Leviathan

The article introduces the concept of „Verdeckung“ as a key category for the critical analysis of relations of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary democratic societies. In this context, contemporary democratic societies are understood as...

Closely linked to current conflicts on minority rights, anti-discrimination, and diversity, awareness has recently emerged as a specific practice of discrimination avoidance. Awareness is a political practice and an emotional program that aims to be...

Recent Arendt scholarship emphatically stresses that Arendt categorically rejected any distinction between the perspectives of participants and observers. This article, however, recalls those moments in her thought in which she affirmed and/or even...

Starting from Bourdieu’s theory of capital, this article discusses to what extent economically exploitable personal data can be seen as the foundation of an independent form of new digital capital. As a valuable and contested commodity, it unfolds...

This article deals with the worldview, motivation, and current politics of middle- and working-class white Americans on the populist right in the United States, specifically the significant subset of white evangelicals. Their politics are not solely...

The article analyzes the performance of Italyʼs Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli dʼItalia party, after five months in office. The countryʼs critical attitude towards Europe and the desire for a strong leader reflect a...

Bonapartism – frequently cited as an explanation for the rise of fascism during the interwar period – contains a paradox. Facing intensifying class conflicts, the »free« entrepreneurs willingly gave up their political liberties in order to...

Psychology and cognitive sciences empirically show what philosophy describes with a different vocabulary: humans also think in analogies, narratives and metaphors. The relevance of this for analyzing political processes is evident, since political...

Decolonization following World War II raised hopes that imperial rule might soon be a thing of the past. Against this background, social scientists put forward a notion of modern societies, according to which political evolution in modernity...

Ambiguities of right-wing discourse sometimes make it difficult to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate ways of speaking. Based on an understanding of the social that is always political, relational, affective, and praxeological, the article...

With regard to LGBTQ* families, legal equality in Germany lags behind social reality. This institutional lag still excludes families beyond the couple and cis norm from equal access to family policies. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 13...

In his sociological writings, Siegfried Kracauer claims not only to record reality in a documentary form but also to decipher it critically in its developmental tendencies. The analytical instruments and means of representation that Kracauer employs...

This paper answers the question raised by Claus Offe about the social reference of the common good, i.e., what kinds of entities qualify for being beneficiaries of common good-oriented policies. I reject two individualistic answers, for which the...