About this journal

Aims and scope

Critical Horizons: a journal of philosophy and social theory works at the intersection of philosophy, aesthetics and social and critical theory. It brings together a unique combination of perspectives to create a vibrant forum for critical analysis and creative dissonance. Critical Horizons is dedicated to publishing original analyses of contemporary social and cultural life from those working at the forefront of critical thinking as well as new generations of critical theorists from across a broad range of cultural contexts and theoretical traditions.

Critical Horizons publishes articles from critical theorists working in social and political philosophy, aesthetics, spatial and urban theory, anthropology, history of ideas, film and art theory, gender studies, comparative literature, social and critical theory.

Critical Horizons is an internationally refereed journal and has published the work of Etienne Balibar, Andrew Bowie, Fred Dallmayr, Manfred Frank, Agnes Heller, Dieter Henrich, Axel Honneth, Martin Jay, Richard Kearney, Alphonso Lingis, Paul Patton, Jacques Rancière, Emmanuel Renault, and Richard Rorty.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 34K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.153 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.288 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 22 days avg. from acceptance to online publication

Editorial board

Editors:

Aesthetics Editor:

  • Alison Ross (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

Reviews Editor:

  • Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

Editorial Assistant:

  • Samuel Ferns (University College, Dublin)

Editorial Board:

  • Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
  • Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, Surrey, UK)
  • Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University, USA)
  • Terry Eagleton (Manchester University, UK)
  • Stephane Haber (Universite de Franche-Comte, France)
  • Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
  • Axel Honneth (Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
  • Martin Jay (University of California, Berkley, USA)
  • Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
  • Christian Lazzeri (University Paris X-Nanterre, Paris, France)
  • Shane O'Neill (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
  • James Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
  • Yves Sintomer (Paris-VIII University, France)
  • Nicholas Smith (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
  • Titus Stahl (Rijks University Groningen, The Netherlands)
  • Thomas E Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA)
  • Christopher Zurn (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)

Editorial Advisory Board:

  • Jane Bennett (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  • Remo Bodei (University of Pisa, Italy & UCLA, USA)
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Jean Cohen (Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • William Connolly (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  • Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
  • Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
  • Dick Howard (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA)
  • Wayne Hudson (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
  • Richard Kearney (Boston College, MA, USA)
  • Alphonso Lingis (Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Gyorgy Markus (University of Sydney, NSW, Australia)
  • Stephen Mennell (University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • Paul Patton (University of NSW, Sydney, Australia)
  • Mark Poster (University of California, USA)
  • Paul Rabinow (University California, Berkley, USA)
  • Richard Rorty (University of Stanford, USA)
  • Michel Wieviorka (Ecole des Hautes Etudies en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
  • Richard Wolin (City University of New York, USA)

Abstracting and indexing

Critical Horizons is included in the following services:

Philosophy Research Index

The Philosopher's Index

Proquest/CSA Sociological Abstracts

Proquest/CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Proquest/CSA Social Service Abstracts

Scopus

Open access

Critical Horizons is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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