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9Critique and DeconstructionGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 22 (2): 49-58. 2001.At a central point in his much-discussed book Real Presences, George Steiner writes of the “mountebank’s virtuosity... of a Hitler,” that realises “a counter-logos which conceptualizes and then enacts the deconstruction of the human.” It was clear to Steiner’s American readers what was meant by this transposition of the term ‘deconstruction’ from the field of aesthetics and philosophy, of literary and cultural criticism, to the context of political and ideological struggle against fascism and to…Read more
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1Otro tipo de gusto: ni autonomía ni consumo de masasEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 46 137-151. 2011.
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4Vorbemerkung: Gleichheit - Politisch, Nicht MetaphysischIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. 2000.
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22Leben ohne ZweckInternationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie 5 (1): 149-158. 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie Jahrgang: 5 Heft: 1 Seiten: 149-158.
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114Hegel’s Theory of LiberationSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 17 (1): 10-30. 2013.The freedom of spirit, Hegel claims, consists in “the emancipation of spirit from all those forms of being that do not conform to its concepts.” That is, freedom must be understood as “liberation [Befreiung].” The paper explores this claim by starting with Hegel’s critique of the (Kantian) understanding of freedom as autonomy. In this critique Hegel shows that norms or “laws” have to be thought of as “being”—not as “posited.” This is convincing, but it leaves open the question of the relation be…Read more
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92The presence of tragedyCritical Horizons 5 (1): 201-225. 2004.This paper argues that modernity can only be properly understood when tragedy is viewed as one of the conditions internal to it. Modernity and tragedy are not mutually exclusive, as Hegel and Schlegel, for example both argue, but mutually inclusive. Each is determined by the other—as tragic modernity and as modern tragedy.
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40Force: a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropologyFordham University Press. 2013.Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination -- Praxis: the practice of the subject -- Play: the operation of force -- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis -- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention -- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.
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15Subjektivität und Gelingen: Adorno – DerridaIn Markus Wolf & Andreas Niederberger (eds.), Politische Philosophie und Dekonstruktion: Beiträge zur Politischen Theorie im Anschluss an Jacques Derrida, Transcript Verlag. pp. 61-76. 2007.
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15. Die Permanenz Der RevolutionIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 132-156. 2000.
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33Reflections of EqualityStanford 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.
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"absolute Interrogation" - Metaphysikkritik Und Sinnsubversion Bei Jacques DerridaPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 97 (2): 351. 1990.
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20Nachdenken über „Bullshit": Kommentare in KürzeDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54 (3): 467-467. 2006.
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1Gleichheit, Reflexion, GemeinsinnIn Harald Bluhm & Herfried Münkler (eds.), Gemeinwohl Und Gemeinsinn: Zwischen Normativität Und Faktizität, De Gruyter. pp. 71-84. 2001.
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60Critique and Self‐Reflection: The Problematization of MoralityConstellations 7 (1): 100-115. 2000.
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20Le regard esthétique : Affect et violence, plaisir et catharsisPhilosophiques 23 (1): 67-79. 1996.Un des problèmes centraux des discussions sur la relation entre éthique et esthétique tourne autour de la question de la violence. Celle-ci emprunte deux avenues dans le texte. La première traite d'aspects déterminés de la peinture de Francis Bacon, comme la façon dont l'art représente la violence. À ce propos, on formule la thèse que la provocation éthique de cette peinture ne repose pas tant sur le fait qu'elle représente la violence, mais qu'elle engendre en sa présence un détachement esthéti…Read more
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204Hegel’s Theory of Second NatureSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 17 (1): 31-49. 2013.While in neo-Aristotelian conceptions of virtue and Bildung the concept of “second nature” describes the successful completion of human education, Hegel uses this term in order to analyze the irresolvably ambiguous, even conflictive nature of spirit. Spirit can only realize itself, in creating (1) a second nature as an order of freedom, by losing itself, in creating (2) a second nature—an order of externality, ruled by the unconscious automatisms of habit. In the second meaning of the term, “sec…Read more
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82From the dignity of man to human dignity: The subject of rightsIn Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp (ed.), Values and Norms in the Age of Globalization, Peter Lang. pp. 1--30. 2007.
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54The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right": Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s ArgumentSocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 (3): 739-762. 2007.Hannah Arendt's 1949 essay on the critique of human rights was published in English and German in the same year under two quite different titles: while in English the title asks the skeptical question: "'The Rights of Man'. What Are They?", the German title claims: "Es gibt nur ein einziges Menschenrecht " - "there is only one human right". The article shows that the English title's skepticism and the German title's assertion represent two internally connected moves of Arendt's argument. For Are…Read more
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13Distanz und Experiment: Zu zwei Aspekten ästhetischer Freiheit bei NietzscheDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (1): 61-78. 1993.
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62Autonomie und BefreiungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (5): 675-694. 2010.The left Hegelian interpretation of Hegel′s theory of Sittlichkeit has shown that the claim of the concept of autonomy to establish an internal connection between normativity and freedom can only be carried out, if the subject of autonomy is defined by its participation in social practices. While the left Hegelian interpretation thereby solves the paradoxes of the Kantian tradition of understanding autonomy, it is destined to repeat the paradoxical structure of autonomy in a new and fundamenta…Read more
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"niemals". Märchen Und Komödie In IthakaDeutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 76 (2): 306-312. 2002.
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