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| Praxis (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Praxis |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviation | Praxis |
| Publisher | [Independent/University press] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1980–present |
Praxis (journal) is an academic periodical focused on theoretical and applied philosophy with interdisciplinary engagement across Political philosophy, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of science, and Critical theory. Founded in the late 20th century, the journal situates analytic and continental approaches alongside contributions from scholars associated with Cambridge School, Frankfurt School, Prague Spring–era thinkers, and commentators connected to institutions such as Oxford University, Harvard University, University of Chicago, and London School of Economics. It has published work intersecting with debates involving figures and movements like Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, and Jürgen Habermas.
The journal emerged amid intellectual currents shaped by events including the intellectual aftermath of May 1968, the trajectories of New Left politics, and responses to publications such as The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and A Theory of Justice. Early editorial boards included scholars linked to University of Manchester, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, and visiting contributors from Columbia University and Yale University. Over successive decades Praxis adapted to shifts marked by conferences at venues like The British Academy, panels at the American Philosophical Association, and symposia responding to works by Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu, Simone de Beauvoir, and Gilles Deleuze.
Praxis seeks to bridge scholarship associated with traditions represented by Analytic philosophy, Continental philosophy, Pragmatism, and Phenomenology. It encourages submissions examining texts by canonical authors such as Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, as well as interventions addressing contemporary figures like Judith Butler, Cornel West, Amartya Sen, and Martha Nussbaum. The editorial aim emphasizes critical engagement with works relating to institutions including European Union, United Nations, NATO, and debates arising from adjudications such as Brown v. Board of Education or legislative contexts like Civil Rights Act. The journal solicits research articles, review essays, translations, and responses that dialogue with archives from British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and university special collections at Princeton University and Stanford University.
Issued on a quarterly timetable, the journal mirrors formats used by peer publications such as Mind (journal), Philosophical Review, New Left Review, and The Journal of Philosophy. Each issue typically contains research articles, symposiums, book reviews, and occasional special issues centered on events like anniversaries of texts such as Dialectic of Enlightenment or centenaries of figures like Bertrand Russell and Simone Weil. Production involves collaboration with presses and distribution channels linked to university bookstores at Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and scholarly databases operated by organizations including JSTOR, Project MUSE, and EBSCO.
The journal has featured essays and debates by contributors associated with institutes such as Institute for Advanced Study, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute (in critical response contexts), and university departments at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and King's College London. Noteworthy pieces have engaged with landmark works by Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Ricoeur, Sidney Hook, and Isaiah Berlin; symposiums have addressed controversies surrounding texts like The Closing of the American Mind and The End of History and the Last Man. The journal has published translations and commentaries on primary sources by Alexandre Kojève, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and archival recoveries linked to correspondences of Ludwig Feuerbach and Rosa Luxemburg.
Praxis has been cited in debates across forums represented by House of Commons committee hearings, university curricula at University of Oxford and Harvard University, and policy discussions involving European Commission briefings. Reviews in outlets such as Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books have situated its contributions alongside those from Critical Inquiry and History of Political Thought. The journal's influence extends into postgraduate seminars at Sorbonne University, University of Toronto, and think tanks including Chatham House and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where its essays inform panels and policy memos.
Praxis is indexed in major bibliographic services and abstracting databases including Scopus, Web of Science, PhilPapers, and catalogues of national libraries such as Library of Congress and British Library. Digital back issues are accessible through institutional subscriptions via platforms like JSTOR, Project MUSE, and provider aggregators used by university consortia at ARL (Association of Research Libraries). The journal participates in open peer review experiments discussed at conferences of the Modern Language Association and the Open Access movement, and offers embargoed open access options consistent with policies of funders such as Wellcome Trust and European Research Council.
Category:Philosophy journals