Oliver Nachtwey

Oliver Nachtwey, born in 1975, is Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel and an associated Scholar at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main. He was awarded the Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik for his work Die Abstiegsgesellschaft.

Awards (selection)

Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2023 (nomination) for Gekränkte Freiheit

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2025

Carolin Amlinger , Oliver NachtweyYear of Publication: 2025

Destructive Desires

Before he was re-elected, Donald Trump promised to do away with the guardrails of liberal democracy. And he was not elected despite this promise, but because of it. In their bestseller Offended Freedom, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey showed how libertarianism and authoritarianism could meld together. Two years later, reality confirmed their sociological diagnosis in the most...

Year of Publication: 2022

Carolin Amlinger , Oliver NachtweyYear of Publication: 2022

Offended Freedom

COVID deniers with flower necklaces, artists questioning scientific findings, journalists staging themselves as rebels against alleged gags: Libertarian authoritarians have found their way...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Polity), Korea (Eco Livres)

Year of Publication: 2017

The Great Regression

At the latest, since the effects of the financial crisis became clear and migration to the European Union began to grow, we have seen developments that many had thought were the phenomena of a...

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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Seix Barral), Catalan rights (Grup 62), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Korea (Sallim), Portugal (PRH – Objectiva), France (Premier Parallèle; Paperback Sublicense: Gallimard Folio), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Atlas|Contact), Czech Republic (Rybka), Romania (ART), Turkey (Metis)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (KX Critique & Humanism)

Year of Publication: 2016

Oliver NachtweyYear of Publication: 2016

Germany’s Hidden Crisis

The possibility for upward social mobility was one of the central promises of the »old« Germany – and indeed for the most part it held true: the VW Beetle became an Audi, the children of craftsmen...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Paidos Iberica), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), France (MSH)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Verso)

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News

Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2023: Nominations for Setz, Steidele, Amlinger & Nachtwey

Clemens J. Setz, Angela Steidele, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey have been nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2023.