The journal Leviathan devotes itself to enlightenment and criticism in the social sciences. It publishes current research and debate on topics drawn from politics, culture, economics, philosophy, law and society. The journal is read by practitioners from academic research and education, politics and administration as well as communication and media. With its cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological approach it bridges the gap between theory, empirical evidence and political practice. website: www.leviathan.nomos.de
The reply to Lucas von Ramin outlines a form of democratic critique that is not based on normative concepts but rather emphasizes the political constitution of normative orders. For a political theory that focuses on such a democratic critique, as...
The assumption of contingency is based on a formal definition of being human that justifies why there can be no ultimate reasons in the political sphere. The difficulty of radical democratic approaches in demarcating from anti-emancipatory movements...
To examine the emancipatory potential of citizenship approaches in relation to urban social movements, I propose the concept of „horizontal citizenship“. For this purpose, I discuss approaches of performative and urban citizenship and question...
This article analyzes how the integration of Indigenous knowledge into a Eurocentric understanding of science reproduces epistemic violence. It uses global climate politics as example. The distinction between Indigenous and scientific knowledge is...
The contribution gives an overview of Harrison White’s theory of social structures and discusses it in the context of contemporary sociological theory. White focuses on social constellations on the meso-level. These are conceptualized as networks...
Since President Trump took office in 2025, US science has been under financial and political pressure: Billions in research funding cut, academic freedom, DEI programs and international mobility and collaborations curtailed. Universities are seen as...