Publications

Books

The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)

Edited Works

Violence,” a special issue of New Political Science 44, no. 1 (2022), including editor’s introduction, “Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue,” pp. 27-41. Republished as Kevin Duong, ed. Violence: A Reappraisal, New York: Routledge, 2023.

Journal Articles

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices of Interwar France,” History of European Ideas 49, no. 8 (2023): 1204-1219.

Freud sous les tropiques,” Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg no. 50 « Théorie Critique Transnationale » (2021): 13-52.

Universal Suffrage as Decolonization.” American Political Science Review 115, no. 2 (2021): 412-428.

The Left and Henri Bergson,” French Politics 18, no. 4 (2020): 359-379.

What Was Universal Suffrage?Theory & Event 23, no. 1 (2020): 29-65.

No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution,” Political Theory 47, no. 6 (2019): 809-835.

The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria,” The Review of Politics 80, no. 1 (2018): 31-55

The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought,” American Political Science Review 111, no. 4 (2017): 786-800.

“‘Does Democracy End in Terror?’ Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France,” Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 2 (2017): 537-563.

What Does Queer Theory Teach Us About Intersectionality?Politics & Gender 8, no. 3 (2012): 370-86.

Book Reviews and Review Essays

Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most. By Marcel Gauchet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.” Perspective on Politics 20, no. 4 (2022): 1442-1444.

Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès and Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa.” Philosophy and Global Affairs 2, no. 1 (2022): 213-219.

Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation. By Eva von Redecker.” Forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory.

Collins, Jacob. The Anthropological turn: French Political Thought After 1968. U of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.” Contemporary French Civilization 45, no. 3-4 (2020): 403-405.

Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. By Massimiliano Tomba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019″. Perspectives on Politics 18, no. 1 (2020): 237-238.

In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution. By Sophie Wahnich. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Verso, 2012,” The Journal of Politics 78, no. 4 (2016): e21-e22.

Magazine Writing and Short Essays

Broke Psychoanalysis. In Memory of Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic,” Parapraxis, Winter 2023/24. Online, January 8, 2024.

Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will,” The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. 5 (PDR Press, 2018). Online, November 9, 2017.

Occasional Writing, Podcasts

Podcast: Political Mythologies,” The Hedgehog Review, March 10, 2022.

Episode 3.6: Universal Suffrage: From Revolutionary Project to Minimalist Politics – Kevin Duong,” The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast, December 3, 2021.

The Virtues of Violence,” Political Theory Review, October 14, 2020.

The Virtues of Violence,” New Books Network, May 26, 2020.

Flora Tristan: Radical Socialist, Feminist, and First Internationalist,” Age of Revolutions, June 17, 2019.

Gender Trouble in France,” Interview with Camille Robcis. Jacobin, December 8, 2014.