Philosophy & Social Criticism

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article identifies three dominant models for democratic dynamics, based on battle, competition, and game, respectively, and assesses their strengths and weaknesses in the debate on democratic self-…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. As growing challenges confront the universality of the separation of powers doctrine, this paper aims to provide a complementary perspective for constitutional theory. It suggests existing theories face…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. According to Arendt, socioeconomic issues should be divorced from politics. This claim can only be puzzling today, when socioeconomic issues are at the very core of politics. Indeed, Arendt’s sharp dist…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Political theorists and social philosophers who specialize in democratic citizenship education increasingly view deep disagreement as a challenge. Some have gone so far as to call for a fundamental reth…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Social epistemic instrumentalism (SEI) argues that epistemic norms derive their authority from serving collective epistemic goals, not individual aims. This paper critically examines whether SEI can exp…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article rethinks the semantic constellation circulating around nature and artifice, earth and world, ‘the given’ and ‘the made’ in Hannah Arendt’s thought. The conventional reading conflates nature…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Applied philosophers have often defined ‘exploitation’ as a narrow, transaction-specific concept, ignoring its broader social or structural context. On this view, structural injustices are treated as ir…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a philosophical critique of meritocratic ideology via theZhuangzi, focussing on the ‘Robber Zhi’ chapter as a philosophical intervention against the Confucian justification of hierar…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Even if theoretical and empirical research on antisemitism has been making further progress in recent decades, the findings associated with this expertise in social sciences do not represent a specific …