Peer-reviewed articles and chapters:
Mikkel Flohr, “Historie, kritik og politik: Bidrag til konstruktionen af en historisk materialistisk tilgang til politisk teori og idéhistorie,” Politica 58, no. 1-2 (2026): 76-98.
Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen and Mikkel Flohr, “Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly: Liberal, Associational and Radical,” Politics and Society (forthcoming).
Mikkel Flohr, “Rousseau til tiden: Samfundskontraktens paradoksale temporalitet og folkets dobbelthed” [Rousseau for the Times: The Paradoxical Temporality of the Social Contract and the Duality of the People], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie (forthcoming).
Mikkel Flohr, “Politisk teologi: Sekularisering, suverænitet og stat” [Political Theology: Secularization, Sovereignty, and State]. In Religion og idéhistorie, ed. Johan Cederfeldt, Andreas Tagmose Grønkjær and Jakob Rosenkrands Uldall (Copenhagen: Baggrund, forthcoming).
Mikkel Flohr, “Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions,” Theory, Culture & Society 42, no. 4 (2025): 43-59.
Mikkel Flohr, “Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” Thesis Eleven 190, no. 1 (2025): 106-117.
Mikkel Flohr, “The Politics of ‘Crisis’ in a Historical Perspective,” Age of Revolutions (2025).
Mikkel Flohr, “The Use and Abuse of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract in Contemporary Political Thought: Towards a Reinterpretation,” Telos 210 (2025): 8-28.
Mikkel Flohr, “Towards a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilites,” Rethinking Marxism 37, no. 1 (2025): 113-31.
Mikkel Flohr, “Beyond Political Theology: Marx’s Materialist Reconceptualization of Democracy and Constituent Power,” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 26, no. 1 (2024): 95-119.
Mikkel Flohr, “Karl Marx’s Critique of the State as an Alienation of Society in the 1843 Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State,” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 25, no. 3 (2024): 361-85.
Mikkel Flohr, “Modsætninger og muligheder i Marxistisk idéhistorie” [Contradictions and Possibilities of Marxist History of Ideas and Ideology]. In Filosofi og idéhistorie, ed. Mikkel Thorup (Copenhagen: Baggrund, 2024): 80-93.
Mikkel Flohr, “The Populist Foundations of Democracy: The Conceptual History of the People [Folket] in The Constitutional Struggles in Denmark, 1830-1920,” European Journal of Sociology: 65, no. 1 (2024): 1-39.
Mikkel Flohr and Mathias Hein Jessen, “Foucault Værktøjskasse” [Foucault’s Toolbox]. In Michel Foucault om teori og metode [Michel Foucault on Theory and Method], ed. Mikkel Flohr and Mathias Hein Jessen (DJØF Forlag: Copenhagen, 2024): 7-44.
Mikkel Flohr, “Beyond the Nation State: Rereading Hannah Arendt’s ‘We Refugees’ Eighty Years Later,” New Political Science 46 (2024): 6-20.
Mikkel Flohr, “Stasis: Civil War, Revolution and Destitution in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer-series,” Parrhesia: 37(2023): 173-206.
Mikkel Flohr, “Med Hegel i Lockdown: Samfundssind og Sædelighed” [With Hegel in Lockdown: “Samfundssind” and Ethical Life]. In Pandemi – idéhistorien læser Corona-pandemien, ed. Daniel Malling Blaabjerg-Zederkoff (Copenhagen: Baggrund, 2023): 144-161.
Mikkel Flohr, “Political Atheism: Towards a Profane Reconceptualization of the Modern State.” In Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt, ed. Mitchell Dean, Lotte List and Stefan Schwarzkopf (London: Bloomsbury, 2023): 46-59.
Mikkel Flohr, “En begrebshistorisk analyse af folkets selvstyrelse I forfatningskampen” [The People’s Self-rule in the Constitutional Struggle], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 85 (2022): 133-153.
Mikkel Flohr and Allan Dreyer Hansen, “Folk, folkestyre og populisme – Et historisk og tematisk overblik” [The People, Democracy and Populism – A Historical and Thematic Overview], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 85 (2022): 7-34.
Mikkel Flohr Allan Dreyer Hansen, Cas Mudde, Jan-Werner Müller, Chantal Mouffe, Anton Jäger and Camila Vergara, “Enquete om populisme” [Enquete on Populism], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 85 (2022): 239-263.
Mikkel Flohr, “From the Critique of the Heavens to the Critique of the Earth: A Contribution to the Reconstruction of Karl Marx’s unfinished Critique of Political Theology,” Theory and Event: 24, no. 2 (2021): 537-571.
Mikkel Flohr, “Fra kritikken af himlen til kritikken af jorden: bidrag til rekonstruktionen af Marx’ ufærdige kritik af politisk teologi” [From the Critique of Heaven to the Critique of Earth: Towards a Reconstruction of Marx’s Incomplete Critique of Political Theology], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 77 (2018): 149-172.
Mikkel Flohr, “The Tübingen Fragment: From Moral Philosophy to Normative Social Theory.” In The Young Hegel and Religion, ed. Evangelia Sembou (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017): 37-67.
Mikkel Flohr, “Giorgio Agamben’s inclusive Exclusion of Étienne De la Boétie,” Telos: 118 (2017): 106-12.
Mikkel Flohr, “Regicide and Resistance: Foucault’s Reconceptualization of Power,” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory: 17, no. 1 (2016): 38-56.
Mikkel Flohr and Yannick Harrison, “Reading the Conjuncture: State, Austerity and Social Movements: An Interview with Bob Jessop,” Rethinking Marxism: 28, no. 2 (2016): 306-321.
Mikkel Flohr, “Borgerkrig fra Athen til Auschwitz: Et essay om de politiske (u-)muligheder i Agambens tænkning” [Civil War from Athens to Auschwitz: An Essay on the Political (Im-)Possibilities of Agamben’s Thought], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 72 (2015): 37-54.
Monographs and edited volumes:
Mikkel Flohr and Sara-Maria Sorentino (eds.), “Marx and Revolution,” special double issue of Political Theology (forthcoming/2026). TBA.
Mikkel Flohr, Akritas Kaidatzis, Aspacia Theochari, and Allan Dreyer Hansen (ed.), “Populism and Constitutionalism: Historical Perspectives,” special issue of Law, Culture and the Humanities (forthcoming/2026). TBA.
Mikkel Flohr (ed.), Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema: Copenhagen, 2025). 403 pages.
Mikkel Flohr and Mathias Hein Jessen (eds.), Michel Foucault om teori og metode [Michel Foucault on Theory and Method] (DJØF Forlag: Copenhagen, 2024). 160 pages.
Mikkel Flohr and Allan Dreyer Hansen (eds.), “Folk, Folkestyre og Populisme” [The People, Democracy and Populism], special issue of Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie. 315 pages.
Mikkel Flohr, From the Critique of Heaven to the Critique of Earth: Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Theology (Ph.D.-thesis: Roskilde University, 2019). 422 pages.
Mikkel Flohr, Kasper Jacek, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen and Mathias Hein Jessen (eds.), Den Russiske Revolution [The Russian Revolution] (Forlaget Slagmark: Denmark, 2017). 350 pages.
Esben Bøgh Sørensen, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, and Mikkel Flohr, “Intermezzo: Post-kapitalisme” [Dossier on Post-capitalism], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 75 (2017): 137-174.
Arendt, Hannah, Vi flygtninge [We Refugees], ed. Mikkel Flohr and Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Forlaget Slagmark: Denmark, 2016/2017/2019/2024). 72 pages.
Other publications:
Mikkel Flohr, “Skitse af en politisk teori om undtagelsestilstande” [Outline of a Political Theory of States of Exception,” Paradoks – Tidsskrift for filosofi og teori: December 12, 2025.
Mikkel Flohr, “Review of Camila Vergara’s Systemic Corruption,” Critical Inquiry: December 11, 2025.
Mikkel Flohr, “Bemærkninger om David Graber og fænomenet skodjob” [Comments on David Graeber and the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs]. In Graeber, David, Om fænomenet skodjob (Copenhagen: Intet Forlag, forthcoming/2026).
Mikkel Flohr, “The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog: September 16, 2025.
Mikkel Flohr, et al, “Preface.” In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Problema: Copenhagen, 2025): xi-xx.
Mikkel Flohr, et al, “The Red Thread: Lessons from Organizing the Annual Conferences of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies over the past Ten Years.” In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Problema: Copenhagen, 2025): 47-66.
Mikkel Flohr, et al, “Select Bibliography of Recent Marxist Research in Denmark.” In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Problema: Copenhagen, 2025): 77-88.
Mikkel Flohr, “The Copenhagen School: Securitization,” Critical Legal Thinking: March 31, 2025.
Mikkel Flohr, “Tearing Down the Heavens: Marx’s Critique of Religion, Atheism, and Political Economy,” Political Theology Network: June 21, 2024.
Mikkel Flohr, “Hvad vi egentlig taler om, når vi taler om populisme” [What we Talk About, When we Talk About Populism] (kronik). Politiken: February 12, 2024.
Mikkel Flohr, “Key Concepts: Imagined Communities,” Critical Legal Thinking, 2023.
Mikkel Flohr, “Populisme: Mellem pøbelvælde og folkestyre” [Populism: Between Mob Rule and Democracy], Vid og Sans: October 31, 2022.
Mikkel Flohr and Laura Horn, “Om at genpolitisere kapitalismen og genlæse Marx i dag: Erfaringer fra sommerskolen ‘Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives’” [On the Repoliticization of Capitalism and Rereading Marx Today: Experiences from the Summer School “Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives”]. In Kapitalen på dansk: Marx-læsninger gennem 150 år, ed. Magnus Møller Ziegler, Anne Engelst Nørgaard, Jakob Bek-Thomsen, & Bertel Nygaard (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2022): 301-308.
Mikkel Flohr and Benjamin Ask-Popp Madsen, “Omrids af en historisk funderet politisk teori om rådsdemokrati. Del 1” [Outline of a Historically based Theory of Council Democracy] (double article). Turbulens, July 29, 2018.
Mikkel Flohr and Benjamin Ask-Popp Madsen, “Omrids af en historisk funderet politisk teori om rådsdemokrati. Del 2” [Outline of a Historically based Theory of Council Democracy] (double article). Turbulens, August 1, 2018.
Mikkel Flohr, “Kritik eller melankoli” [Critique or Melancholia?], Kultur og Klasse: 122 (2017): 27-30.
Mikkel Flohr, Kasper Jacek, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, and Mathias Hein Jessen, “Forord” [preface]. In Den Russiske Revolution, ed. Mikkel Flohr, Kasper Jacek, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, and Mathias Hein Jessen (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2017): 14-21.
Mikkel Flohr, Kasper Jacek, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, and Mathias Hein Jessen, “Introduktion” [Introduction]. In Den Russiske Revolution, ed. Mikkel Flohr, Kasper Jacek, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, and Mathias Hein Jessen (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2017): 22-61.
Mikkel Flohr, “Mellem sprog, filosofi og politik: overvejelser i forbindelse med min oversættelse af Hannah Arendts Vi flygtninge” [Between Language, Philosophy and Politics: Reflections on my Translation of Hannah Arendt’s We Refugees], Babelfisken – webtidsskrift om oversættelse: June 12, 2017.
Mikkel Flohr, “Flygtningekrisen’ er en politisk krise” [The Refugee Crisis is a Political Crisis], Baggrund: March 19, 2017.
Mikkel Flohr, “Efterord: En humanistisk stemme fra en inhuman tid” [Postscript: A Humanist Voice from an Inhumane Period]. In Hannah Arendt, Vi flygtninge, ed. Mikkel Flohr and Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2016): 37-60.
Mikkel Flohr, “Hinsides Kolonialismen: Om Frantz Fanons liv og tænkning” [Beyond Colonialism: On Frantz Fanon’s Life and Thought], Friktion – Magasin for Køn, Krop og Kultur: October 1, 2016.
Mikkel Flohr, “Review: In Defense of the Terror,” Contemporary Political Theory: 15, no. 2 (2016): 15-17.
Mikkel Flohr and Yannick Harrison, “Hvad betyder sorte liv?” [What is the meaning of Black Lives Matter?], Baggrund: September 23, 2016.
Mikkel Flohr and Yannick Harrison, “Historien spøger i britisk folkeafstemning om EU” [Historical Resonances in the British Referendum on the EU], Baggrund: June 19, 2016.
Mikkel Flohr, “Forestillede fællesskaber: En meget kort introduktion til Benedict Anderson” [Imagined Communities: A Very Short Introduction to Benedict Anderson], Baggrund: February 7, 2016.
Mikkel Flohr, “Demokratiet er sin egen værste fjende” [Democracy is its own Worst Enemy], Information: January 22, 2015.
Mikkel Flohr and Yannick Harrison, “Det græske valg: SYRIZA vinder men grækerne har allerede tabt” [The Greek Election: SYRIZA will win but the Greeks have already Lost], Ræson: January 23, 2015.
Media appearances (selection):
Isabella Balanchi, “Kunsten at indfange Arendt” [The Art of Capturing Arendt]. Kristeligt Dagblad: August 26, 2023.
Perry Macleod, “Ukraine-krig viser, at folk stadig vil dø for deres land. 40 år gammel teori forklarer hvorfor” [Ukraine War Shows that People are Still Willing to Die for Their Country. A 40-year-old Theory Explains Why]. Kristeligt Dagblad: April 11, 2023.
Tarek Omar and Mette Viborg, “Nationalstaten har altid svigtet flygtninge” [The Nation State has always let down Refugees]. Politiken: February 4, 2017.
Poya Pakzad, “Den Russiske Revolution” [The Russian Revolution]. Pakzads Polemik (Radio 24/7): December 17, 2017.
Translations:
Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra, Et globalt krigsregime [a Global War Regime] (Intet Forlag: Copenhagen, forthcoming/2026).
David Graeber, Om fænomenet skodjob [On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs] (Intet Forlag: Copenhagen, forthcoming/2026).
Bertel Nygaard, “Reading Capital in Danish: The Left and Marx’s Critique of Political Economy over 150 Years in Denmark.” In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Copenhagen: Problema, 2025): 3-16.
Søren Mau, “What is Alive and What is Dead in Danish Marxism? The Marxist Turn, Its Absent Fathers, and the Future Tasks of a Ruthless Critique of all that Exists” (translated with Dominique Routhier). In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Copenhagen: Problema, 2025): 17-40.
Esben Bøgh Sørensen, “From a Ripple to a Wave: How and Why We Need Marx and Marxism to Understand the World Today” (translated with Magnus Møller Ziegler). In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Copenhagen: Problema, 2025): 41-46.
Tithi Bhattacharya, “Reproduktion af liv og kapital under corona-krisen” [Social Reproduction Theory and Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Covid-19 Crisis], Eftertryk: May 24, 2020.
Angela Davis, “1459 dages modstand” [1459 Days of Resistance], Friktion – Magasin for Køn, Krop og Kultur, 2017.
Hannah Arendt, Vi flygtninge [We Refugees], ed. Mikkel Flohr and Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Forlaget Slagmark: Denmark, 2016). 72 pages.
David Graeber, “Om fænomenet skodjobs” [On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs], Det Ny Clarté: 10, no. 27 (2015): 5-8.
Richard Seymour, “Venstrefløjen har brug for feminisme” [The Left Needs Feminism], Kontradoxa, 2015.
Peter Hallward, “Folkets vilje” [The Will of the People], Kontradoxa, 2012.
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