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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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1The Transcendental Force of Money. Social Synthesis in MarxRethinking Marxism 26 (1): 130-139. 2014.
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101Representation or Sensation? A Critique of Deleuze’s Philosophy of PaintingSympsium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy 13 (1): 59-73. 2009.In this paper I shall present an argument against Deleuze’s philosophy of painting. Deleuze’s main thesis in Logic of Sensation is twofold: [1] he claims that painting is based on a non-representational level; and [2] he claims that this level comes out of the materiality of painting. I shall claim that Deleuze’s theses should be rejected for the following reasons: first, the difference between non-intentional life and the representational world is too strict. I submit that the non-intentional r…Read more
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22Non-Epistemic Self-Awareness. On Heidegger's Reading of Kant's Practical PhilosophyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 36 (1): 90-96. 2005.
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105From Nature to Culture? Diogenes and Philosophical AnthropologyHuman Studies 28 (1): 41-56. 2005.This essay is concerned with the central issue of philosophical anthropology: the relation between nature and culture. Although Rousseau was the first thinker to introduce this topic within the modern discourse of philosophy and the cultural sciences, it has its origin in Diogenes the Cynic, who was a disciple of Socrates. In my essay I (1) historically introduce a few aspects of philosophical anthropology, (2) deal with the nature–culture exchange, as introduced in Kant, then I (3) relate this …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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90Depiction and plastic perception. A critique of Husserl’s theory of picture consciousnessContinental Philosophy Review 40 (2): 171-185. 2007.In this paper, I will present an argument against Husserl’s analysis of picture consciousness. Husserl’s analysis of picture consciousness (as it can be found primarily in the recently translated volume Husserliana 23) moves from a theory of depiction in general to a theory of perceptual imagination. Though, I think that Husserl’s thesis that picture consciousness is different from depictive and linguistic consciousness is legitimate, and that Husserl’s phenomenology avoids the errors of linguis…Read more
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The Historicity of the Eye. A Phenomenological Defense of the Culturalist Conception of PerceptionPhänomenologische Forschungen - Phenomenological Studies - Recherches Phénoménologiques, 2010, Phänomenologische Forschungen - Phenomenological Studies - Recherches Phénoménologiques 107-122. 2010.
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85Action: Phenomenology of wishing and willing in Husserl and HeideggerHusserl Studies 22 (2): 121-135. 2006.The problem of distinguishing between willing and wishing and their significance for both the constitution of our consciousness as well as the constitution of our practical life runs all the way through the history of philosophy. Given the persuasiveness of the problem, it might be helpful to draw a sharp distinction between a metaphysical and a psychological or phenomenological approach to the problem. The first approach may be identified with the positions that Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schope…Read more
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Selbstbewußtseinsmodelle. Moderne Kritiken und systematische Entwürfe zur konkreten Subjektivität (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 52 (4). 1998.
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Is Capital a Thing? Remarks on Piketty’s Concept of CapitalCritical Sociology“Is Capital a Thing? Remarks on Piketty’s Concept of Capital 42 (2): 375-183. 2015.
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Lebendige Vernünftigkeit. Zur Vorbereitung eines menschenangemessenen Konzepts (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 53 (4). 1999.
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2Versprechen-Verzeihen, Erinnern-Vergessen Überlegungen zur Konstitution ethischer SubjektivitätStudia Philosophica 60 77-93. 2001.
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9„Der sittliche Wert eines Menschen beginnt erst dort, wo er bereit ist, für seine Überzeugung sein Leben zu geben.“ [The moral worth of a human being emerges when she is willing to give her life for her convictions] - Henning von Tresckows -.
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36The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of AbstractionLexington Books. 2014.The Capitalist Schema uses marxist philosophy to explain how money frames all social relations in our capitalist world and how money regulates and conditions social references to past and future social life. Consequently, modern life becomes ever more abstract and leveled, and all human desire becomes channeled towards profit and making money.
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Warentausch und Technik als Schematisierung von Gegenständlichkeit bei Adorno und Heidegger,“ in Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen TheorieIn Christian Lotz, Hans Friesen, Markus Wolf & Jakob Meier (eds.), Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen Theorie, Fink. 2012.
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19Representation or Sensation?Symposium 13 (1): 59-72. 2009.In this paper, I shall present an argument against Deleuze’s philosophy of painting. Deleuze’s main thesis in Logic of Sensation is twofold: [1] he claims that painting is based on a non-representational level; and [2] he claims that this level comes out of the materiality of painting. I shall claim that Deleuze’s theses should be rejected for the following reasons: first, the difference between non-intentional life and the representational world is too strict. I submit that the nonintentional r…Read more
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29Review of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Günter Zöller (tr.), Daniel Breazeale (tr.), System of Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (11). 2006.Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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44Gadamer and the legacy of German idealism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1): 131-132. 2011.To be sure, Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy has received increased attention in recent philosophical debates. For although older confrontations, such as Gadamer's debate with Habermas, have receded in the background, scholars such as John McDowell, Cristina Lafont, Ruth Sonderegger, Albrecht Wellmer, and Günther Figal have revitalized some of Gadamer's main philosophical insights and demonstrated the importance of hermeneutics for contemporary philosophy. In addition, the newly-founded Society f…Read more
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7Achtung oder Angst? Zu Heideggers Auslegung des praktischen Selbstbewusstseins bei KantIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 553-563. 2001.
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23Distant 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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The photographic attitude : Barthes with HusserlIn Pol Vandevelde & Sebastian Luft (eds.), Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus, Continuum. 2010.
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Aktive Synthesen: Aus der Vorlesung "Transzendentale Logik" 1920/21. Ergänzungsband zu "Analysen zur passiven Synthesis", Husserliana Bd. XXXI; Natur und Geist. Vorlesungen Sommersemester 1927, Husserliana Bd. XXXII (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 57 (2). 2003.
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24Sehnsüchtiges SeinFichte-Studien 22 155-169. 2003.Es ist bekannt, daß Husserl Fichtes theoretischer Philosophie keine gute Seite abgewinnen konnte. In den 1917 vor Kriegsheimkehrern gehaltenen und 1918 wiederholten Vorträgen über Fichte spricht Husserl von »abstrusen Konstruktionen«, die in der Wissenschaftslehre Fichtes zu finden seien. Nichtsdestotrotz kann man sehen, daß beide Ansätze mehr als bloße Strukturanalogien aufweisen. Es wurde - wenn auch nicht häufig - darauf hingewiesen, daß sachliche Verweise beider Ansätze aufeinander möglich s…Read more
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Klasse und Gewalt. Kritische Anmerkungen aus Marxistischer Sicht zum Verschwinden des Klassenbegriffs in Kritischer Theorie und Post-MarxismusProkla. Zeitschrift Für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft (176): 383-403. 2014.
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26Recollection, Mourning, and the Absolute PastNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 121-141. 2004.
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41Mitmachende 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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