Leviathan

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...