn in leftist philosophy, it represents a nexus of Chinese and European humanistic and spiritual values that both challenges assumptions regarding the incommensurability of Eastern and Western philosophies and reaffirms the continued significance of these concerns for the continuing struggle between democratizing and authoritarian forces. Citation: Philosophy & Social Criticism PubDate: 2025-01-04T03:45:03Z DOI: 10.1177/01914537241308124
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