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5Les nouveaux et nombreux défis de la constellation " postnationale " rendent plus actuelle que jamais une ancienne idée philosophique : le cosmopolitisme. Dans ses variantes modernes, celui-ci pose l'autonomie de l'individu humain comme norme fondamentale de toute construction politique. Le cosmopolitisme représente donc une alternative aussi bien au nationalisme qu'à la théorie normative d'un monde multipolaire de confrontations entre empires. L'ouvrage montre que le cosmopolitisme peut être co…Read more
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10Die kosmopolitische Transgressivität der modernen DemokratieIn Georg Kohler & Urs Marti (eds.), Konturen der Neuen Weltordnung: Beiträge Zu Einer Theorie der Normativen Prinzipien Internationaler Politik, De Gruyter. pp. 102-119. 2003.
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Utrum omnia eveniant de necessitate. Textedition und Studie der gleichnamigen Quaestio von Thaddeus von ParmaFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 35 (n/a): 175-199. 1988.
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296The debate on the European Union's democratic deficit usually operates within a national-democratic framework of analysis. This article argues for a change in methodology. It follows the thesis that the EU is a ‘demoicracy’– a polity of multiple demoi– and has to be evaluated as such. Core principles of demoicracy are developed and the EU is assessed accordingly. Such an evaluation is not only more adequate, but also provides original insights: it is found that, whereas the constitutional develo…Read more
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287An Ethical View on Remittances and Labor MigrationGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 5 16-30. 2012.The present contribution defends that remittances should be taken into account and integrated into an ethical framework on migration. This main thesis is two-fold. First, we argue that if a normative approach to migration is to claim practical relevance, it should integrate remittances as a relevant empirical parameter into an ethical framework. The empirical assessment of the scientific evidence available on remittances therefore proves to be extremely important. Secondly, assuming that remitta…Read more
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41Mind the GapJournal of Philosophical Research 37 (9999): 263-267. 2012.Globalization stands for systemic integration, mainly economical and technological. It is related to the expansion of the free market economy, trade, and the global integration of systems of communication and information technology. As such, globalization co-exists with strong cultural affirmations of individual and collective difference and with political fragmentation. Cosmopolitanism needs to take into consideration cultural and political conditions of human existence. The cosmopolitan impera…Read more
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1The Rights of Strangers. Theories of International Hospitality, the Global Community, and Political Justice since Vitoria (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 59 (1). 2005.
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Bibliographie zu Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1995 - 1997, mit einer kurzen EinführungFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 46 (1/2): 263-285. 1999.
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10Review of: Georg Cavallar: The Rights of Strangers. Theories of International Hospitality, the Global Community, and Political Justice since Vitoria (Aldershot: Ashgate 2002) (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 59 (1): 140-143. 2005.
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16In dieser Schrift begründet Dante die Priorität der Volks- und Muttersprache vor der lateinischen Gelehrtensprache und fordert eine italienische Hochsprache. Er untermauert seine Ausführungen durch eine anthropologische Erörterung der menschlichen Sprachfähigkeit. Dank einer originellen Interpretation des biblischen Mythos vom Turmbau von Babel legt er eine vernünftig begründete Neubewertung der Vielfalt und der historischen Entwicklung der Sprachen vor. Das Problem der Sprache stellt sich im De…Read more
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19Lost in Universalization? On the Difficulty of Localizing the European IntellectualIn Francis Cheneval, Justine Lacroix & Kalypso Nicolaidis (eds.), Cheneval, Francis (2010). Lost in Universalization? On the Difficulty of Localizing the European Intellectual. In: Lacroix, Justine; Nicolaidis, Kalypso. European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Pres, . pp. 31-49. 2010.European Stories is the first book of its kind in any European language. Its authors explore the many different ways 'public intellectuals' have debated Europe - the EU and its periphery - within distinct epistemological, disciplinary, ideological and above all national traditions. The chapters focus on the post-1989 era but with a view to the long history of the 'European idea' and its variants across the continent. To what extent such ideas frame the attitude of European publics is left open. …Read more
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31Dante's monarchia: aspects of its history of reception in the 14th centuryIn Francis Cheneval, B. Carlos Bazan, Eduardo Andujar & Leonard G. Sbrocchi (eds.), Actes du IXe Congrès international de Philosophie Médiévale, Ottawa, 17-22 août, . pp. 1474-1485. 1995.
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Zwischenstaatliche Integration als Vorbild neuer WeltordnungStudia Philosophica 64 179-202. 2005.This article proposes the political organisation of interstate integration – characterised by functional differentiation and unbundled multi-level territoriality – as a political ideal type. The theoretical foundations and empirical conditions of this new form of political organisation are explored focussing on basic security threats, such as nuclear armament, transnational terrorism, and organised crime. The empirical conditions of multilateral democratic integration are not essentially differe…Read more
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17Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar: EU citizenship, direct democracy and treaty ratificationEuropean Law Journal 13 (5): 647-663. 2007.This article argues that obligatory, simultaneous, and simple Treaty ratification by referenda is the next step in the consolidation of the political core of European citizenship. In the first part, general remarks about the special nature of EU citizenship highlight the relevance of referenda on EU Treaties for EU citizenship. In the second part, the normative and empirical case in favour of direct democracy is put forward. It is followed by the assessment of direct democracy in European integr…Read more
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53In this paper an analysis of Hobbes' argument in favor of the Leviathan is combined with a reassessment in a new security environment. The analysis shows that Hobbes' premises are complex and lead to conclusions that differ from the realist as well as from the world-state position, both attributed to Hobbesian logic in IR theory. A strict application of the Hobbesian argument in today's security context leads to a rationale of multilateral institution-building among states. In the first part of …Read more
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Ars imitatur naturam als methodisches Prinzip der politischen Philosophie und seine Anwendung im Defensor pacis des Marsilius von PaduaArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 60. 1993.
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87Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of PoliticsAnalyse & Kritik 35 (1): 255-269. 2013.The article argues that Rawls’s property-owning democracy should not be understood as a necessary standard of democratic legitimacy. This position contradicts Rawls’s own understanding to some extent, but a rejoinder with elements of political liberalism is possible. He concedes that justice as fairness is a ‘comprehensive liberal doctrine’ and that a well ordered society affirming such a doctrine ‘contradicts reasonable pluralism’. Rawls makes clear that reasonable pluralism in combination with…Read more