„Nothing to kill or die for...“ — Überlegungen zu einer politischen Theorie des Opfers

Abstract

The political semantics of sacrifice after World War II is characterized by a shift from an active ( sacrifice ) to a passive significance ( victim ). Presenting oneself as a victim is more and more conducive for assertion in distributive conflicts in the welfare state. The ideological conception, e.g. to make the supreme sacrifice, recedes into the background. This is a success of enlightenment, but with regard to recent wars forcing soldiers to risk their lives, a prospective dialectic of this enlightenment in Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s sense must be taken into account.

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