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| Pessimistic realism and realistic pessimism JF Dienstag na, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| " The Pozsgay Affair": Historical Memory and Political Legitimacy JF Dienstag History and Memory 8 (1), 51-66, 1996 | 23 | 1996 |
| A storied shooting: Liberty Valance and the paradox of sovereignty JF Dienstag Political theory 40 (3), 290-318, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Building the temple of memory: Hegel's aesthetic narrative of history JF Dienstag The Review of politics 56 (4), 697-726, 1994 | 16 | 1994 |
| Pessimism: Philosophy JF Dienstag Ethics, Spirit, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| The pessimistic spirit JF Dienstag Philosophy & social criticism 25 (1), 71-95, 1999 | 12 | 1999 |
| Cinema Pessimism: A political theory of representation and reciprocity JF Dienstag Oxford University Press, USA, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Blade Runner’s humanism: Cinema and representation JF Dienstag Contemporary Political Theory 14, 101-119, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| Wittgenstein among the savages: Language, action and political theory JF Dienstag Polity 30 (4), 579-605, 1998 | 11 | 1998 |
| On political theory, the humanities, and the social sciences JF Dienstag Perspectives on Politics 14 (4), 1083-1089, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Cinema, democracy and perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue JF Dienstag Manchester University Press, 2016 | 9* | 2016 |
| Evils of Representation: Werewolves, Pessimism, and Realism in Europa and Melancholia JF Dienstag Theory & Event 18 (2), 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Review Essays: Man of Peace: Hobbes Between Politics and Science JF Dienstag Political Theory 37 (5), 694-705, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
| What is Living and What is Dead in the Interpretation of Hegel? JF Dienstag Political Theory 29 (2), 262-275, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
