Jürgen P. Lang

Jürgen P. Lang (2016)

Jürgen P. Lang (born June 12, 1964 in Regensburg ) is a German political scientist . He works as a freelance publicist and editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich .

Scientific activity

Jürgen P. Lang studied political science and German in Berlin and Munich. In 2003 he did his doctorate with Eckhard Jesse at the TU Chemnitz with an extremism-theoretical investigation of the PDS . His main research interests are political extremism , the history of political ideas and parties. With the democratic revolution in the GDR , he was interested in the transformation of the SED state party into the PDS. Since then, Lang has been involved in a large number of publications and lectures, including with this party.

Lang sees extremist tendencies in the PDS and the successor organization Die Linke . In his publications, Lang advocates a normative concept of extremism that is directed against opponents of democracy of all stripes. Most recently, he dealt with the New Right's school of thought and its influence on the AfD .

Lang gave lectures for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Hanns Seidel Foundation , the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , the Point Alpha Academy, the Academy for Political Education Tutzing, the State Centers for Political Education in Bavaria , Thuringia and , among others Saxony-Anhalt . He is a member of the Veldenstein Circle for Research on Extremism and Democracy.

bibliography

Monographs

• Farewell to the East? Die Linke after the 2017 Bundestag election , Sankt Augustin / Berlin 2018 Online ISBN 978-3-95721-450-8
• The Left - A Failed Party? , Munich 2012 (with Eckhard Jesse). ISBN 978-3-7892-8345-1
• For a better world? Left-wing extremist argumentation models , Sankt Augustin / Berlin 2012. Online (PDF; 217 kB) ISBN 978-3-942775-94-6
• Die Linke - the smart extremism of a German party , Munich 2008 (with Eckhard Jesse). ISBN 978-3-7892-8257-7
• Is the PDS a democratic party? An extremism-theoretical investigation (= series of publications Extremism & Democracy, Vol. 7), Baden-Baden 2003. ISBN 3-8329-0414-X
• The principle of counter-power. PDS and parliamentarism , Sankt Augustin 1998. ISBN 3-931575-80-2
• Left-wing extremism. An underestimated danger (= series of publications Extremism & Democracy , Vol. 8), Bonn 1996 (with Patrick Moreau ). ISBN 3-416-02543-1
• Rising from the Ruins ...? The PDS after the super election year 1994 , Sankt Augustin 1995 (with Patrick Moreau and Viola Neu ). ISBN 3-930163-79-9
• PDS. The legacy of the dictatorship , Munich 1994 (with Patrick Moreau). ISBN 3-928561-33-2
• What does the PDS want? Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1994 (with Patrick Moreau). ISBN 3-548-36638-4

Articles (selection)

• People and enemy. What is populism? , in: Politische Studien, 491/2020. Text online
• Revolution from the right. Utopia, violence and morality in the thinking of the radical New Right , in: Denkströme H. 21 (2019). Text online
• Biographical portrait: Björn Höcke , in: Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie 30, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-5542-4 . Text online
• Conspiracy ideologies. Anti-liberalism and totality fantasy from Metternich to modern extremism , in: Sebastian Liebold u. a. (Ed.): Democracy in Troubled Times, Baden-Baden 2018 ISBN 978-3-8487-4194-6 Text online
• Left-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany , in: Extremismusforschung, Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis, Baden-Baden 2018. ISBN 978-3-8487-1807-8 Text online
• A new New Right? Analysis of the traditions and innovations of a right-wing extremist current of thought , in: Yearbook for Extremism and Terrorism Research 2017/18 (I). ISBN 978-3-938407-91-2 text online
• The Party of the European Left - Anatomy of a failed project , in: Yearbook Extremism & Democracy 29 (2017). ISBN 978-3-8487-4634-7 text online
• Biographical portrait: Jürgen Elsässer , in: Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie 28, Baden-Baden 2016. ISBN 978-3-8487-3567-9 Text online
• Biographical portrait: Diether Dehm , in: Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie 26, Baden-Baden 2014. ISBN 978-3-8487-1925-9 Text online
• Left-wing extremism in Germany - its perception in society, politics and science , in: Alexander Gallus / Thomas Schubert / Tom Thieme (eds.): Deutsche Kontroversen, Baden-Baden 2013. ISBN 978-3-8487-0114-8 Text online
• Biographical portrait: Sahra Wagenknecht , in: Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie 22, Baden-Baden 2011. ISBN 978-3-8329-6050-6
• Acceptance despite extremist tendencies? Election successes, election campaigns and politics of the left, in: Eckhard Jesse / Roland Sturm (eds.): Balance of the Bundestag election 2009, Munich 2010.
• Holy Rosa? The Luxembourg reception in the party "Die Linke" , in: Germany Archive , 5/2009. Text online ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 143 kB)
• Change and Persistence: SED and PDS , in: From Politics and Contemporary History , 47/2008. Text online
• In the wake of the revolution. The SED / PDS and the dissolution of the State Security 1989/90 , in: Germany Archive, 1/2007. Text online ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 170 kB)
• The double left. An analysis of the cooperation between PDS and WASG , in: Germany Archive, 2/2006. Text online ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 187 kB)
• What is extremism research? Theoretical foundations and inventory , in: Uwe Backes / Eckhard Jesse (ed.): Danger to freedom. Extremist Ideologies in Comparison, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-525-36905-0 Text online ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 188 kB)

Web links

Commons : Jürgen P. Lang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jürgen P. Lang in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jürgen P. Lang at perlentaucher.de
• Website of Jürgen P. Lang with scientific texts
• Web article by Jürgen P. Lang on Muck Rack
• Contributions by Jürgen P. Lang on the ZEIT blog Störungsmelder
• The poison penetrates the center. Interview with Jürgen P. Lang about new developments in right-wing extremism.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen P. Lang on Academia.edu
2. ^ Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Farewell to the East. The left after the 2017 federal election .
3. ↑ Hanns Seidel Foundation: The poison penetrates the center. Interview with Jürgen P. Lang