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1Capitalist Schematization. Political Economy, Exchange, and Objecthood in AdornoZeitschrift Für Kritische Theorie 36 110-123. 2013.
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77Mitmachende Spiegelleiber. Anmerkungen zur Phänomenologie der konkreten Intersubjektivität bei HusserlZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (1): 72-95. 2002.In den Cartesianischen Meditationen von Edmund Husserl heißt es: "Der Andere ist Spiegelung meiner selbst und doch nicht eigentlich Spiegelung." . Man kann den Satz nicht nur als einen Reflex der Leibniz-Lektüre Husserls auslegen, sondern ihn auch als sachlichen Hinweis auf die Erfahrung der Spiegelung verstehen. Meine Überlegungen beschränken sich auf eine Grundskizze einer Phänomenologie der Spiegelerfahrung, die die konkrete Fremderfahrung, also abgesehen von ihrer Grundlegungsdimension, gena…Read more
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121Existential Idealism?Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1): 109-135. 2007.In this essay, I shall attempt to shed light on central practical concepts, such as action and decision, in Heidegger’s existentialism and in Fichte’s idealism. BothFichte and Heidegger, though from different philosophical frameworks and with different results, address the practical moment by developing [1] a non-epistemic concept of certainty, in connection with [2] a temporal analysis of the conditions of action, which leads to the primacy of future in their analyses. Both [1] and [2] shed lig…Read more
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66XVIII. Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie "Die Zukunft des Wissens" 4.-8.10.1999 an der Universität KonstanzZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (1). 2000.
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149The events of morality and forgiveness: From Kant to DerridaResearch in Phenomenology 36 (1): 255-273. 2006.In this paper, I will perform a "step back" by showing how Derrida's analysis of forgiveness is rooted in Kantian moral philosophy and in Derrida's interpretation of Kierkegaard's concept of decision. This will require a discussion of the distinction that Kant draws in his Groundwork between price (the economic) and dignity (the incomparable), as well as a discussion of the underlying notion of singularity in Kant's text. In addition, Derrida universalizes Kierkegaard's concept of the agent so t…Read more
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179Cognitivism and Practical IntentionalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 153-166. 2007.Hubert L. Dreyfus has worked out a critique of what he calls “representationalism” and “cognitivism,” one proponent of which, according to Dreyfus, is Husserl. But I think that Dreyfus misunderstands the Husserlian conception of practical intentionality and that his characterization of Husserl as a “representationalist” or as a “cognitivist” is thereby wrongheaded. In this paper I examine Dreyfus’s interpretation by offering a Husserlian critique of Dreyfus’s objections to Husserl, and then by o…Read more
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31st Annual Meeting Of The Husserl-circle, Bloomington, IndianaPhänomenologische Forschungen. 2001.
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2Reification through Commodity Form or Technology? From Honneth back to Heidegger and MarxRethinking Marxism 25 (2): 184-200. 2013.
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51PassivitätPhilosophische Rundschau 58 (4): 311-318. 2011.Die 4. Auflage bringt zunächst die Kommentierung der Präambel und der Art. 1 bis 19 auf den aktuellen Stand von Judikatur und Literatur. Die grundlegende Struktur des Kommentares wurde beibehalten und um neuere Entwicklungen wie die Implikationen der Europäisierung und Digitalisierung sowie der Corona-Pandemie ergänzt.Die Herausgeberschaft des Kommentares hat ab der 4. Auflage Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf übernommen. Auch im Autorenkreis sind personelle Veränderungen zu verzeichnen: Mit Ausnahme von …Read more
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105Husserls Genuss: Über den Zusammenhang von Leib, Affektion, Fühlen und WerthaftigkeitHusserl Studies 18 (1): 19-39. 2002.
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155The Return of Abstract Universalism. A Critique of David Graeber’s Concept of Society and CommunismRadical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 245-262. 2015.In this essay I critically examine David Graeber’s concept of “everyday communism.” Graeber claims that that all societies are ultimately based and founded upon what he calls the “communism of the senses.” This “two-level” version of social reality, as I intend to show in what follows from a Marxian standpoint, should be rejected, as it operates with a descriptive concept of society that posits as the center or “essence” of society its universal and ahistorical “human” base, on top of which hier…Read more
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66Distant PresenceSymposium 16 (1): 86-111. 2012.In this essay, I offer thoughts on the constitution of images in art, especially as they are constituted in painting and in photography. Utilizing ideas from Gadamer, Derrida and Adorno, I shall argue that representation should be conceived as a performative concept and as an act of formation; i.e., as a process rather thanas something "fixed." My reflections will be carried out in connection with a careful analysis of Gerhard Richter's painting Reader, which is a painting of a photograph that d…Read more
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Selbstverständnis und Lebenswelt. Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Hermeneutik im Ausgang von Husserl und Heidegger (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (3). 2002.
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51Ding und Verdinglichung: Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der Kritischen Theorie (edited book)Wilhelm Fink. 2012.
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74Recollection, mourning, and the absolute past: On Husserl, Freud, and DerridaThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 121-141. 2004.
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2Faith, Freedom, Conscience. Luther, Fichte, and the Principle of InwardnessIn Jennifer Hockenbery & Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth (eds.), The Devil's Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition, Fortress. pp. 95-101. 2011.
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7Scholarship in Heideggerian philosophy can be broadly differentiated into three groups, which evolved in the European and Anglo-American discourses after WWII, namely, first a transcendental (idealist Kantian) approach; second, an Aristotelian approach; and third, a Christian approach to Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein and his fundamental ontology. All of these basic positions are a result of Heidegger’s philosophy on his way to Being and Time (1927) which he developed both in his broad ranging a…Read more
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36From affectivity to subjectivity: Husserl's phenomenology revisitedPalgrave-Macmillan. 2007.Christian Lotz shows in this book that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept--subjectivity--is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other. The analysis of the sensual sphere and the lived Body forces Husserl to an ongoing correction of his strong methodological assumptions. Subjectivity turns out to be an ambivalent phenomenon, as the subject is unable to fully present itself to itself, and therefore is forced to allow for a…Read more
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Xviii. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie „die Zukunft Des Wissens"Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (1). 2000.
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