Leviathan

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...

Christian Democratic parties are generally considered conservative. However, this article demonstrates that throughout its history, Christian democracy has incorporated a variety of conservative ideologies. On the one hand, the movement's self-image...

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...

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...

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...

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...