Thomas Biebricher

Thomas Biebricher, born in 1974, is Heisenberg Professor of Political Theory, History of Ideas and Economic Theory at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2018, his study Geistig-moralische Wende. Die Erschöpfung des deutschen Konservatismus caused a sensation.

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2025

Upper Right

When Trump was elected president the first time around, a Richard Rorty quote from 1998 went viral. If the cultural left continued ignoring issues of material relevance, argued the noted philosopher, »something will crack«. Poorer voters would look for a strongman, and a return to Sadism seemed to be looming on the horizon. As prophetic as this prognosis was, the focus on the »woke« left and the...

Year of Publication: 2023

Thomas BiebricherYear of Publication: 2023

Centre/Right

»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...