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It has now been more than 100 years since the Russian Revolution began. The student movement of 1968, on the other hand, is more present, since closer, in our historical consciousness. Time then, to consider the events of 1917 through the prism of 1968 and bring both revolutions into a relationship of mutual critique. While 1917 was focused on the nation, 1968 targeted the individual. In the...

On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical...

»Everything must change for everything to remain the same.« The famous quote from the novel The Leopard is somewhat of an unofficial motto of moderate conservatism. Parties like the CDU came to terms with change and proved to be anchors of stability. Today, it is no longer certain that the centre-right will hold: Do its representatives continue to rely on balance...

When a new smartphone is released, queues of people form in front of the palatial shops in the early hours of the morning. This goes to show that nowadays it’s not only about the practical...

The suffering of the industrial labour force in the 19th century increased the demand for social justice and fanned the fear of a revolution. As a result, Prussia was the first major power in Europe to introduce progressive personal income tax. With it began the revolution of equality and the transition to social-liberal governmentality, which did prove to be successful. With that, the growing...

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the only successful insurrection of slaves and founded the third constitutional state of the modern world with the Republic of Haiti. Despite that, it often disappears behind the American and the French Revolutions in the history books and in philosophy.

Following postcolonial and feminist political theory, Jeanette Ehrmann presents an...

People are justificatory beings; they orient themselves according to reasons. The rules and institutions with which they comply are based on historically formed justification-narratives and...

Should we actively support processes of democratisation in other parts of the world? With the end of the cold war, liberal democracy appeared to be ready to spread throughout the world. Established democracies attempted to support this process. But since the beginning of the new century there has been a backlash and ever more often there are accusations of imperialism.

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