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21The Grounds of Institutional Moral Theory: On the Political Philosophy of Allen BuchananDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 55 (1): 7-18. 2020.In this paper, I discuss the conception of “institutional moral theory” that Allen Buchanan lays out in his work. I argue that it moves within a trilemma of grounding. The trilemma arises because the three routes to grounding we find in Buchanan’s works – the anthropological route appealing to human nature, the liberal route appealing to liberal values and the institutionalist route appealing to practice-immanent values – are mutually exclusive. But more than that, each horn of the trilemma enco…Read more
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16Die neorepublikanische MaschineIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 663-674. 2018.
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7Eine kritische Theorie transnationaler GerechtigkeitIn Julian Nida-Rümelin, Detlef Daniels & Nicole Wloka (eds.), Internationale Gerechtigkeit Und Institutionelle Verantwortung, De Gruyter. pp. 43-66. 2019.
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14Der Grund der Begründung, oder: Vernunft und Lebenswelt (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (2): 313-316. 2019.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 67 Heft: 2 Seiten: 313-316.
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62Two bad halves don't make a whole: On the crisis of democracyConstellations 26 (3): 378-383. 2019.
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Das Recht der NegativitätIn Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg, Juliane Rebentisch, Dirk Setton & Francesca Raimondi (eds.), Negativität: Kunst - Recht - Politik, Suhrkamp. pp. 196-206. 2018.
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78Noumenal PowerLas Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (14): 161-185. 2019.The same as with many other concepts, once one considers the concept of power more closely, fundamental questions arise, such as whether a power relation is necessarily a relation of subordination and domination, a view that makes it difficult to identify legitimate forms of the exercise of power. To contribute to conceptual as well as normative clarification, I suggest a novel way to conceive of power. I argue that we only understand what power is and how it is exercised once we understand its …Read more
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10Toleranz, Glaube und Vernunft. Bayle und Kant im VergleichIn Heiner Klemme (ed.), Kant Und Die Zukunft der Europäischen Aufklärungkant and the Future of the European Enlightenment, Walter De Gruyter. 2009.
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10Der Sinn und der Grund der MenschenrechteIn Reza Mosayebi (ed.), Kant Und Menschenrechte, De Gruyter. pp. 241-266. 2018.
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30Moralische Autonomie und Autonomie der Moral. Zu einer Theorie der Normativitat nach KantDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52 (2): 179. 2004.
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28""Review essay: Hannah Arendt" S political phenomenology. Maurizio passerin d" Entreves, the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt (london and new York: Routledge, 1994 (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 23 (3): 115-124. 1997.
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30What Does it Mean to Justify Basic Rights?Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 45 (3): 76-90. 2016.
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273Radical Justice: On Iris Marion Young's Critique of the “Distributive Paradigm”Constellations 14 (2): 260-265. 2007.
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87Moral Autonomy and the Autonomy of MoralityGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 26 (1): 65-88. 2005.The original German version appeared as “Moralische Autonomie und Autonomie der Moral: Zu einer Theorie der Normativität nach Kant,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52:2, pp. 179-97. The editors gratefully acknowledge permission granted by Akademie Verlag to publish the present version.
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88First Things First Redistribution, Recognition and JustificationEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 291-304. 2007.This article analyses the debate between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth in a dialectical fashion. Their controversy about how to construct a critical theory of justice is not just one about the proper balance between `redistribution' and `recognition', it also involves basic questions of social ontology. Differing both from Fraser's `twodimensional' view of `participatory parity' and from Honneth's `monistic' theory of recognition, the article argues for a third view of `justificatory monism and …Read more
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124Noumenal Alienation: Rousseau, Kant and Marx on the Dialectics of Self-DeterminationKantian Review 22 (4): 523-551. 2017.This article argues that alienation should be understood as a particular form of individual and social heteronomy that can only be overcome by a dialectical combination of individual and collective autonomy, recovering a deontological sense of normative authority. If we think about alienation in Kantian terms, the main source of alienation is a denial of standing or, in the extreme, losing a sense of oneself as a rational normative authority equal to all others. I call the former kind of alienat…Read more
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61Political Liberalism: A Kantian ViewEthics 128 (1): 123-144. 2017.This article suggests a Kantian reading of Rawls’s Political Liberalism. As much as Rawls distanced himself from a presentation of his theory in terms of a comprehensive Kantian moral doctrine, we ought to read it as a noncomprehensive Kantian moral-political theory. According to the latter approach, the liberal conception of justice is compatible with a plurality of comprehensive doctrines as long as they share the independently defined and grounded essentials of that conception of justice—that…Read more
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80A critical theory of politicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3): 225-234. 2015.In this article, I address the various objections raised by Simone Chambers, Stephen White and Lea Ypi concerning my version of a critical theory of politics. I explain the basic assumptions that inform my account of a critique of relations of justification, its particular method and aims.
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16Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy Beyond Liberalism and CommunitarianismUniversity of California Press. 2002._Contexts of Justice,_ highly acclaimed when it was published in Germany, provides a significant new intervention into the important debate between communitarianism and liberalism. Rainer Forst argues for a theory of "contexts of justice" that leads beyond the narrow confines of this debate as it has been understood until now and posits the possibility of a new conception of social and political justice. This book brings refreshing clarity to a complex topic as it provides a synthesis of traditi…Read more
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24Committed critical theory: Some thoughts on Stephen White’s A Democratic BearingPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (2): 126-130. 2018.In this article, I comment on Stephen White’s version of critical theory as presented in A Democratic Bearing. I specifically focus on his version of the “colonization thesis” and the social analysis this leads to. I also scrutinize his normative framework, especially the claim of non-foundationalism and the difference between his view and Kantian discourse theory.
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47The Power of Tolerance: A Debate (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2014.We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of depoliticization? Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highligh…Read more
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84What is important in theorizing tolerance today?Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2): 159-196. 2015.
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161How (not) to speak about identity: The concept of the person in a theory of justicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 18 (3-4): 293-312. 1992.
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3Justice, reason and critique: basic concepts of critical theoryIn David M. Rasmussen (ed.), Handbook of critical theory, Blackwell. 1996.
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10Kontexte des Selbst: Zu Seyla Benhabibs Konzeption einer Kritischen TheorieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (6): 957-974. 1997.
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