Research
Political Theory; Groups, Identities and Social Movements; Political thought and ideologies; Norms, legitimacy and justification; Democratic theory; Feminism, Gender, Identity.
Publications
Journal Articles
2023
McNay, L. (2023) “The politics of welfare”, European Journal of Political Theory, 22(1), pp. 171–180.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851211008002
2018
McNay, L. (2018) “Who is the ’communis’ in sensus communis”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45(2).
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718816350
Mcnay, L. (2018) “The politics of examplarity: Ferrara on the disclosure of new political worlds”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45(2), pp. 127–145.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718762618
2017
McNay, L. (2017) “Ontology and critique”, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, 16(4), pp. 524–531.
Mihai, M. et al. (2017) “Critical Exchange: Democracy, critique and the ontological turn”, Contemporary Political Theory, 16(4), pp. 501–531.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-017-0140-0
2016
McNay, L. (2016) “The limits of justification: Critique, disclosure and reflexivity”, European Journal of Political theory, 19(1), pp. 26–46.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885116670294
2015
McNay, L. (2015) “Social Freedom and Progress in the Family: Reflections on Care, Gender and Inequality”, Critical Horizons, 16(2), pp. 170–186.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1179/1440991715z.00000000046
Books
2021
Butler, J. et al. (2021) Recognition and Ambivalence, pp. 1–337.
2014
McNay, L. (2014) The Misguided Search for the Political. Polity.
Chapters
2022
McNay, L. (2022) “Recognising Disempowerment: Taking the ‘Merely Experienced’ Seriously”, in Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition, pp. 88–113.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429435133-6
2021
McNay, L. (2021) “HISTORICIZING RECOGNITION From Ontology to Teleology”, in RECOGNITION AND AMBIVALENCE, pp. 69–97.
2013
McNay, L. (2013) “The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe’s Radical Democracy”, in Gender, Agency, and Coercion. Springer Nature, pp. 64–83.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295613_5
2012
McNay, L. (2012) “Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power”, in Embodied Selves. Springer Nature, pp. 230–248.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283696_14
