Volume 17 (2020), Edition 1

Starting from a case study (on a fatal stabbing in Chemnitz, Germany in August 2018, and the violent riots that followed), the article reflects on the relationship between democracy and judgment in the digital era: the rapid transformation of rumors...

The »philologist king« designates a neglected figure of early nationalism. Jacob Grimm argued that philological knowledge was vital to legitimate rule, since only the study of the history of language and of grammar could uncover the form of the...

Contemporary representations of fifteenth-century political thought still rely centrally on Quentin Skinner’s neo-republican paradigm. In recent years, however, historians have increasingly criticized the Cambridge School for forcing Medieval and...

Current research on violence runs the risk of developing a visibility bias, i.e. of devoting disproportionate attention to phenomena of violence that are publicly accessible and audiovisually recorded. Such research exacerbates the fundamental...

Domestic violence is always part of the history of a relationship involving different parties. In such a context, violence develops forms of obstinacy that facilitate and restrict the actions and interpretations of the participants in certain ways....

Family life is still characterized by high levels of violence, even though violent behavior is now extensively socially ostracized and legally sanctioned. Against the backdrop of the existing literature, which tends to be exclusively descriptive and...

The article argues that research into the sexual abuse of children calls for a comprehensive and multidimensional understanding of violence. This argument is based specifically on current theoretical considerations about childhood. The guiding...

Recent German research on violence has become increasingly unsure of its explanatory claims. This essay addresses the argument that explanations of violence tend to serve as reassurances of society’s conception of itself as averse to violence and...

Phenomena of political Islam, especially western jihadism, are generally explained in terms of the concept of radicalization. The article shows how the radicalization paradigm shapes our understanding of the topic and restricts it in specific ways....

Édouard Louis writes about his alienation from the proletarian milieu of his birth, about gay desire and homophobia and his hatred of French politics. For the reviewer, however, his autobiographical novels History of Violence and Who Killed My...