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Anxiety and politics
(2017)
The English version of this article was first published in 1957. The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique republished it 60 years later in 2017. In this essay, Franz L. Neumann discusses the role of anxiety in politics. The article asks: How does it happen that the masses sell their souls to leaders and follow them blindly? On what does the power of attraction of leaders over masses rest? What are the historical situations in which this identification of leader and masses is successful, and what view of history do the men have who accept leaders? For answering these questions, the author suggests a combination of political economy, Freudian political psychology, and ideology critique. He sees anxiety in the context of alienation. Alienation is analysed as a multidimensional phenomenon consisting of economic, political, social and psychological alienation. Neumann introduces the notions of Caesaristic identification, institutionalised anxiety and persecutory anxiety. The essay shows that fascism remains an actual threat in capitalist societies.
There has been a burgeoning interest in the sociology of the Frankfurt School as well as the oeuvre of Theodor W. Adorno since the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. The objectives of this study are to both illustrate the enduring importance of Adorno and to provide an important theoretical outline in making sense of Trump’s 2016 United States presidential campaign. Using Adorno’s understudied textual analysis of the radio addresses of Martin Luther Thomas and data from Trump’s 2016 US presidential campaign, we find that Trump’s own discourse can be condensed into three of Adorno’s rhetorical devices: (1) the lone wolf device or anti-statism/pseudo-conservatism, reflecting his criticism of "special interests" and his appraisal of business and (self-)finance; (2) the movement device, which amounted to glorification of action; and (3) the exactitude of error device which amounted to xenophobic, ethnonationalist hyperbole.
Auf Grundlage einer interviewbasierten Studie zu heterosexuellen Paaren, in denen die Frau das Haupteinkommen verdient, beschäftigt sich der Beitrag mit milieuspezifischen Bewältigungsmustern prekärer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Vor dem Hintergrund der Erosion des Ernährermodells werden dabei Transformationen von Männlichkeit in den Blick genommen. Es wird die These entwickelt, dass sich mit dem Selbstverständnis als "Künstler" im hochqualifizierten individualisierten Milieu des urbanen Raums ein spezifisches Bewältigungsmuster von Prekarität herausgebildet hat.
In cancer medicine, particularly in drug research and development, structural changes in professionalism can be observed as examples. This field is characterized by a strong tension between social expectations concerning the control of existential risks to health, on the one hand, and strong commercial interests of a shareholder value-driven industry, on the other hand. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis, two subfields within the field of cancer medicine are reconstructed. One of these subfields—colon cancer therapy—could be interpreted as representing a renewal of the knowledge-power nexus. The pattern of the other subfield—brain tumour research—refers to a much more vulnerable professionalism. Both fields are characterized by development in professional work, which could be described with the hybridization concept. Therefore, the contrast between the two empirical examples presented still challenges the theoretical interpretation of contemporary professionalism.
Editorial
(2017)
Generationen der Liebe
(2010)
Rezension zu: Holger Herma: Liebe und Authentizität. Generationswandel in Paarbeziehungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2009. 286 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-531-16552-3, € 34,90
Abstract: Holger Herma untersucht den Wandel der gesellschaftlichen Liebenssemantik in der westdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Dabei ist sein besonderes Anliegen, den Einfluss generationsspezifischer Erfahrungsräume auf die Vorstellungen von Liebe und Partnerschaft empirisch nachzuvollziehen. In der qualitativen Interviewstudie steht das bisweilen spannungsvolle Verhältnis von Liebessemantik und Lebenspraxis, aber auch das Wechselspiel mit anderen gesellschaftlichen Diskursen und Transformationsprozessen, etwa im Geschlechterverhältnis im Mittelpunkt.