Veith Selk is a habilitated political scientist. He works at the Institute of Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology and in the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project “True Hate. Emotion Disciplining and Political Learning.” His work focuses on political theory and the history of political thought. Current research topics: Theory of Democracy, Populism, and Political Emotions. His habilitation thesis deals with the crisis of democracy in theory and practice.
Publications on the topic of Anxiety Culture:
2020: Fear Politics in Times of Populism, in Hermeneutische Blätter (2020), 1, 153-163.
2020: The obsolescence of the liberalism of fear, in: Linpinsel, Thomas and Martin, Susanne (eds.): Angst in Kultur und Politik der Gegenwart, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 43-60.
2019: Uncertainty and Fear in Liberal Democracy, in: Adult Education. Quarterly Journal of Theory and Practice (2019), 107-110.
2016: Governing Fear. A History of Political Ideas from Tyranny to Leviathan, Wehrhahn, Hannover.
2015: Fear in Bielefeld. On an excluded feeling in systems theory (with Karsten Malowitz), in Mittelweg 36. Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research 1-2 (2015), 92-116.
Online at: https://www.soziopolis.de/angst-in-bielefeld.html
2014: Republican Constitutionalism. Overcoming Fear as the Key to Liberty in Montesquieu’s Constitutional Theory (with Karsten Malowitz), in Journal of Political Theory 5 (1) (2014), 31-50.
https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/zpth/article/view/16652
2013: Anxiety and Method in Social Science. Consequences for Political Theory and the History of Ideas, in: Busen, Andreas/Weiß, Alexander (eds.), Ansätze und Methoden zur Erforschung politischer Ideen, Baden-Baden, 255-279.
2012: The Politicization of Fear in Modernity, in: Berliner Debatte Initial 23 (2) (2012), 136-148.
2012: New Contributions to the Politics of Fear in the Age of the War on Terror, in New Political Literature 57 (2) (2012), 267-291.
2011: Fear Politics. Terrorism as Political Strategy, in: Discourse 7 (1) (2011), 8-33.
PD Dr. Veith Selk
Technical University of Darmstadt , Political Science
Theory & Methodology
In a mutual approach of (Social / Natural) Sciences and Humanities, research on the different aspects of Anxiety Culture has to be carried out in a combination of methodological traditions and innovations, referring to data-sets and empirical findings in each area of investigation.