Leviathan

Postcolonial criticism radicalizes earlier accusations of North-South inequality by not only criticizing economic, social and political polarization, but also making sociology itself the object of scrutiny. How can we respond to the associated...

Repressive desublimation is a key element of the Fordist form of governance for Marcuse: an institutionalized liberation of drives that serves social control. In my article, I develop a new concept of repressive desublimation to analyze the...

In 2023, Leviathan journal celebrated its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the first part of the article commemorates the founding and the founding editors of the journal. The founding editorial, which opened the first issue of the journal, is...

Social-ecological transformation has become an important concept in the face of profound planetary crises (loss of biodiversity, climate crisis). Recently, the needs for social scientific transformation research have become more clearly defined. We...

Unchallenged globalization seems to be a notion of the past. Instead of interdependence and integration, processes of deglobalization and decoupling currently capture our attention. We interpret this discursive decline of an idea previously dominant...