The subject of this book is widely taught and publicly discussed under the headlines racism, populism, and white supremacy. Authoritarianism has for long been a well-established research topic. This study, with its focus on a variety of political attitudes in Germany and a theoretical background in Critical Theory and psychoanalytic social psychology, is rather unique.

The subject of this book is widely taught and publicly discussed under the headlines racism, populism, and white supremacy. Authoritarianism has for long been a well-established research topic. This study, with its focus on a variety of political attitudes in Germany and a theoretical background in Critical Theory and psychoanalytic social psychology, is rather unique.

This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical and methodological issues in relation to the question of right-wing extremism. In Anglo-American academia, the term is often associated with fairly rare phenomena in the form of extremist political groups, whereas in Germany the term is often applied to a wide range of attitudes, behaviours and parties, including those which operate more within the mainstream political sphere. Covering an array of sub-fields such as right-wing terrorism, iconography of the extreme right and the Germanophone discussion on the differentiation of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism, the authors account not only for the centrality of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germanophone research, but also point at its often overlooked relevance for the phenomenon in general. Offering an important insight into the nuanced definition of right-wing extremism across Europe and enhancing both international debate and cross-country comparative research, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching extremism, German politics and European politics more generally.

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx's concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud's theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.

This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical and methodological issues in relation to the question of right-wing extremism. In Anglo-American academia, the term is often associated with fairly rare phenomena in the form of extremist political groups, whereas in Germany the term is often applied to a wide range of attitudes, behaviours and parties, including those which operate more within the mainstream political sphere. Covering an array of sub-fields such as right-wing terrorism, iconography of the extreme right and the Germanophone discussion on the differentiation of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism, the authors account not only for the centrality of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germanophone research, but also point at its often overlooked relevance for the phenomenon in general. Offering an important insight into the nuanced definition of right-wing extremism across Europe and enhancing both international debate and cross-country comparative research, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching extremism, German politics and European politics more generally.

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx s concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud s theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine."

Spätestens mit den Debatten zu einer zunehmenden Polarisierung der deutschen und anderer europäischer Gesellschaften rückt die Frage nach Prozessen der Radikalisierung in den Blick. Neben individuellen Radikalisierungen sind es vor allem gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen, die für die Radikalisierung, manchmal sogar ganzer Gruppen, verantwortlich zeichnen. Im vorliegenden Buch werden unter Einbezug unterschiedlicher Perspektiven Prozesse der Radikalisierung und damit verbundenen Co-Radikalisierung auf rechtsextremer und muslimischer Seite untersucht und diskutiert.

Der erste Band dieser Einfuhrung stellt die wichtigsten Sozialpsychologien und Sozialtheorien vor. Er soll dabei informativ und leicht verstandlich u.a. in die Kritische Theorie, die Gouvernementalitatstudien, die Feministische Theorie und die System Theorie einfuhren, aber auch die Soziale Kognition, symbolischen Interaktionismus, Kritischen Psychologie sowie die psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie vorstellen. Damit werden die sonst nur getrennt zuganglichen Sozialpsychologien und Sozialtheorien in einem Band versammelt. Ein klarer Aufbau der Kapitel fuhrt Leserinnen und Leser in die Fragestellungen der jeweiligen Themen ein und liefert Hinweise zu weitergehender Literatur. Eine ideale Einfuhrung fur Studierende der Soziologie und Psychologie, die einen schnellen und kompakten Einstieg wunschen. Der Inhalt* Theoretische Zugange: Kritische Theorie, Gouvernementalitat, Systemtheorie, Rational Choice, Feministische Wissenschaft* Sozialpsychologien: Symbolischer Interaktionismus, Kritische Psychologie, Psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie, Sozialkonstruktivistische Sozialpsychologie, Lerntheorie, Soziale Kognition, Neurowissenschaftliche Sozialpsychologie* Empirische Zugange: Qualitative Forschung, Quantitative Forschung Der HerausgeberPD Dr. Oliver Decker ist Leiter des Kompetenzzentrums fur Rechtsextremismus- und Demokratieforschung und des Forschungsbereichs "Gesellschaftlicher und Medizinischer Wandel" an der Universitat Leipzig.