Volume 48 (2025), Edition 4

In contemporary debates, ressentiment is conceptualized as a key affective driver of social conflicts. The disclosive posture of ressentiment is characterized by persistent, self-righteous embitterment over (perceived) injustice, connected to...

Humans are rational and emotional beings. Their individual and collective actions are often determined by conscious or unconscious feelings. This anthropological fact can be exploited politically. This happens, for example, in all those cases in...

Imagery and pictorial practices are extremely important for the modes of action and media representation of (animal rights) organizations with links to veganism. For example, images provide insights into the processes and structures of factory...

This article will explore sexual violence against female prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, with a particular focus on the affects involved. With reference to Primo Levi and Elfriede Jelinek, the extent to which such violence can be regarded as...

This article examines how belonging to the Alevi community profoundly shapes adolescent identity formation in post-migrant Germany. Focusing on Eylül, a young woman in her early twenties, it highlights how complex Alevi–Sunni relations – marked...

Aristotle believed that every living being carries the goal of self-development within itself: man is primarily a knower. As with Maslow, the prerequisite is participation in social prosperity. Self-realization requires acceptance of personal and...

The essay focuses on the relationship between solidarity and guilt from a conceptual-historical, political-theoretical and psychoanalytical perspective. Particular attention is paid to the conceptual ambiguity of guilt, whose socially integrative...