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19The 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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11Die 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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51Two 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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69Noumenal 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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9Toleranz, 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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7Der Sinn und der Grund der MenschenrechteIn Reza Mosayebi (ed.), Kant Und Menschenrechte, De Gruyter. pp. 241-266. 2018.
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22Moralische Autonomie und Autonomie der Moral. Zu einer Theorie der Normativitat nach KantDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52 (2): 179. 2004.
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24""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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26What Does it Mean to Justify Basic Rights?Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 45 (3): 76-90. 2016.
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82Moral 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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260Radical Justice: On Iris Marion Young's Critique of the “Distributive Paradigm”Constellations 14 (2): 260-265. 2007.
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51Political 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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80First 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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118Noumenal 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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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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72A 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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9Contexts 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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36The 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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70What is important in theorizing tolerance today?Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2): 159-196. 2015.
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153How (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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8Kontexte des Selbst: Zu Seyla Benhabibs Konzeption einer Kritischen TheorieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (6): 957-974. 1997.
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