Detailed list of publications and papers
I. European political theory and intellectual history
(14) Wim Weymans, ‘Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics', in: Marie Göbel and Andreas Niederberger (eds.), Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values. Ethical Perspectives on Europe’s Refugee Policy (New York: Routledge 2024) 61-87. Online (open access)
(13) Wim Weymans, ‘A critical history of the use of “European values”’, in: Regina Polak and Patrick Rohs (eds.), Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study. In-depth Analysis – Interdisciplinary Perspectives – Future Prospects (Cham: Springer 2023) 95-123. Online (open access)
(12) Wim Weymans, ‘Deepening democracy through contestation? Lefort and Gauchet on May 1968 and its legacy’, The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, 41, 1 (2020) 121-139. Online
(11) Wim Weymans, ‘From Marianne to Louise. Three ways to represent the (European) people in democratic societies’, in: Anna Schober (ed.), Popularization and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images (London – New York: Routledge 2020) 31-45. Online
(10) Wim Weymans, ‘On the critical potential of Rosanvallon’s wide definition of democracy’, in: Oliver Flügel, Steven Sawyer a.o. (eds.), Pierre Rosanvallon's Political Thought. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Bielefeld University Press 2019) 99-118. Also appeared in German as ‘Demokratie als Gesellschaftsform: Pierre Rosanvallon und die vielfältige Stimmen des Volkes’ In Oliver Flügel and Franziska Martinsen (eds.), Aktuelle Staatskritik und Demokratietheorie aus Frankreich (Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag 2015a) 167-185. Online (open access)
(9) Wim Weymans, ‘Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain’s Thomism to Vignaux’s secular realism’. In Rajesh Heyninckx and Stéphane Symons (eds.), What's so new about scholasticism? How Neo-Thomism helped shape the Twentieth Century (Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2018) 39-57. Online
(8) Wim Weymans, ‘Radical democracy’s past and future: histories of the symbolic’, Modern Intellectual History, 13 (2016) 3, 841-851. Online
(7) Wim Weymans, 'Defending democracy’s symbolic dimension: a Lefortian critique of Arendt’s Marxist assumptions', Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 19 (2012) 1, 63-80. Online. (Also appeared in German: Link to book)
(6) Wim Weymans and Andreas Hetzel, 'From substantive to negative universalism. Lefort and Habermas on legitimacy in democratic societies', Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, Number 108 (2012) 26-43. Online
(5) Wim Weymans, 'Revising Foucault’s model of modernity and exclusion: Gauchet and Swain on madness and democracy', Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, Number 98 (2009) 33-51. Online
(4) Wim Weymans, 'Understanding the present through the past? Quentin Skinner and Pierre Rosanvallon on the crisis of political representation', Redescriptions. Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History (2007) 45-60. Online (open access)
(3) Wim Weymans, 'Freedom through political representation? Lefort, Gauchet and Rosanvallon on the relationship between state and society', European Journal of Political Theory, 4 (2005) 3, 263-282. (Also appeared in German). Online
(2) Wim Weymans, 'Pierre Rosanvallon und das Problem der politischen Repräsentation'; In Oliver Flügel, Reinhard Heil, Andreas Hetzel (eds.), Die Rückkehr des Politischen: Demokratietheorien heute (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2004) 87-112. Link to book (Also appeared in Dutch: Online (open access)
(1) Wim Weymans, 'Michel de Certeau and the Limits of Historical Representation', History and Theory. Studies in the Philosophy of History, 43 (2004) 2, 161-178. (Also appeared in Spanish, German and Dutch). Online (JSTOR)
II. European higher education policy
(4) Wim Weymans, 'Reconnecting the humanities with the public: on how (not) to publish at European universities'; In Maarten Simons, Mathias Decuypere, Joris Vlieghe and Jan Masschelein (eds.), Curating the European university. Exposition and public debate (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2011) 113-120. download here link google books (incomplete)
Abridged and contextualized version (in Dutch): Online (open access) or download pdf here
(3) Wim Weymans, 'Democracy, knowledge and critique: rethinking European universities beyond tradition and the market', London Review of Education, 8 (2010) 2, 117-126. Link
(2) Wim Weymans, 'Review article: The merits and limits of using Foucault to criticize lifelong learning', Studies in Philosophy and Education, 28 (2009) 6, 589-596. Link
(1) Wim Weymans, 'From coherence to differentiation: understanding (changes in) the European area for higher education and research'; In Robert Cowen and Andreas Kazamias (eds.), International Handbook of Comparative Education (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009) 561-576. (Also appeared in Portuguese) Online
A shorter version appeared in the New York Consortium for European Studies Newsletter, April 2007
III. Internationalism in practice and expat life; migration studies
Wim Weymans, ‘At home abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: cosmopolitan versus diasporic internationalism’; In: Klaus Stierstorfer and Florian Kläger (eds.), Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging (Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter, 2015) 279-295. Link