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21Ding und Verdinglichung: Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der Kritischen Theorie (edited book)Wilhelm Fink. 2012.
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65Poetry as anti-discourse: formalism, hermeneutics, and the poetics of Paul Celan (review)Continental Philosophy Review 44 (4): 491-510. 2011.I argue from a hermeneutic point of view that formal elements of poetry can only be identified because poetry is based on both the phenomenon and the conception of poetry, both of which precede the attempt to identify formal elements as the defining moment of poetry. Furthermore, I argue with Gadamer that poetry is based on a rupture with and an epoche of our non-poetic use of language in such a way that it liberates “fixed” universal aspects of everyday language, and that through establishing i…Read more
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2Faith, Freedom, Conscience. Luther, Fichte, and the Principle of InwardnessIn Jennifer Hockenbery (ed.), The Devil's Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition, Fortress Press. pp. 95-101. 2011.
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22Joona Taipale, Phenomenology and Embodiment: Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity: Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2014, 243 pp, ISBN 978-0810129504, US-$ 35.95 , US-$ 79.95 (review)Husserl Studies 31 (2): 183-188. 2015.Phenomenology and Embodiment. Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity is a surprising study, given that much has been written during the last decades on phenomenology and embodiment. Although its author, Joona Taipale, does not offer revolutionarily new insights into Husserl’s phenomenology , the book is an outstanding contribution to phenomenology in general, and to Husserlian phenomenology in particular. For although it covers a broad range of topics within the area of a phenomenology of …Read more
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111The Return of Abstract Universalism. A Critique of David Graeber’s Concept of Society and CommunismRadical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 245-262. 2015.
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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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19Cognitivism 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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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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1The Transcendental Force of Money. Social Synthesis in MarxRethinking Marxism 26 (1): 130-139. 2014.
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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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Xviii. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie „die Zukunft Des Wissens"Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (1). 2000.
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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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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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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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Selbstbewußtseinsmodelle. Moderne Kritiken und systematische Entwürfe zur konkreten Subjektivität (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 52 (4). 1998.
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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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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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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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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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18Representation 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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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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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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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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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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