Joel Schlosser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Schlosser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlosser |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLOSSER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Response to Critics
We are deeply gratified by the constructive and generous engagement with our book.We are especially moved to be in dialogue and company with this group of scholars, whose work has helped us develop and push our own thinking.In our response, we want to address some of the questions and provocations offered in the individual essays.To begin, our goal was to write a romance.By this, we mean that we chose the genre of romance to carry our argument fo…
Introduction to Special Issue
What hopes exist and persist for democratic and ecological flourishing in these perilous times?This special issue of Democratic Theory gathers thinkers from diverse perspectives to engage themes related to ecological and democratic flourishing-themes that have become increasingly urgent as democratic attempts to address the climate crisis have faltered while democracy itself appears to approach extinction.In our 2024 book, Earthborn Democracy (EB…
Democracy and the Unconscious
This essay examines the relationship between democracy and the unconscious. It does so by understanding democracy through the repressed desire for shared power by a collective actor that has episodically realized itself, in ways that haunt political languages, practices, and aspirations. Democratic flourishing rests upon erotic practices through which the demos transgressively transforms politics by embracing what we refer to as democratic narcis…
A Democratic Turn within Democratic Socialism? State-Centric and Anti-Statist Visions of Socialism and the Challenge of Democratic Mirroring
In this paper, we theorize the democratic aspect of democratic socialism through some of its recent, theoretical articulations and several of its historical, fugitive appearances. To illustrate a potential democratic turn, we highlight how these moments reflect a paradox of democratic spirit: the necessity of cultivating collective consciousness of popular power, while also acknowledging the limits of this power through a lingering attachment to …
Democracy and the Unconscious
This essay examines the relationship between democracy and the unconscious. It does so by understanding democracy through the repressed desire for shared power by a collective actor that has episodically realized itself, in ways that haunt political languages, practices, and aspirations. Democratic flourishing rests upon erotic practices through which the demos transgressively transforms politics by embracing what we refer to as democratic narcis…
A Democratic Turn within Democratic Socialism? State-Centric and Anti-Statist Visions of Socialism and the Challenge of Democratic Mirroring
In this paper, we theorize the democratic aspect of democratic socialism through some of its recent, theoretical articulations and several of its historical, fugitive appearances. To illustrate a potential democratic turn, we highlight how these moments reflect a paradox of democratic spirit: the necessity of cultivating collective consciousness of popular power, while also acknowledging the limits of this power through a lingering attachment to …
Democracy and the Unconscious
This essay examines the relationship between democracy and the unconscious. It does so by understanding democracy through the repressed desire for shared power by a collective actor that has episodically realized itself, in ways that haunt political languages, practices, and aspirations. Democratic flourishing rests upon erotic practices through which the demos transgressively transforms politics by embracing what we refer to as democratic narcis…
Response to Critics
We are deeply gratified by the constructive and generous engagement with our book.We are especially moved to be in dialogue and company with this group of scholars, whose work has helped us develop and push our own thinking.In our response, we want to address some of the questions and provocations offered in the individual essays.To begin, our goal was to write a romance.By this, we mean that we chose the genre of romance to carry our argument fo…
Introduction to Special Issue
What hopes exist and persist for democratic and ecological flourishing in these perilous times?This special issue of Democratic Theory gathers thinkers from diverse perspectives to engage themes related to ecological and democratic flourishing-themes that have become increasingly urgent as democratic attempts to address the climate crisis have faltered while democracy itself appears to approach extinction.In our 2024 book, Earthborn Democracy (EB…
Democracy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Flourishing (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (2 works)