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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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Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |