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Relativismus und Partikularisierung. Zu einigen Uberlegungen bei R. RortyPhilosophische Rundschau 36 (1-2): 25-40. 1989.
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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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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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13Distanz und Experiment: Zu zwei Aspekten ästhetischer Freiheit bei NietzscheDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (1): 61-78. 1993.
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"niemals". Märchen Und Komödie In IthakaDeutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 76 (2): 306-312. 2002.
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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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33. Gleichheit Und Zwang Eine Hermeneutische Grenze Moderner SelbstreflexionIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 87-108. 2000.
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38Two Kinds of Practice: On the Relation between Social Discipline and the Aesthetics of ExistenceConstellations 10 (2): 199-210. 2003.
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Proceso de la decisión, El: una aproximación desde la excepciónEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 9-20. 1996.
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11La reflexión en lo estético y su significado ético. Una crítica a la solución kantianaEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 36 139-151. 2004.
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78The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and DerridaMIT Press. 1998.Art is not only autonomous, following its own law, different from nonaesthetic reason, but sovereign: it subverts the rule of reason.In this book Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling ...
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47Hegel’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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5Tragödie und Skeptizismus Zu HamletDeutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 75 (4): 561-586. 2001.
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17Tragedy and Skepticism: On HamletIn James Conant & Andrea Kern (eds.), Varieties of Skepticism: Essays After Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell, De Gruyter. pp. 363-388. 2014.
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192. Genealogie - Dekonstruktion - Kritik.: Drei Formen Der MoralbefragungIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 49-86. 2000.
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26Distanz und Urteil: Das Paradox der NormDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (2): 299-306. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 64 Heft: 2 Seiten: 299-306.
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66Not Yet. The Philosophical Significance of AestheticsNordic Journal of Aesthetics 21 (39). 2010.The paper asks for the preconditions and the consequences of the emergence of aesthetics in and for philosophy. The question is: what does it mean for philosophy to engage the question of the aesthetic? My answer will be: it means nothing less than putting philosophy in question. Or, more precisely: by engaging the question of the aesthetic, philosophy puts itself in question. In order to show this, I will refer to a brief passage in the Phenomenology of the Spirit and then attempt to turn it ag…Read more
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63Critique 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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154. Liberalismus Im Konflikt. Zwischen Freiheit Und GerechtigkeitIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 109-131. 2000.
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16Virtù e riflessione. Le "antinomie della filosofia morale" secondo AdornoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (1): 99-118. 2005.
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76. Gnade Und Recht. Carl Schmitts Begriff Der SouveränitätIn Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 157-180. 2000.
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15Tragic Play: Irony and Theater From Sophocles to BeckettColumbia University Press. 2009.Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by Wi…Read more
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