Leviathan

After preliminary remarks on the general crisis situation, the review essay discusses the latest literature on the Ukraine war, the geopolitical revival of Carl Schmitt and the short-circuiting from Schmitt to Dugin and Putin.

This article discusses political ideas of solidarity in the refugee solidarity movement in the FRG of the 1980s, which has received little attention so far. On the basis of archival material, three currents are discussed in which the tensions and...

The widely stirring times of the student movement had it's peak in the end of the sixties with a deep delving into the thoughts of Marx and Freud. Out of this movement grew our scientific quarterly Leviathan. The editors didn't want to work inside a...

Focusing on the discourse of sociology the article considers the affective production of the „everyday“ aiming to make prevalent imaginaries of modern critique visible. Analyzing affective politics of normalization (Veralltäglichung)...

Apocalyptic is currently in vogue. In the history of religion, this has always been a diagnosis of the present, but with reference to the salvation that appears behind the doom. With the help of Hans Blumenberg, the function of apocalyptic metaphors...

The essay draws on social philosophy and affect theory to respond to Maser’s and Neckel’s disapproving perspective on safe(r) spaces and awareness. I especially criticize that their interpretation focusses on individual psychology and does not...

Drawing on recent controversies about satire and cancel culture, the article describes humor and comedy as a liminal form of legitimate critique, insofar as their critical potential is often denied by reference to their affective...

The paper asks about the sociological constitution of the practice of criticizing discrimination. Which attributions of meaning and which forms of acting underpin this practice? At the intersection of sociological approaches to rights and...