Leviathan

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...