•  116
    Weder Rawls noch Adorno? Raymond Geuss′ Programm einer „realistischen“ Philosophie
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (3): 445-455. 2010.
    In Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss outlines the program of a “realistic” investigation of politics and develops a critique of the normativistic approach that defines the mainstream of contemporary analytic political philosophy. The paper discusses the question of how these two elements, “realism” and “critique”, are related in Geuss. Drawing on some of Geuss′ considerations in Outside Ethics the paper argues that the very existence of “real politics” depends on the critique of those …Read more
  •  79
    Warum Rechte?
    Zeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 7 (2): 72-77. 2016.
    Das Rechtssystem geht davon aus, dass der Mensch – und nur der Mensch – eine natürliche Person ist. Das sei ein Irrtum, argumentiert Malte-Christian Gruber, denn die Rechtssubjektivität wird keineswegs alleine mit dem bloßen Menschsein begründet. Es ist die sittliche Autonomie, die den Menschen zu einem »Subjekt, dessen Handlungen einer Zurechnung fähig sind« (Kant) und mithin zur Person macht. Personen werden nicht mit dem Menschsein als solchem identifiziert, sondern durch die Zuschreibung von…Read more
  •  39
    Tragödie und Skeptizismus Zu Hamlet
    Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 75 (4): 561-586. 2001.
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    Tragedy and the free spirits: On Nietzsche's theory of aesthetic freedom
    with James Swindal
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 22 (1): 1-12. 1996.
  •  46
    Ästhetischer Widerstand und die Kraft der Kunst
    with Hermann Pfütz
    In Aida Bosch & Hermann Pfütze (eds.), Ästhetischer Widerstand gegen Zerstörung und Selbstzerstörung, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 249-265. 2018.
    Hermann Pfütze und Christoph Menke stellen in dem Podiumsgespräch die Frage nach den widerständigen Potentialen der Kunst. Was ist das Spezifische der Kunst gegenüber anderen sozialen Feldern oder Praxisformen? Was lässt sich unter Ästhetischem Widerstand genau verstehen? Auch wenn die Kunst nicht über Gewaltmittel verfügt, so könnte es doch einen Wettstreit um die Idee der Kunst geben. Ästhetischer Widerstand ist dann der Widerstand einer Kunstform gegen eine andere. Oder ist die ästhetische Er…Read more
  •  50
    Werte, Wertungen und das Politische
    Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2009 (1): 149-154. 2009.
  •  79
    The Self-Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights
    Constellations 18 (2): 124-134. 2011.
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    _Tragic Play_ explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age _after_ tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays b…Read more
  •  29
    The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique
    In María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, State University of New York Press. pp. 377-394. 2020.
  •  19
    Law and violence
    In Law and Violence: Chirstoph Menke in dialogue, Manchester University Press. pp. 3-76. 2018.
    The use of violence in law, the argument for its legitimacy says, constitutes an "unsurpassable limiting case"; it is at the disposal of law, whose internal organization is "symbolic" or normative, as a "symbiotic mechanism" that operates by action upon "physical-organic existence." The law to be discussed here is the law of tragedy; not just any sort of order guaranteed by a power that establishes a minimum of reliability of expectations, but the specific form of law engendered by the tragic la…Read more
  •  146
    Spirit and Life
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 27 (2): 159-186. 2006.
  •  5
    Im Schatten der Verfassung. Die Krise des Liberalismus
    In Emmanuel Alloa, Michael G. Festl, Federica Gregoratto & Thomas Telios (eds.), Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk und Wirken, Transcript Verlag. pp. 177-200. 2019.
  •  12
    The third generation of critical theorists affiliated with the Frankfurt School has now established legal theory as a central field of research, also with significant contributions from scholars whose primary training is in other fields. Postmodern legal theory will have to face up to the challenges of legal practice and broaden its reflections to take into account forms of lawmaking beyond the political community conceived in unitary terms. Only by integrating this possibility of transcendence …Read more
  •  57
    Nachdenken über „Bullshit": Kommentare in Kürze
    with Dieter Thomä
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54 (3): 467-467. 2006.
  •  20
    Law without violence
    In Law and violence: Christoph Menke in dialogue, Manchester University Press. pp. 96-111. 2018.
    According to Christoph Menke, there never was and never can be any law without violence. The reason for this dependency of law on violence lies in its need to be enforced; Menke follows Immanuel Kant's definition according to which law consists in a reciprocal authority to use coercion. Immanuel Kant's definition has been extremely influential, not only in legal and political philosophy, but also in public discourse and in our everyday understanding of law and legal matters. Over centuries, Jewi…Read more
  •  87
    Soziale Plastik
    Zeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 68 (1): 32-48. 2023.
    This essay examines how Joseph Beuys uses the social plastic concept (›soziale Plastik‹) to think about the relationship between art and democracy. To this end, the first part analyzes the oppositions that define this concept in order to read them as the basic determinations of a dialectical concept of democracy. Against this background, the second part of the essay deals with how Beuys understands the contribution of art to democracy. In doing so, Beuys’ statement ›Every man is an artist‹ is su…Read more
  •  60
    Kontingenz und Solidarität. Eine Replik auf Anke Thyen
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56 (1): 155-158. 2008.
  •  38
    Ist Hegels Philosophie „historisch“
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (5): 787-791. 2011.
  •  87
    Reflections of Equality
    Stanford University Press. 2006.
    This book brings a new perspective—mainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegel—to bear on the problems of equality as discussed in Anglo-American conceptions of liberalism. Menke argues that the idea of equality is at the heart of political modernity. At the same time, political modernity is characterized by an attitude of critical reflection on the notion of equality in view of its consequences for the lives of individuals. This book explores the sources and legitimacy as well…Read more
  •  30
    Gleichheit, Reflexion, Gemeinsinn
    In Herfried Münkler & Harald Bluhm (eds.), Gemeinwohl und Gemeinsinn: Zwischen Normativität und Faktizität, De Gruyter. pp. 71-84. 2002.
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    Personenregister
    In Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 203-206. 2000.
  •  3
    Metafísica y experiencia. Acerca del concepto de Filosofía de Adorno
    In Gustavo Leyva & Víctor Alarcón (eds.), La teoría crítica y las tareas actuales de la crítica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades. pp. 170--184. 2005.
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    Schwerpunkt: Menschenwürde
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (4): 567-570. 2014.
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    Index
    In Law and violence: Christoph Menke in dialogue, Manchester University Press. pp. 234-239. 2018.
  •  8
    On the Fate of Aesthetic Education
    In María del Rosario Acosta López & Jeffrey L. Powell (eds.), Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom: Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 137-151. 2018.