Publications in English
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
“Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration,” Contemporary Political Theory, 2024 (web/pdf).
“Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction,” Political Theory, vol. 51, no. 6, 2023, 955-980 (web/pdf).
“Eichmann in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt reads Hannah Arendt,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 20, no. 1, 2023, 270-297 (web/pdf).
“Decolonizing the ‘Universal Republic’: The Paris Commune and French Empire,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 49 no. 3 (special issue on the Paris Commune), 2021, 585-603 (web/pdf).
“Civil Society as Domestication: Egyptian and Tunisian Uprisings Beyond Liberal Transitology,” Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 1, Fall 2014, 252-265; accelerated review for student award essay (web/pdf).
Book chapters and invited contributions:
“Pearl-Diving as Method: Arendt, Glissant, and the History of Broken Traditions,” in Neil Roberts and Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, eds., Creolizing Hannah Arendt, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2024, 73-100 (web).
“How to Make the Moment Last? On Rupture and Institutions in Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality,” Historical Materialism, vol. 30, no. 4, 2022, 108-124. Symposium on Massimiliano Tomba, Insurgent Universality, with a response by Massimiliano Tomba (web/pdf).
“Notes from the Cracks of the Pantheon: On Symbolic Friction and the Possibility of Counter-Institutions,” in Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang, eds., New Geographies, issue 12, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2021 (web/pdf).
“Fugitive World-Building: Rethinking the Cosmopolitics of Anti-Slavery Struggle with Arendt and Glissant,” in Tamara Caraus and Elena Paris, eds., Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance: A Radical Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, London: Routledge 2018, 186-204 (web/pdf).
Forthcoming (January 2026):
“The ‘Morning After Question’ of Insurgent Democracy: Miguel Abensour on Institutional Durability,” invited contribution to Martin Breaugh and Paul Mazzocchi, eds., For a Critical-Utopian Political Philosophy: Emancipation, Domination and the Legacy of Miguel Abensour, under contract with State University of New York Press.
“Plebeian Internationalism: Building the ‘Universal Republic’ in 19th Century Social Movements,” invited contribution to Juliette Faure, Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock, eds., Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis, under contract with Routledge.
In preparation (January 2026):
“‘Integral Association’: Recovering the Plebeian Internationalism of Antônio Pedro de Figueiredo” (working paper).
“Internationalism of the Stateless: Hannah Arendt on Institutions beyond Sovereignty,” invited contribution to Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen and Maria Robaszkiewicz, Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism at 75, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Invited review for Arendt Studies of Hannah Arendt, Über Palästina, edited by Thomas Meyer, Munich, Piper, 2024.
Book reviews:
“Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction, Dana Villa, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023, 160 pp., ISBN 0192533630,” Contemporary Political Theory, 2024, online first (web).
“Uriel Abulof: The Mortality and Morality of Nations: Jews, Afrikaners and French Canadians. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. x, 371.),” The Review of Politics, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2018, 745-748 (web).
Other publications:
“The Volcano of Imagination: A Cornelius Castoriadis Forum,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, June 14, 2023 (web).
“‘I think my enemy’: Carl Schmitt, sick of reading Arendt,” Cambridge Core Blog, Cambridge University Press, July 21, 2022 (web).
“The Archive is Burning: Walter Benjamin in Brazil,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, September 6, 2017 (web).
“Against the Masters of Speed: Reflections on a Frenetic Standstill,” 3:am magazine, August 3, 2015 (web).
Niklas Plaetzer 