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Political Theory and History of Ideas

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Political Theory and History of Ideas

Our Research Focus

This larger research area centers around Modern Political Theory as well as the History of Political Thought from the 19th century until today. Our approach is primarily comparative-systematizing, conceptual, historical and discourse-analytical. Four integrating focal areas tie together the researchers’ individual projects:

  • International and global political thought (i. e. questions of international political order, ranging from federalism to imperialism)
  • Political semantics, their contestation and communication in political images and metaphors (political iconology and metaphorology)
  • Conservative, authoritarian and anti-democratic political thought
  • A regional focus on Englisch, Russian, and German-language debates

Current Projects

Political Finitude: Do political orders need an expiration date (Volkswagen-funded project 2022-2023)

Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Duration: 2022 – 2023

Funding Institution: Volkswagen Foundation, Funding line „Originalitätsverdacht“, 2022-2024

Project Description:

Is the ending of political orders, then, something feasible and desirable – and who gets to decide over this finitude? Under which conditions and with which justifications do political systems with pre-designed time limits develop? Is there a logic of political finitude? The project ventures into the intersection between the history of political thought and systematic political theory, attempting to combine the analysis of concrete finite orders with a typology of theoretical justification of such temporary designs. 

Russian Neo-Eurasianism and imperial conflict theory

Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Duration: 2023 – 2027

Funding Institution: DFG Research Group „Aitiologies“, 2023-2027

Project Description:

The research project investigates the temporal-justifying, i.e. aitiological narrative patterns of the ideological current of Russian neo-Eurasianism. The aim is to examine the narrative-explanatory assertion of a conflict between Eurasia and the West that originated in the Middle Ages and has shaped it ever since – based on the thesis that neo-Eurasianism must be understood not only as a geopolitical movement, but as an aitiological narrative of conflict. On the one hand, the project focuses on the narrative-aitiological means of checking the plausibility of this conflict (including iconographic strategies and traditional narratives of the history of ideas) and, on the other hand, on its role in the justification of an aggressive imperial programmatics.

Max Weber’s theory of democratic state financing

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Conceptual history of taxation

Project Description:
In his research, Sebastian Huhnholz asks for theoretical connections between the political constitution and the economic origins of the state budget. They are neither exhausted in the famous slogan “No taxation without representation!” nor does fiscal democracy necessarily run towards this modus, as the history of political ideas and comparative history of reality shows. Almost all the classics were interested in the origin, collection, organisation, utilisation and administration of material government and public funds. With their help, it is possible to re-examine democratic knowledge about the ‘treasury and constitution’ in the face of today’s financial crises, the challenge of ecological restructuring, the relativisation of the tax state, and much more.

A history of accelerationist thought (working title)

Project Description:

Laila Riedmiller’s doctoral project examines temporal strategies of the “New Right”, particularly their relation to and history of accelerationist thought. Simultaneously,the relationship between left and right accelerationism is examined from a comparative perspective.

History of radical conservative ideas

Project Description:

In his PhD thesis, Tobias Adler-Bartels systematically reconstructs the radicalisation of conservative thought and analyses the change in the morphology of German conservatism from the Vormärz to the Weimar Republic, following contemporary ideology research. As the political-theological paradigm of the Prussian Altkonservatismus came increasingly into crisis at the end of the 19th century, radical conservative protagonists adapted new instances of a supra-individual and organic-evolutionary justification of the political-social order in recourse to Volk and Nation, and in doing so they developed an intransigent self-understanding that profiled itself in resolute opposition to liberalism.

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Tobias Adler-Bartels

Tobias Adler-Bartels

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Huhnholz

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Huhnholz

Dr. Alexander Kruska

Dr. Alexander Kruska

Laila Riedmiller

Laila Riedmiller

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