CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer Issue 2026
Special issue:
Critical pragmatism and the New Populism
Critical Theorists and Pragmatists
Confront the New Populism
The resurgence of populism in Europe and
North America has created a new challenge for our present society. Critical
theory and pragmatism have a duty to study and interpret this movement in
culture. The changes are complicated and do not belong in any clear way to the
traditional divisions between right and left. This New Populism has arisen as a
counterpoise of neo-liberalism, and both pragmatists and critical theorists must
meet the challenge of sorting through the complex rearrangements of loyalties,
channels of power, relations of the body politic to its leaders and
representatives, and the corporate interests that play these social forces off
one another for the sake of profit. What exactly is the New Populism? What are
the origins of the building public support for it? What of the rising command of
billionaires in the political domain, and the apparent tension between a
movement of the people and a rule of the billionaires? What role does government
have in balancing the interests of present and future society in light of this
re-alignment of social, political, and cultural values? What role does the
educational establishment need to play in balancing these competing interests?
These and other questions should be studied and interpreted in this special
issue of Pragmatism Today.
We invite papers that are between 15-20
pages (6000-9000 words).
The deadline for paper submissions is
January 15th 2026. The guidelines for authors can be found on the journal
webpage.
Papers for this issue should be to Marcin
Kilanowski (guest editor for the special issue):
markil@umk.pl
