Leviathan

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...