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 widely stirring times of the student movement had it's peak in the end of the sixties with a deep delving into the thoughts of Marx and Freud. Out of this movement grew our scientific quarterly Leviathan. The editors didn't want to work inside a...
In 2023, Leviathan journal celebrated its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the first part of the article commemorates the founding and the founding editors of the journal. The founding editorial, which opened the first issue of the journal, is...
Social-ecological transformation has become an important concept in the face of profound planetary crises (loss of biodiversity, climate crisis). Recently, the needs for social scientific transformation research have become more clearly defined. We...
This article discusses political ideas of solidarity in the refugee solidarity movement in the FRG of the 1980s, which has received little attention so far. On the basis of archival material, three currents are discussed in which the tensions and...
Unchallenged globalization seems to be a notion of the past. Instead of interdependence and integration, processes of deglobalization and decoupling currently capture our attention. We interpret this discursive decline of an idea previously dominant...
After preliminary remarks on the general crisis situation, the review essay discusses the latest literature on the Ukraine war, the geopolitical revival of Carl Schmitt and the short-circuiting from Schmitt to Dugin and Putin.