Leviathan

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...