Contemporary political thought in Germany

该研究项目旨在对1990年以来德国当代政治思想的相关贡献进行研究。然后将收集到的材料在自由主义、保守主义、社会主义（包括社会民主主义思想）和绿色政治思想之间政治意识形态的明确区分的具体考虑下进行讨论。在这种背景下，“政治思想”被理解为所有面向公众的文本陈述的总和，这些陈述要求一定程度的理论一致性、反思和分析质量，并侧重于对一般政治制度（政体）、政治过程（政治）和政治结果（政策）进行分析、批评和规范指导。对政治思想的贡献可以进一步理解为一方面是政治理论，另一方面是纯粹的公共纲领性声明。重点关注的时间框架是对1989/90年以来出现的严峻挑战的认识的结果，例如全球化进程中民族国家权力的侵蚀，社会个性化趋势的增加以及进一步协调生态和经济目标的日益需要。我们认为书籍、散文和文章是相关的，它们要么是超越了公众的一定认知水平，同时又通过使现有的政治意识形态适应新问题而脱颖而出，要么是抛弃旧的范式，开辟政治思想的新方向。这些文本的范围从波托·施特劳斯的“Anschwellender Bocksgesang”（1993）到j<s:1>根·哈贝马斯的“Die Zukunft der menschlichen nature”（2001）到蒂姆·杰克逊的《没有增长的繁荣》（2011）。我们将根据定量标准（销售数字）、定性标准（出版名单）、专家调查和精选相关期刊进行多维度调查，收集讨论相关政治思想的文本。这个过程将把文本减少到可以深入分析的数量，然后我们将集中在关于传统政治意识形态未来的主要问题上。在项目的最后一部分，我们将做出三个指导性假设：一些对政治思想的贡献有望通过精炼它们来加强既定的意识形态，而另一些可能会将两个或更多的意识形态融合为一个集团，甚至还有一些可能不会完全符合既定的类别，但会开辟新的维度。到目前为止，研究界还没有从事这样的工作：创建一个自1990年以来的当代政治思想的广泛地图（可以这么说），并在此过程中提出政治意识形态的未来问题。

The research project aims at creating a study of the relevant contributions to contemporary political thought in Germany since 1990. The collected material shall then be discussed under specific considerations of the well-established distinction of political ideologies between Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism (including Social-Democratic thought) and green political thought. "Political thought" in this context is understood as the sum of all textual statements addressing the public, which claim a certain level of theoretical consistency, reflection and analytical quality and focus on analyzing, criticizing and giving normative guidance to the general political institutions (polity), the processes (politics) and outcomes of politics (policy). The contributions to political thought are further understood as situated between political theories on the one hand and mere public programmatic statements on the other. The time frame in focus is a result of the insight that severe challenges have emerged since 1989/90, such as the erosion of nation-state power in the process of globalization, an increasing trend towards individualization in society and a growing need to further and reconcile ecological and economic goals. We regard books, essays and articles as relevant, which either exceed a certain level of public recognition and that at the same time stand out by advancing the established political ideologies by adapting them to new problems or that rather leave old paradigms behind and open up new directions in political thought. The spectrum of such texts ranges from Botho Strauss' "Anschwellender Bocksgesang" (1993) via Jürgen Habermas' "Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur" (2001) to Tim Jackson's book "Wohlstand ohne Wachstum" (Prosperity without Growth, 2011). We will collect texts discussing relevant political thought in a multi-dimensional inquiry according to quantitative criteria (sales numbers), qualitative criteria (published lists), through surveys taken among experts and through reviewing of a selection of related journals. The process will reduce the texts to an amount that is accessible to an in-depth analysis that we will then focus on the main question regarding the future of tradition political ideologies. In this final part of the project, we will make three guiding assumptions: Some contributions to political thought are expected to strengthen the established ideologies by refining them while others might melt two or more to a conglomerate, while even others might not neatly fit into well-established categories but opening up new dimensions. The research community so far has not yet been engaged in doing such an undertaking: creating an extensive map (so to speak) of contemporary political thought since 1990 and asking the question of the future of the political ideologies in the process.