Lars Rensmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Rensmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Rensmann |
| SIGNATURE | RENSMANN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5762-8809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Politischer Antisemitismus im postfaktischen Zeitalter: Formen und Ursachen in Demokratien des 21. Jahrhunderts
Antisemitism has undoubtedly returned to the public sphere. This book offers the first comparative analysis of the resurgence of antisemitism as an object of political mobilisation in liberal democracies — and how this relates to disinformation in a post-factual age. The book examines how the political and cultural opportunity structures for antisemitism have changed in democratic societies and why it is politically deployed today by various part…
Die große Lüge 2.0
SCHWERPUNKT zum Thema Antisemitismus: Eine programmatische Einleitung zu diesem Schwerpunkt von Alexandra Colligs und Philip Hogh findet sich auf den Seiten 93–108, in der auch die Beiträge des Schwerpunktes von Lars Rensmann, Niklas Lämmel, Johanna Bach, Karin Stögner, Christine Achinger und Julia Christ vorgestellt werden
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past
The goal of this introduction to the special issue is threefold. First, we map a nascent research field on connections between populism and the past and, in so doing, point to gaps in existing work. Second, we develop the contours of an integrated analytical framework that, addressing these gaps, reconstructs the relationship between populism and the past comparatively and on multiple levels. Our approach pays special attention to the interlinked…
Illusions of Sovereignty: Understanding Populist Crowds with Hannah Arendt
This article reconstructs Hannah Arendt's theoretical arguments in relation to current authoritarian-populist crowds, which can be understood as organized mobs of the twenty-first century. Drawn from all classes and originating in societal and political disenfranchisement, in Arendt's understanding they are rebellious nihilists who falsely believe they represent the people as a whole while they exclude any citizens who do not share their tribal n…
Autoritarismus und Demokratie: Politische Theorie und Kultur in der globalen Moderne
Autoritarismus und Demokratie untersucht die vorherrschenden politischen Ordnungsformen in unserer globalisierten Moderne in zwei Perspektiven: einerseits aus der Sicht der normativen und politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte, andererseits im Blick einer empirisch gesättigten, vergleichenden politischen Kulturforschung. Dabei werden sowohl grundlegende Klassiker der modernen politischen Theorie (von Hannah Arendt über die Frankfurter Schule bis…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
The Pandemic Factor: The Covid-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Federal Election Campaign
This article examines how and why the covid-19 pandemic featured as a central issue in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Bundestag election campaign. Using a wide range of political communication tools, the radical right party's opposition to public health policies against the pandemic ranged from a critique of hygienic measures to hosting coronavirus denialism and conspiracy myths suggesting that "the elite" had manufactured "corona hysteria" t…
Das alte Denken der Neuen Rechten: Die langen Linien der antiliberalen Revolte
Individuelle Freiheiten, demokratische Werte, Weltoffenheit und kulturelle Vielfalt stehen weltweit unter Druck. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen die Gegner der liberalen Demokratie in den Fokus. In den Essays des Bandes werden die Positionen der antiliberalen Vordenker einer fundierten Analyse unterzogen.
The Contemporary Globalization of Political Antisemitism: Three Political Spaces and the Global Mainstreaming of the “Jewish Question” in the Twenty-First Century
Article The Contemporary Globalization of Political Antisemitism: Three Political Spaces and the Global Mainstreaming of the “Jewish Question” in the Twenty-First Century was published on March 17, 2020 in the journal Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (volume 3, issue 1).
Claudia Leeb’s The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence with David W. McIvor, Lars Rensmann, and Claudia Leeb
Divided We Stand
Germany continues to face an inter-regional political divide between the East and the West three decades after unification. Most strikingly, this divide is expressed in different party systems. The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany and the left-wing populist Left Party are considerably more successful in the eastern regions, while German centrist parties perform worse (and shrink faster at the ballot-box) than in the West. The article d…
Radical Right-Wing Populists in Parliament
Founded just five years ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents the biggest opposition party in the German parliament. This article addresses three questions in European comparative perspective: What is the nature of the AfD as a relevant political party in the Bundestag? What explains its rise and popularity? What is the party's behavior and impact in parliament, and on German politics in general? Examining platforms, the article first…
The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Although the Frankfurt School—most prominently associated with Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Leo Löwenthal and Herbert Marcuse—represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the 20th century, its multi-faceted work on modern antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of Unreason fills this gap. The book provides the first systematic study of the Frankfurt School’s social, psychological and political resea…
The Noisy Counter-Revolution: Understanding the Cultural Conditions and Dynamics of Populist Politics in Europe in the Digital Age
The article argues for a cultural turn in the study of populist politics in Europe. Integrating insights from three fields—political sociology, political psychology, and media studies—a new, multi-disciplinary framework is proposed to theorize particular cultural conditions favorable to the electoral success of populist parties. Through this lens, the fourth wave of populism should be viewed as a “noisy”, anti-cosmopolitan counter-revolution in d…
Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno: Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente, Querido: Amsterdam 1947, 275 S. (zit. n. der Neuausgabe 1969)
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York 1951, 477 S. (dt. Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, Europäische Verlagsanstalt: Frankfurt 1955, 782 S.)
Hannah Arendts (1906–1975) Origins of Totalitarianism ist eines der frühsten und bis heute maßgeblichen Standardwerke zur »totalen« respektiven »totalitären« Herrschaft. Arendts Studie, die Totalitarismus als genuin neue Herrschaftsform im Kontext unterschiedlicher moderner Entwicklungen versteht, gilt auch jenseits der Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften als eines der einflussreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist zugleich das erste Hauptwe…
National Sovereigntism and Global Constitutionalism: An Adornian Cosmopolitan Critique
There are two dominant schools of thought addressing problems of cosmopolitanism and (international) conflict: democratic national sovereigntism, inspired by Hegel, and global constitutionalism, inspired by Kant and reformulated by Habermas. This paper develops a third position by reading Adorno's critique of both theoretical traditions. Rather than compromising between these camps, Adorno triangulates between them. Critically illuminating their …
Reading Arendt in Tehran: On extraordinary democratic politics and the failure of revolutions
This article seeks to understand the 2009 Iranian anti-government uprising through an Arendtian lens, and re-read Arendt's conceptions of power, civil disobedience and revolution in the light of this event. Generating non-institutionalized, non-regularized public spaces both within and beyond the limits of the established order, diverse communities reconstituted an Iranian multitude that temporarily shifted the power from the regime to the street…
The Reluctant Cosmopolitanization of European Party Politics: The Case of Germany
While still vastly underrepresented and lagging behind political representation in several other European democracies, more ethnic minorities and immigrants have entered the German Bundestag in 2013 than ever before. This is one of several indicators of Germany's political departure from hegemonic ethnic self-understandings, signaling the nation's complicated, partly still-contested evolution towards political self-conceptions as a “country of im…
Volatile Counter-Cosmopolitans: Explaining the Electoral Performance of Radical Right Parties in Poland and Eastern Germany
Despite several breakthroughs that indicate radical right parties' significant electoral potential, they remain highly volatile players in both Poland and eastern Germany. This is puzzling because radical right competitors can benefit from favorable politico-cultural conditions shaped by postcommunist legacies. The electoral markets in Poland and the eastern German Länder show low levels of affective party identification and low levels of politic…
Politics and Resentment: Antisemitism and Counter-Cosmopolitanism in the European Union
Democratic polities continue to be faced with politics of resentment. Along with resurgent counter-cosmopolitanism and anti-immigrant prejudice, various political agents have mobilized old and modernized antisemitism in European democracies. The first comparative study of its kind, this book rigorously examines the contemporary relevance of antisemitism and other politicized resentments in the context of the European Union and beyond. Presenting …
Political Terror in the Age of Global Modernity: Adorno's Critical Theory of Totalitarianism Revisited
This article explores Adorno's critical theory of totalitarianism in the age of global modernity. According to his model, modern totalitarian ideologies, regimes and movements are distinct in their ‘ruthless arbitrariness’. They aim at exterminating ‘others’ and, ultimately, at eradicating the very idea of freedom by means of unbound terror. Totalitarianism cannot be adequately explained by or reduced to issues of culture and religion. In particu…
Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seat…
Europeanism and Americanism in the Age of Globalization: Hannah Arendt’s Reflections on Europe and America and Implications for a Post-National Identity of the EU Polity
The article examines Hannah Arendt’s analysis of ‘pan-nationalist Europeanism’ and anti-Americanism which may serve inherently problematic identity-generating functions for the European project. For Arendt, this specific form of Europeanism is often intimately linked to mobilizations of widely spread fears of global sociocultural and economic modernization, which is frequently perceived as ‘Americanization’. In addition, however, those fears may …
From High Hopes To On-Going Defeat: The New Extreme Right's Political Mobilization and its National Electoral Failure in Germany
German extreme Right parties have increased their political and electoral significance in recent years, in particular through some considerable regional successes in the East. However, in spite of noticeable nation-wide gains by the NPD in the Bundestag election, the extreme Right suffered from another defeat. Looking at the interplay of supply side and demand side factors, the article examines the transformations and continuities of extreme Righ…
Radical Right-Wing Populists in Parliament
Founded just five years ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents the biggest opposition party in the German parliament. This article addresses three questions in European comparative perspective: What is the nature of the AfD as a relevant political party in the Bundestag? What explains its rise and popularity? What is the party's behavior and impact in parliament, and on German politics in general? Examining platforms, the article first…
The Noisy Counter-Revolution: Understanding the Cultural Conditions and Dynamics of Populist Politics in Europe in the Digital Age
The article argues for a cultural turn in the study of populist politics in Europe. Integrating insights from three fields—political sociology, political psychology, and media studies—a new, multi-disciplinary framework is proposed to theorize particular cultural conditions favorable to the electoral success of populist parties. Through this lens, the fourth wave of populism should be viewed as a “noisy”, anti-cosmopolitan counter-revolution in d…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past
The goal of this introduction to the special issue is threefold. First, we map a nascent research field on connections between populism and the past and, in so doing, point to gaps in existing work. Second, we develop the contours of an integrated analytical framework that, addressing these gaps, reconstructs the relationship between populism and the past comparatively and on multiple levels. Our approach pays special attention to the interlinked…
Divided We Stand
Germany continues to face an inter-regional political divide between the East and the West three decades after unification. Most strikingly, this divide is expressed in different party systems. The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany and the left-wing populist Left Party are considerably more successful in the eastern regions, while German centrist parties perform worse (and shrink faster at the ballot-box) than in the West. The article d…
Europeanism and Americanism in the Age of Globalization: Hannah Arendt’s Reflections on Europe and America and Implications for a Post-National Identity of the EU Polity
The article examines Hannah Arendt’s analysis of ‘pan-nationalist Europeanism’ and anti-Americanism which may serve inherently problematic identity-generating functions for the European project. For Arendt, this specific form of Europeanism is often intimately linked to mobilizations of widely spread fears of global sociocultural and economic modernization, which is frequently perceived as ‘Americanization’. In addition, however, those fears may …
The Reluctant Cosmopolitanization of European Party Politics: The Case of Germany
While still vastly underrepresented and lagging behind political representation in several other European democracies, more ethnic minorities and immigrants have entered the German Bundestag in 2013 than ever before. This is one of several indicators of Germany's political departure from hegemonic ethnic self-understandings, signaling the nation's complicated, partly still-contested evolution towards political self-conceptions as a “country of im…
National Sovereigntism and Global Constitutionalism: An Adornian Cosmopolitan Critique
There are two dominant schools of thought addressing problems of cosmopolitanism and (international) conflict: democratic national sovereigntism, inspired by Hegel, and global constitutionalism, inspired by Kant and reformulated by Habermas. This paper develops a third position by reading Adorno's critique of both theoretical traditions. Rather than compromising between these camps, Adorno triangulates between them. Critically illuminating their …
Illusions of Sovereignty: Understanding Populist Crowds with Hannah Arendt
This article reconstructs Hannah Arendt's theoretical arguments in relation to current authoritarian-populist crowds, which can be understood as organized mobs of the twenty-first century. Drawn from all classes and originating in societal and political disenfranchisement, in Arendt's understanding they are rebellious nihilists who falsely believe they represent the people as a whole while they exclude any citizens who do not share their tribal n…
The Pandemic Factor: The Covid-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Federal Election Campaign
This article examines how and why the covid-19 pandemic featured as a central issue in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Bundestag election campaign. Using a wide range of political communication tools, the radical right party's opposition to public health policies against the pandemic ranged from a critique of hygienic measures to hosting coronavirus denialism and conspiracy myths suggesting that "the elite" had manufactured "corona hysteria" t…
Claudia Leeb’s The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence with David W. McIvor, Lars Rensmann, and Claudia Leeb
Reading Arendt in Tehran: On extraordinary democratic politics and the failure of revolutions
This article seeks to understand the 2009 Iranian anti-government uprising through an Arendtian lens, and re-read Arendt's conceptions of power, civil disobedience and revolution in the light of this event. Generating non-institutionalized, non-regularized public spaces both within and beyond the limits of the established order, diverse communities reconstituted an Iranian multitude that temporarily shifted the power from the regime to the street…
Holocaust Memory and Mass Media in Contemporary Germany: Reflections on the Goldhagen Debate
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, provoked an unprecedented controversy in German society over the antisemitic origins of the Holocaust. The enormous publicity Goldhagen received in the German media, though, went along with almost unanimously hostile attacks against him and his work. Comparing the book's real content with the fierce rejection it received in the public sphere demonstrates that the nature of the debate i…
Holocaust Memory and Mass Media in Contemporary Germany: Reflections on the Goldhagen Debate
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, provoked an unprecedented controversy in German society over the antisemitic origins of the Holocaust. The enormous publicity Goldhagen received in the German media, though, went along with almost unanimously hostile attacks against him and his work. Comparing the book's real content with the fierce rejection it received in the public sphere demonstrates that the nature of the debate i…
The New Politics of Prejudice: Comparative Perspectives on Extreme Right Parties in European Democracies
Piero Ignazi, Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Cas Mudde, The Ideology of the Extreme Right (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003) Martin Schain, Aristide Zolberg, and Patrick Hossay, eds., Shadows over Europe: The Development and Impact of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
Adorno at Ground Zero
Lars Rensmann untersucht die Aktualität Adornos mit Blick auf den Terroranschlag am 11. September 2001 in New York
Demokratie und Judenbild: Antisemitismus in der Politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Die Studie hat das Ziel, die qualitative politische Kulturforschung zum Problem des Antisemitismus und zu politischen Mobilisierungschancen von Judenfeindlichkeit in der demokratischen Gesellschaft neu zu fundieren. Vor dem Hintergrund multifaktorieller Modelle werden Parameter und Deutungsmuster entworfen, mit denen die politischen und diskursiven Gelegenheitsstrukturen antisemitischer Mobilisierungsversuche und ? Judenbilder' in der bundesrepub…
Europeanism and Americanism in the Age of Globalization: Hannah Arendt’s Reflections on Europe and America and Implications for a Post-National Identity of the EU Polity
The article examines Hannah Arendt’s analysis of ‘pan-nationalist Europeanism’ and anti-Americanism which may serve inherently problematic identity-generating functions for the European project. For Arendt, this specific form of Europeanism is often intimately linked to mobilizations of widely spread fears of global sociocultural and economic modernization, which is frequently perceived as ‘Americanization’. In addition, however, those fears may …
From High Hopes To On-Going Defeat: The New Extreme Right's Political Mobilization and its National Electoral Failure in Germany
German extreme Right parties have increased their political and electoral significance in recent years, in particular through some considerable regional successes in the East. However, in spite of noticeable nation-wide gains by the NPD in the Bundestag election, the extreme Right suffered from another defeat. Looking at the interplay of supply side and demand side factors, the article examines the transformations and continuities of extreme Righ…
Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seat…
Politics and Resentment: Antisemitism and Counter-Cosmopolitanism in the European Union
Democratic polities continue to be faced with politics of resentment. Along with resurgent counter-cosmopolitanism and anti-immigrant prejudice, various political agents have mobilized old and modernized antisemitism in European democracies. The first comparative study of its kind, this book rigorously examines the contemporary relevance of antisemitism and other politicized resentments in the context of the European Union and beyond. Presenting …
Political Terror in the Age of Global Modernity: Adorno's Critical Theory of Totalitarianism Revisited
This article explores Adorno's critical theory of totalitarianism in the age of global modernity. According to his model, modern totalitarian ideologies, regimes and movements are distinct in their ‘ruthless arbitrariness’. They aim at exterminating ‘others’ and, ultimately, at eradicating the very idea of freedom by means of unbound terror. Totalitarianism cannot be adequately explained by or reduced to issues of culture and religion. In particu…
Volatile Counter-Cosmopolitans: Explaining the Electoral Performance of Radical Right Parties in Poland and Eastern Germany
Despite several breakthroughs that indicate radical right parties' significant electoral potential, they remain highly volatile players in both Poland and eastern Germany. This is puzzling because radical right competitors can benefit from favorable politico-cultural conditions shaped by postcommunist legacies. The electoral markets in Poland and the eastern German Länder show low levels of affective party identification and low levels of politic…
Reading Arendt in Tehran: On extraordinary democratic politics and the failure of revolutions
This article seeks to understand the 2009 Iranian anti-government uprising through an Arendtian lens, and re-read Arendt's conceptions of power, civil disobedience and revolution in the light of this event. Generating non-institutionalized, non-regularized public spaces both within and beyond the limits of the established order, diverse communities reconstituted an Iranian multitude that temporarily shifted the power from the regime to the street…
The Reluctant Cosmopolitanization of European Party Politics: The Case of Germany
While still vastly underrepresented and lagging behind political representation in several other European democracies, more ethnic minorities and immigrants have entered the German Bundestag in 2013 than ever before. This is one of several indicators of Germany's political departure from hegemonic ethnic self-understandings, signaling the nation's complicated, partly still-contested evolution towards political self-conceptions as a “country of im…
Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno: Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente, Querido: Amsterdam 1947, 275 S. (zit. n. der Neuausgabe 1969)
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York 1951, 477 S. (dt. Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, Europäische Verlagsanstalt: Frankfurt 1955, 782 S.)
Hannah Arendts (1906–1975) Origins of Totalitarianism ist eines der frühsten und bis heute maßgeblichen Standardwerke zur »totalen« respektiven »totalitären« Herrschaft. Arendts Studie, die Totalitarismus als genuin neue Herrschaftsform im Kontext unterschiedlicher moderner Entwicklungen versteht, gilt auch jenseits der Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften als eines der einflussreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist zugleich das erste Hauptwe…
National Sovereigntism and Global Constitutionalism: An Adornian Cosmopolitan Critique
There are two dominant schools of thought addressing problems of cosmopolitanism and (international) conflict: democratic national sovereigntism, inspired by Hegel, and global constitutionalism, inspired by Kant and reformulated by Habermas. This paper develops a third position by reading Adorno's critique of both theoretical traditions. Rather than compromising between these camps, Adorno triangulates between them. Critically illuminating their …
The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Although the Frankfurt School—most prominently associated with Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Leo Löwenthal and Herbert Marcuse—represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the 20th century, its multi-faceted work on modern antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of Unreason fills this gap. The book provides the first systematic study of the Frankfurt School’s social, psychological and political resea…
The Noisy Counter-Revolution: Understanding the Cultural Conditions and Dynamics of Populist Politics in Europe in the Digital Age
The article argues for a cultural turn in the study of populist politics in Europe. Integrating insights from three fields—political sociology, political psychology, and media studies—a new, multi-disciplinary framework is proposed to theorize particular cultural conditions favorable to the electoral success of populist parties. Through this lens, the fourth wave of populism should be viewed as a “noisy”, anti-cosmopolitan counter-revolution in d…
Radical Right-Wing Populists in Parliament
Founded just five years ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents the biggest opposition party in the German parliament. This article addresses three questions in European comparative perspective: What is the nature of the AfD as a relevant political party in the Bundestag? What explains its rise and popularity? What is the party's behavior and impact in parliament, and on German politics in general? Examining platforms, the article first…
Divided We Stand
Germany continues to face an inter-regional political divide between the East and the West three decades after unification. Most strikingly, this divide is expressed in different party systems. The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany and the left-wing populist Left Party are considerably more successful in the eastern regions, while German centrist parties perform worse (and shrink faster at the ballot-box) than in the West. The article d…
Das alte Denken der Neuen Rechten: Die langen Linien der antiliberalen Revolte
Individuelle Freiheiten, demokratische Werte, Weltoffenheit und kulturelle Vielfalt stehen weltweit unter Druck. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen die Gegner der liberalen Demokratie in den Fokus. In den Essays des Bandes werden die Positionen der antiliberalen Vordenker einer fundierten Analyse unterzogen.
The Contemporary Globalization of Political Antisemitism: Three Political Spaces and the Global Mainstreaming of the “Jewish Question” in the Twenty-First Century
Article The Contemporary Globalization of Political Antisemitism: Three Political Spaces and the Global Mainstreaming of the “Jewish Question” in the Twenty-First Century was published on March 17, 2020 in the journal Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (volume 3, issue 1).
Claudia Leeb’s The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence with David W. McIvor, Lars Rensmann, and Claudia Leeb
Autoritarismus und Demokratie: Politische Theorie und Kultur in der globalen Moderne
Autoritarismus und Demokratie untersucht die vorherrschenden politischen Ordnungsformen in unserer globalisierten Moderne in zwei Perspektiven: einerseits aus der Sicht der normativen und politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte, andererseits im Blick einer empirisch gesättigten, vergleichenden politischen Kulturforschung. Dabei werden sowohl grundlegende Klassiker der modernen politischen Theorie (von Hannah Arendt über die Frankfurter Schule bis…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
The Pandemic Factor: The Covid-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Federal Election Campaign
This article examines how and why the covid-19 pandemic featured as a central issue in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Bundestag election campaign. Using a wide range of political communication tools, the radical right party's opposition to public health policies against the pandemic ranged from a critique of hygienic measures to hosting coronavirus denialism and conspiracy myths suggesting that "the elite" had manufactured "corona hysteria" t…
Political science (23 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Democracy (10 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (10 works)