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Reverse hate speech, pragmatics, and the authority problem

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241308129?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 19, 2024 11:26

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Applying speech act theory to the phenomenon of hate speech, some philosophers seek to explain how even ordinary people can obtain the capacity, power, or authority to oppress, subordinate, or marginalise the…

False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241308133?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 19, 2024 09:59

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Theories of ideology explain the stability of unjust social institutions by reference to the ways in which social power undermines the epistemic agency of those subordinated by them. The historically dominant…

Language lost, language regained: Adorno’s Proustian reflections on childhood, exile and experience

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241308130?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 17, 2024 10:59

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This essay traces how experiences of childhood and exile attain systematic meaning in Adorno’s critical theory of language. Adorno is shown to model the child’s understanding of language after Proust’s novel Á…

Dancing in the streets: Rousseau, the genealogy of vice, and the practice of freedom

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241308123?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 13, 2024 02:59

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Only recently has Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality begun to be read as a genealogy rather than a variation on the social contract tradition. This article argues that reading Rousseau as a…

A postcosmopolitan condition? Economic progressivism and the return of great power war

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241308116?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 12, 2024 11:26

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. As an emancipatory political project, cosmopolitanism always invited skepticism. This paper focuses on the economic-progressivist line of critique of cosmopolitanism, which has gained momentum in recent years.…

Justice and Personality: A Promissory Note

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241301003?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 2, 2024 03:39

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Drucilla Cornell located her work and alliances at contested borders of exchange, translation, prickly political showdowns, gender affiliation, and inherited jointures of enmity. Cornell made us think about…

Confucian filiality revisited: The case of contemporary China

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241288471?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 18, 2024 07:21

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The ideal of filiality (xiao) – care and reverence for elderly parents and ancestors – is one of the central values in Confucianism. It has been hugely influential in Chinese society. However, it has often…

‘Beyond’: Reading (toward) Drucilla

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284511?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 14, 2024 08:53

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper enacts a work of mourning inspired by Drucilla Cornell’s own writings on the work of mourning in The Philosophy of the Limit. I begin by reflecting on the theme of the ‘beyond’ across her writings…

Rancière reading Plato: Myth against sociology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284524?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 7, 2024 03:36

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article examines how Rancière contrasts Plato’s philosophy with sociology, specifically that of Bourdieu and Passeron. In The Philosopher and His Poor, Plato is among those who exclude the majority not…

How to redeem a corrupted world: The aporia of negative theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284526?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 4, 2024 05:04

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In Minima Moralia, Adorno talks about a ‘messianic light’ which shines from beyond the corrupted world, offering the possibility of redemption from suffering. Theological statements like these have created…

Revisiting the climate general strike: Working through William Connolly’s strategic turn in the Anthropocene

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241288901?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 3, 2024 03:16

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. How can political theory respond to the challenges of mass action in the Anthropocene? In this article, I review criticisms of the recent work of William Connolly and respond by way of a particular mode of…

The people versus the grandees: The paradox of Claude Lefort’s ‘populism’

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284522?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 1, 2024 06:52

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, Claude Lefort has become a recurring reference point for mainstream authors hostile to populism. This article delves into the paradoxical character of Lefort’s own ‘populism’ to challenge…

Phenomenology and the status quo: Adorno’s mediation argument

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284545?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 30, 2024 07:42

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this paper, I discuss a well-known challenge against phenomenology as a viable form of social criticism. According to this challenge—the Mediation Argument—phenomenology falls short of the requirement that…

Antinomic normativity: Negative dialectics, moral skepticism, and the problem of the normative foundations of critique

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241287232?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 27, 2024 12:02

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article attempts to determine Adorno’s stance concerning two opposing positions in the relationship between critique and normativity. Although he rejects the demand to account for the normative…

From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284541?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 25, 2024 01:14

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Critical theory has historically assumed an undialectical either/or between reformist therapy and revolutionary politics. Frantz Fanon’s dialectical, psycho-social approach to recovery as disalienation offers…

Ideology as modes of being-with: An existential-phenomenological contribution to ideology critique

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284540?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 24, 2024 08:04

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. According to a broad historical and contemporary consensus, ideology resides in the mind, as a sort of belief system gone wrong. Recently, however, a minority view has challenged this cognitivist consensus by…

Artistic imagination and its role in moral progress. Embracing William James’ cries of the wounded

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284964?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 21, 2024 10:53

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In recent pragmatist-leaning philosophy and ethics, the Jamesian notion of the cries of the wounded has reemerged as a method of evoking moral progress. Philosophers like Philip Kitcher have argued that a…

Beyond the ‘hubris of the zero point’: Methods for resisting epistemic oppression

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241285590?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 21, 2024 07:58

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the epistemic dimension of dominant group ideologies in order to disrupt oppressive epistemic norms; specifically, the aspiration to ‘neutral’ knowledge, and as a result, what is given the…

A semblance of freedom: Horkheimer and Adorno’s conception of myth

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284718?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 19, 2024 07:40

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this paper I argue that the pessimistic reading of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, which suggests reason is ensconced within the domination of myth, misses a key component of the…

The cosmopolitan imperative: Or how to avoid wars through more democracy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284519?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 19, 2024 02:22

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The aim of the present study is to articulate a comparative study of Zeno of Citium and Immanuel Kant. The main reason for the comparative form of the study is that the full extent of the selective…

Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284531?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 19, 2024 02:19

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. An authoritative directive, when it has legitimacy, is a reason to exclude from consideration some of the reasons to act and not to act in this way. One is obliged to obey, even when one disagrees with the…

The paradox of possibility: A temporal reading of Thomas Hobbes

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284517?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 17, 2024 11:41

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article engages the role of temporality in the work of Thomas Hobbes. Rather than focusing on the political individual proposed by his later works, it politicizes the conception of subjectivity advanced…

Zhuangzi and ideological state apparatuses

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284987?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 17, 2024 10:31

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Louis Althusser is perhaps most well-known for his concept of ‘Ideological State Apparatuses’ (ISAs). However, Althusser is not clear about what role, if any, ISAs play in a post-capitalist society. At times,…

Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284544?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 17, 2024 06:46

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific…

Marcusean resources to think coloniality

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284521?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 17, 2024 01:51

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article aims to take a stand in the debates surrounding the potential contribution of the theoreticians of the first generation of the Frankfurt School to postcolonial/decolonial theory, by showing that…

Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284546?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 16, 2024 09:50

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This essay is an attempt to determine what Robert Bernasconi’s body of work in Critical Philosophy of Race can teach us about the way in which we, philosophers and professors of philosophy, ought to treat our…

Revisiting the Rorty–Lyotard debate: The microchip and liberal cosmopolitanism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241284525?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: September 14, 2024 03:30

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In the mid-1980s, Richard Rorty debated aspects of Jean-François Lyotard’s evolving theories of language and politics, embracing the latter’s critique of metanarratives as forms of metaphysics we should…

Refusing pathology: Black redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241270740?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: August 6, 2024 04:20

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The final chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth includes several psychiatric case histories that speak to the indelible effects of the deathly atmospherics of colonialism on the psychology of the…

Sources of solidarity. Between given identity and collective action

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241265117?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: August 6, 2024 02:26

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article discusses possible ways to account for how solidarity comes to be constituted. Beyond accounts tying solidarity either to identity, or to the adherence to a common normative framework, recent…

Adorno’s negative dialectics and its debt to Nietzsche: Could Nietzsche be the originator of Adorno’s negative dialectics?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241265116?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: July 22, 2024 01:51

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The dominant view for the relation between Adorno and Nietzsche is that the latter’s influence on the former, in terms of style and content, is primarily to be found in Adorno’s book Minima Moralia. Contrary…

Racism, epistemic injustice, and ideology critique

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241244824?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: April 12, 2024 09:58

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Since its 2007 publication, Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice has sparked a vigorous conversation in analytic philosophy about how social power corrodes individual’s epistemic capacities and distorts…

Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241244820?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: April 5, 2024 10:53

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article aims at elaborating a non-speculative concept of social pathology. In the first section, various conceptualizations (e.g. Habermas, Honneth) are critically revaluated. It is argued that (a)…

Violence, economic development, and knowledge production

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241238368?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: April 2, 2024 07:58

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The notion of economic violence has long been recognized in the work of Johan Galtung and others. The work of Thomas Pogge and the field of global justice have addressed the impact of economic disparities…

The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241239096?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: March 27, 2024 07:24

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Given demonstrated global knowledge inequality, this article attempts to draw out the connection between tertiary education and research (TER), economic development and infrastructure, and human development.…

Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241239093?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: March 26, 2024 05:16

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Linguistic justice is about institutions distributing material and symbolic resources fairly when they are faced with linguistic diversity. However, no theory of linguistic justice has developed a systematic…

Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241235571?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: March 16, 2024 12:37

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus…

From the age of immanence to the autonomy of the political: (Post)operaismo in theory and practice

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241240430?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: March 16, 2024 04:21

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines the transition from Marx to Spinoza within Antonio Negri’s postoperaist thought and explores a potential alternative rooted in Mario Tronti’s concept of the ‘autonomy of the…

Political friendship, respect, community: Hannah Arendt’s de-materialization of Aristotelian political friendship

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241232580?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: February 21, 2024 06:55

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this article I demonstrate how Hannah Arendt both appropriates and transforms Aristotle’s view of political friendship. I argue that the brief discussion of Aristotelian political friendship in The Human…

Mimicking myths of menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on ageing and femininity in fiction TV shows

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241232586?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: February 20, 2024 05:48

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a critical phenomenological analysis of prevailing myths of menopause. By drawing on Simone de Beauvoir's conceptions of myths that essentialize existence, we have analyzed contemporary TV…

Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241233428?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: February 19, 2024 06:30

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Richard Rorty does have something ‘to say to [Black Americans]’ and to their racially conscious nonblack allies in the sense that his understanding of liberalism, his prophecies about the future and his urgent…

Judith Butler and future generations: Transtemporal relationality, generational trouble and future-oriented ruthless critique

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241232965?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: February 16, 2024 01:15

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Radical theories of democracy deal only marginally with climate impacts. Judith Butler is part of this tradition and has worked on ecological issues in recent years. She might help contribute to beginning to…

Toward a universalistic theory of political obligation: A post-structuralist approach

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241230013?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: January 27, 2024 11:07

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Developing a plausible theory of political obligation is crucial for understanding our current political lives or constructing new ones. However, it proved to be hard to arrive at a theory that is…

Public and private interests in Han Fei: A statist approach

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241229052?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: January 25, 2024 12:06

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Han Fei was a central figure in Chinese Legalism, which was a leading school of thought in the Warring States period of China, and which left a huge imprint on political culture in imperial China. This article…

Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537241229055?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: January 20, 2024 11:50

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers to outline a direction for a decolonial political theory based on Aimé Césaire’s and Frantz Fanon’s thoughts. In doing so, I will first discuss some work of comparative political theory…

Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231219944?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 27, 2023 06:27

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In philosophy and political theory, the term paradox is often used synonymously with antinomy, contradiction and aporia. This article clarifies the meaning of these terms through tracing their respective…

Algorithmic sovereignty: Machine learning, ground truth, and the state of exception

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231222885?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 19, 2023 10:11

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article examines the interplay between contemporary algorithmic security technology and the political theory of the state of exception. I argue that the exception, as both a political and a technological…

The populist critique of ‘Corrupted’ representative claim making

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231222899?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 18, 2023 07:34

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Populism sets people against elites. Most discussions of populism focus on the dangers that come with assuming too homogenous a vision of a ‘pure’ people against a ‘corrupt’ elite. However, an obvious question…

The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231219924?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 15, 2023 05:13

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper identifies and articulates a historicist turn in theorising the human senses initiated by Feuerbach and Marx. Both philosophers retain their predecessors’ view that human needs determine human…

Returning to totality: Settler colonialism, decolonization, and struggles for freedom

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231219935?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 13, 2023 04:53

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. A unifying feature of the most prominent social movements that emerged in the 2010s is their dissatisfaction with explaining injustices on a case-by-case basis. In Canada, movements against settler colonialism…

From right to might, and back: Functional legitimacy as a realist value

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215729?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 13, 2023 01:42

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. For political realists, legitimacy is a central requirement for the desirability of political institutions. Their detractors contend that it is either descriptive, and thus devoid of critical potential, or it…

Decentring critical theory with the help of critical theory: Ecocide and the challenge of anthropocentricism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215681?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: December 1, 2023 11:36

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Our present situation of anthropogenic ecological disaster calls on Western philosophy in general, and Frankfurt School critical theory in particular, to reconsider some long-standing, entrenched assumptions…

Jean Améry and the time of resentment

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215674?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 24, 2023 03:26

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article provides a close reading of Jean Améry’s essay, ‘Resentments’ from the perspective of temporality. Although firmly grounded in a specific historical and political context (Améry, a Holocaust…

From totalitarianism to populism: Claude Lefort’s overlooked legacy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215725?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 23, 2023 02:23

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article recovers Claude Lefort’s engagement with the issue of populism, which was inspired by the emergence of Jean-Marie Le Pen as a major figure in French politics during the late 1980s. I show how…

MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215713?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 21, 2023 12:13

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article examines the views of Hegel and Alasdair MacIntyre regarding philosophical disagreements, whether or not they can be resolved and if so how. For both thinkers such a disagreement is thought of as…

Political Self-Cultivation for Humane Government: Yi I’s Defense of the Way of the Hegemon in Neo-Confucian Korea

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231211031?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 20, 2023 08:08

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. As ardent followers of Mencius and Zhu Xi, virtually all Korean Neo-Confucians during the Chosŏn dynasty rejected the Way of the Hegemon by understanding it as directly opposed to the Kingly Way, a humane…

Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Haiti revolt (1791–1804): Transatlantic print chronicles of race in an age of colonial market exchange

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231211042?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 20, 2023 06:00

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This work contributes to recent transdisciplinary efforts to view the Haitian slave revolt (1791–1804) as the historical inspiration for Hegel’s master-slave dialectic. Reconstructions offered by contemporary…

‘Be your own boss’? Normative concerns of algorithmic management in the gig economy: reclaiming agency at work through algorithmic counter-tactics

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231215680?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 17, 2023 08:31

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article explores the normative concerns raised for gig workers by algorithmic management (AM), by embracing an ethnographically sensitive approach to philosophical inquiry. Inspired by Michel de Certeau’s…

Rights and the human condition of non-sovereignty: Rethinking Arendt’s critique of human rights with Rancière and Balibar

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231211037?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 8, 2023 10:48

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. If the instance of human rights cannot ensure the protection of the rightless, as Arendt famously claimed, how can the rightless struggle for freedom and equality? In this essay, I attempt to answer this…

Realist legitimacy: What kind of internalism?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231211030?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: November 4, 2023 01:10

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Most realist theories of legitimacy are internalist theories, meaning that they regard legitimacy as a function of how subjects view their own rulers. However, some realists seek to qualify their internalism…

Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537231203525?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R

Published: October 23, 2023 10:19

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In a recent article, Fabian Freyenhagen argues that we should understand first-generation Frankfurt School critical theory (in particular, the work of Adorno and Horkheimer) as being defined by a kind of…

Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse: Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders, Tracy Strong and Carl Schmitt

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Published: October 7, 2023 05:41

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Beginning with Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders on eschatology, apocalypse and political theology, including Saint Paul and Frankfurt School critical theory along with bombs and power plants (energy/climate),…

The politics of drama: How Hegel’s aesthetics inform contemporary theories of radical democracy

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Published: September 23, 2023 01:11

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The history of political philosophy is marked by a conception of politics as inherently tragic. As such, it has hardly ever been systematically contrasted with the other model of dramatic art, comedy. In this…

Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny

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Published: August 17, 2023 07:34

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper argues that much of Jacques Rancière’s redefinition of emancipation owes a lot to one key character from his archival research on nineteenth-century worker-poets, Louis-Gabriel Gauny, the…

The ‘mystical’ foundation of democratic society, mythmaking and truth in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford 1962)

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Published: July 22, 2023 03:57

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this article, I combine political philosophy and film to examine the problematic of the ‘mystical’ foundation of authority and democracy as represented in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Ford’s filmic…

Demobilized democracy: Plebiscitarianism as political theology

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Published: July 10, 2023 01:27

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Drawing from Marx’s 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and the work of Carl Schmitt, this article proposes a framework that critically diagnoses the plebiscitary, executive-centered conception of democratic…

Political existentiality in Carl Schmitt; reenchanting the political

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Published: July 3, 2023 06:53

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Carl Schmitt described the political in existential terms. The political consists in the distinction between friend and enemy, a distinction between collectivities that are existentially different. This led…

Fugitive freedom and radical care: Towards a standpoint theory of normativity

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Published: June 29, 2023 06:55

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Epistemic standpoint theories have elaborated the effects of social situatedness on epistemic competence: Dominant groups are regularly subject to epistemic blockages that limit the possibility of cognition…

Whose idea of socialism? Conflicting conceptions of the family and women’s subordination

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Published: June 27, 2023 07:40

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article compares Honneth’s attempt to revise socialist thinking on women’s subordination in the family with feminist work on the topic. Both identify economism as the reason why socialism has historically…

Designing for epistemic justice: Epistemic apprenticeship as an institutional commitment

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Published: June 27, 2023 05:05

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper develops the concept of epistemic apprenticeship as a response to failures among privileged social actors to perceive the knowledge bases of unjustly marginalised groups as sources of valuable…

Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics

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Published: June 26, 2023 09:20

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article for the first time seeks to bring together theoretical insights from Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin in order to strengthen their respective understanding of ethics. First, the article suggests…

Foucault’s anarchaeology of Christianity: Understanding confession as a basic form of obedience

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Published: June 23, 2023 07:56

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In his later lectures, Foucault analyzes confession as a key exercise of the Christian pastoral power. The pastoral power’s creation of a lifelong obligation to speak the truth of oneself is a ‘prelude’ to…

The carceral appropriation of communications technology through the imaginal

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Published: June 23, 2023 06:56

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article explores the effect that communications technology has on hegemonic power. The first section establishes a theoretical framework combining Foucault’s carceral archipelago theory with Chiara…

The disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg: Rethinking revolutionary commitment in the face of failure

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Published: June 19, 2023 02:57

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Despite the recent revival of revolutionary commitment in response to left melancholia, I suggest that the contemporary academic left has not adequately addressed the difficulty of responding to failure as an…

Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction

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Published: June 19, 2023 02:10

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. From a Benjaminian point of view, AI-generated art is distinct from both ‘traditional’ art and technologically enabled reproduction, for example, photography and film. Instead of mere mechanical representation…

The anatomo-politics of affect: An investigation of affective governmentality

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Published: June 19, 2023 01:47

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The present inquiry concerns ‘affective governmentality’ and is guided by the following question: How did affects become intelligible objects of knowledge and what enabled a scientific conception of affect to…

Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples

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Published: June 12, 2023 03:51

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article aims to investigate the problematic relationship between populism and democracy by comparing the conceptions of ‘the people’ and popular sovereignty which they presuppose. In the first two…

For a Negative Hermeneutics: Adorno, Gadamer and Critical Consciousness

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Published: May 24, 2023 11:24

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The present social-historical moment is marked by a sharp divide, a harrowing ‘communication breakdown’ between subject and object, between humanity and nature, between humanity and itself. This state of…

The owl of Minerva and the dialectic of human freedom: A heterodox reading

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Published: May 6, 2023 11:02

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In the preface to the Philosophy of Right, Hegel compares the philosopher’s work to the flight of the owl of Minerva: just as the latter begins only with the fall of dusk, so too is philosophy bound to ‘come…

A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change

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Published: May 3, 2023 11:15

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a Marxist reading of Wittgenstein and juxtaposes his famous dictum that philosophy ‘leaves everything as it is’ with the idea of transformative action. I seek to align the later philosophy…

Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake?

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Published: April 21, 2023 11:26

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. My aim in this paper is to argue, contra Axel Honneth, that ‘the summons’ (Aufforderung), the central pillar of Fichte’s transcendentalist account of recognition, is best made sense of not as an ‘invitation’,…

The humanism of critical theory: The Frankfurt School’s ‘realer humanismus’

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Published: April 20, 2023 10:45

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Theodor Adorno has been quoted as responding to the Humanist Union stating ‘I might possibly be willing to join if your club had been called an inhuman union, but I could not join one that calls itself…

Against insular liberalism: Sayyid Qutb, illiberal Islam and the forceless force of the better argument

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Published: March 31, 2023 06:50

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Political liberals claim that liberal polities may legitimately dismiss the objections of ‘unreasonable’ citizens who resist political liberals’ favored principles of justice and political justification. A…

Book Review: A glitch in the matrix: Vivek Chibber and the cultural turn

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Published: March 18, 2023 07:31

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Chibber’s The Class Matrix and Confronting Capitalism aim to rescue class from the cultural turn. Rather than thinking that mass media mollified the working class, he suggests we re-investigate capitalism…

Supplication as violence: The provision of institutionalized care and the essence of giving

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Published: February 23, 2023 09:54

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article casts its attention on acts of supplication in institutional settings. The article focuses upon institutions geared towards the provision of care, that is, sites that are designed to provide…

History, critique, experience: On the dialectical relationship between art and philosophy in Adorno’s aesthetic theory

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Published: February 23, 2023 01:12

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In Aesthetic Theory, Adorno argues that, in modernity, art and philosophy are reciprocally dependent upon each other for legitimation and critical force. This claim has puzzled scholars and provoked…

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