Leviathan

European Union law is currently undergoing a profound transformation: the Union values enshrined in Article 2 TEU are increasingly being construed as legal obligations of the Member States vis-à-vis the Union institutions. This Article-2 revolution...

This paper explores AI resignation among adolescents based on more than 20 workshops in German schools. AI resignation is an affective, socio-technical state marked by futility, powerlessness and a pessimistic future outlook. We outline four...

Jürgen Habermas was an essentially democratic thinker. For him, the public sphere was the very elixir of reason. With his formal pragmatics, he built a bridge between philosophy and social theory. For the latter, he sought a critical standard...

The article describes a new age of technological errors that has emerged since the late 1960s. Using two case studies, it examines whether these societies have sufficient error literacy. Further, it shows the consequences of its absence at the...

The article explores pedagogical and therapeutic programs of sexual self-determination as an ethopolitics of mutual responsibility. From a subjectivation-analytical perspective, we highlight how the figures of the boundary-competent endangered...

Empirical research on antisemitism has repeatedly found that more highly educated individuals are less likely to endorse antisemitic statements. This study examines whether this finding is partly an artifact of socially desirable responding. Drawing...

This article examines the effects of intensifying political pressure on Russian academics in the aftermath of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, focusing on how universities have become sites of ideological control and loyalty enforcement. Drawing on two...

Claus Offe (1940–2025) was one of the most important social scientists in the Federal Republic of Germany. In his studies of the capitalist welfare state and liberal democracy, he integrated political science and sociology. This article pays...

In this essay, I argue that money and monetary policy should not be understood as „de-linguistified“ phenomena, but rather as embedded in forms of communication that, following Habermas, can be described as systematically distorted. This view is...

The Trump administration’s January 2025 attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs was initiated and supported by a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College). The ruling prohibited...

How does a society emerge that revolves around capitalist work, and how does it stabilise? The article tackles these questions through Foucault’s largely over-looked lectures from the early 1970s. The constitution of labour power and the concept...

Judging from the discourse of actually existing conservatism in contemporary Germany (and beyond), one would assume that conservatism and capitalism are natural allies and that the ‚Swabian Housewife‘ is the ideal representative of a set of...

The heterogeneity of conservatism poses a scientific challenge. In this essay, the radical nature of the positions taken by the AfD and the Union parties is examined in detail with reference to the work of ideology researcher Michael Freeden,...

This contribution draws on a genealogical perspective to study the two Trump administrations’ policies relating to education. It traces post-war conservative traditions of anti-intellectualism and their interconnections with constructions of race....

Before the introduction of a nationwide minimum wage in Germany in 2015, German labor market economists largely agreed that this ‚social experiment‘ would result in significant job losses. However, accompanying research on the introduction of...

Time and again, the state claims to act rationally in the interest of its citizens. This is particularly evident at the municipal level, where local councils pursue allegedly “rational” objectives that lie beyond the constitutional distribution...

The sectoral basis of the urban-rural conflict today is a contrast between rural industry and the urban service economy. This contrast translates into two different policy modes: a logic of more, which seeks to overcome scarcity problems through...

The article discusses the similarities and differences between the New Right and New Conservatism, focusing primarily on the work of Patrick J. Deneen in the main section. From a history of ideas perspective, Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville...

Why did the Federal Republic of Germany participate in the UN mission in Somalia in 1993? On the basis of files from the Federal Foreign Office that have since been released, the article reconstructs that this decision can be explained less by the...