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45The Power of Tolerance: A DebateColumbia University Press. 2014.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?
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38Kritik und Antwort. Zu: Peter Stemmer: Normativität. Die Reise nach PhantasiaDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (1): 157-161. 2010.
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36The Right to Justification: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice andIn Gary Browning (ed.), Dialogues with contemporary political theorists, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 105. 2012.
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36Symposium on Jürgen Habermas, Auch eine Geschichte der PhilosophieConstellations 28 (1): 3-4. 2021.
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34The rational critique of social unreason. On critical theory in the Frankfurt traditionConstellations 30 (4): 395-400. 2023.Constellations, EarlyView.
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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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29Moralische 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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27Die Würde des Menschen und das Recht auf RechtfertigungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (4). 2005.
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25El fundamento de la crítica: sobre el concepto de dignidad humana en los órdenes de justificación socialesDiálogo Filosófico 85 37-54. 2013.
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24Against Nature, by Lorraine Daston. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780262537339 86 pp, $13.95 pbk (review)European Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 427-428. 2022.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 427-428, March 2022.
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23Committed 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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23'To Tolerate Means to Insult': Toleration, recognition, and EmancipationIn Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.), Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 215--237. 2007.
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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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20Democratic faith. A philosophical profile of Richard J. BernsteinConstellations 30 (1): 20-22. 2023.
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20The rule of unreason: Analyzing (anti‐)democratic regressionConstellations 30 (3): 217-224. 2023.Constellations, EarlyView.
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19Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an ‘order of justification’ comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification. The task of a ‘critique of relations of justification’, therefore, is …Read more
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19Who is Haunted by the Shadow of God? Dialectical Notes on Michael Rosen's Narrative of (Failed) SecularizationCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 35 (3): 194-202. 2023.In The Shadow of God, Michael Rosen argues that modern moral philosophy in the tradition of German Idealism is profoundly shaped by religious views these thinkers could not overcome. However, a closer look at Rosen’s critique of Kant’s and Kantian conceptions of morality raises the possibility that Rosen’s view may itself be haunted by the shadow of God. In particular, Rosen appears to believe that a moral imperative of respect for human dignity necessarily requires a religious-transcendent grou…Read more
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19Die Pflicht zur GerechtigkeitIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), John Rawls: Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 171-190. 2006.
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16Justice, democracy and the right to justification: Rainer Forst in dialogueBloomsbury Academic. 2014.Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental research programme within the tradition of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The core of this programme is a moral account of the basic right of justification that humans owe to one another as rational beings. This account is put to work by Forst in articulating - both historically and philosophically - the contexts and form of justice and of toleration. The result is a powerful theoretical framework within which to address issues …Read more
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15Die 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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14Contexts 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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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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13Normativity and power: analyzing social orders of justificationOxford University Press. 2017.In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of the ground-breaking 'Normativität und Macht' (Suhrkamp 2015), Rainer Forst presents a new approach to critical theory. Each essay reflects on the basic principles that guide our normative thinking. Forst's argument goes beyond 'ideal' and 'realist' theories and shows how closely the concepts of normativity and power are interrelated, and how power rests on the capacity to influence, determine, and possibly restrict the space of…Read more
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13Knowing What Justice Means and Being Committed to It: Remarks on Allen Buchanan's Analysis of Conservative Factual BeliefsJournal of Applied Philosophy 38 (5): 742-746. 2021.ABSTRACT Allen Buchanan argues that a particular set of false factual beliefs, especially when part of a comprehensive ideology, can lead persons to develop ‘morally conservative’ convictions that stand in the way of realising justice even though these persons have a ‘firm grasp of correct principles of justice and a robust commitment to their realisation’. In my remarks, I raise some questions concerning the core argument: How ‘firm’ can a grasp of principles of justice be if a person is blind …Read more
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