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    Exchange on the Vocation of Man
    with Thomas Abbt and Moses Mendelssohn
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (1): 237-261. 2018.
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    : Complex aesthetic perception, according to Mendelssohn’s writings between 1755 and 1771, is most alluring if it showcases a breach in the order of perfection. With this, Mendelssohn introduces a shift in our understanding of the artistic act of imitation: Artistic semblance is always lacking, and a painting that does not point to this fact is, in fact, displeasing. This is also the main reason why we enjoy non-beautiful art: in the artistic rendering of an unpleasant ‘object’ we focus on the a…Read more
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    Significant Formation
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37 (1): 71-95. 2016.
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    Ziel dieser Studie ist es, ein umfassendes Bild des Denkens Moses Mendelssohns zu zeichnen.
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    Introduction to the Exchange between Abbt and Mendelssohn
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (1): 229-235. 2018.
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    Who would hold that history is a dialogue? It sounds somewhat striking to concentrate on the second-person perspective in Cassirer’s account of history, since it is obviously true that the past may somewhat “speak to us”, but that it cannot “speak with us” in a truly dialogical sense. What is here and now contrasts with what is stored away in the past, as two different levels of fluidity. Symbols, as the expressions of past consciousness, are no longer in flux as the present ones are, but need t…Read more
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    How the Better Reason Wins: Mendelssohn on Enlightenment
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (4): 540-563. 2020.
    This paper considers Mendelssohn’s attempt at a definition of Enlightenment in terms of Bildung, comprising the theoretical element of the enlightenment of reason with the practical requirements of culture. To avoid a possible dialectics of enlightenment, where the very methods one uses to enlighten harbour the seeds of new blindness, Mendelssohn advocates considering the lively connections between people, the role of traditions and personal relations in the formation of an individual self, and …Read more
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    Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 108 Heft: 3 Seiten: 454-457.
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    Bettina Brentano-von Arnim (1785–1859) is one of the most fascinating writers of German Romanticism. After a late, but spectacular start to her career as an author with the biographically inspired Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (1835) that boldly claims the legacy of Germany's most admired poet, Bettina continues to explore the realm of biography, but also widens her perspective to the pressing social questions of her time. Her message is entertaining, yet clear: we need a new way of think…Read more
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    Denken in Überschriften: Komplexitätsreduktion in der Erscheinung
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (1): 130-132. 2023.
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    In his essay On the necessary limits in the use of beautiful forms Schiller delineates to what degree beautiful packaging of philosophical thoughts is beneficial, as opposed to cases where it merely masks an inconsistent position—defending his philosophical style in contrast to Fichte’s, therewith taking another step in the Horenstreit. This paper shows how Schiller justifies the seeming paradox why his Aesthetic Education is not as nicely written as one might expect from a poet, and why his ins…Read more
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    The Human Vocation in German Philosophy (edited book)
    Bloomsbury. 2023.