Philosophy & Social Criticism

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.

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 fil…

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 democrat…

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…

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 cogni…

Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The concept of ‘the violence inherent in the system’ was famously satirized by Monty Python in their movie The Holy Grail. In order to avoid ridicule, left-wing theorists and activists for a long time s…

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 histo…

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 valuabl…

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 su…

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’…