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141Violence against the Democratic State, Abuse of Children: Revising the Collective Memory of `1968'?Thesis Eleven 68 (1): 106-109. 2002.The thesis that `1968' resulted in the rise of the individual, on the one hand, and the end of politics, on the other, is critically discussed by interpreting the events of 1968 as a project of emancipation and by distinguishing between the individual and the collective aspects of emancipation.
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58The nascent political philosophy of the european polityJournal of Political Philosophy 10 (3). 2002.
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34When `the Light of the Great Cultural Problems Moves on': On the Possibility of a Cultural Theory of ModernityThesis Eleven 61 (1): 25-40. 2000.Comparative analysis of civilizations has recently revived and has led into a debate about varieties of modernity. This connection between an empirically defined area of study, `civilizations', and a theme that is predominantly seen as conceptual, `modernity', is a peculiar one and raises crucial questions for any social theory. Can `modernity' be located spatio-temporally among the civilizations? Is it itself a civilization (or the successor to all civilizations), or does it not rather refer to…Read more
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20The moment: time and rupture in modern thought (edited book)Liverpool University Press. 2001.Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasizing "the moment". "The moment" demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition, rupture and continuity. This collection addresses the key questions posed by "the moment", considering writers such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Benjamin and Badiou, and elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened up by this notion.
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14The Limits of Hospitality: Political Philosophy, Undocumented Migration and the Local ArenaEuropean Journal of Social Theory 13 (3): 323-341. 2010.How to hospitably welcome refugees and migrants presents urgent questions for social and political thought. Current debates can be attributed to three discursive fields. Liberal versions hold that there are good reasons for political and legal limits of hospitality, critical perspectives advocate a renewed cosmopolitanism and, finally, deconstructive perspectives focus on the demand of unconditional hospitality as an absolute ethical requirement. These concepts trouble the conventional congruenc…Read more
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14The Limits of Hospitality1Paragraph 32 (1): 51-68. 2009.The arrival of migrants in search of a better life puts forward urgent questions for social and political thought. Historically, hospitality has been considered as a religious duty, a sacred commandment of charity and generosity to assign strangers a place — albeit ambivalent — in the community. With the development of the modern nation state, these obligations have been inscribed into the procedures of political deliberation and legislation that determine the social spaces of aliens, residents …Read more
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14L'Europe en guerreMultitudes 4 (4): 81-85. 2003.Europe as a political entity is born with the general public disagreement against the Iraqi war, while governments were divided on that point. Those linked with European opinion are going to build politics together while the others will remain in a corm on market. This new political stage is supported by the global movement
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9Der Gast. Zum Verhaltnis von Ethnologie und PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 51 (2): 311. 2003.
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9Inescapability and Attainability in the Sociology of Modernity: A Note on the Variety of Modes of Social TheorizingEuropean Journal of Social Theory 2 (1): 27-44. 1999.It is a background assumption of much of social science - here called modernist social science - that, in principle, there are neither questions that it cannot decline nor answers that cannot be found. Modernist social science does not accept the issues of inescapability and of attainability; they are names for adversaries that need to be fought against. In contrast to modernism in social theory, this article argues that social theory not only cannot succeed in suppressing the questions of the i…Read more
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7The Nascent Political Philosophy of the European Polity[Link]Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (3): 342-364. 2003.
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6Identities: Time, Difference, and BoundariesBerghahn Books. 2002."Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.
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4Von aussen denkenIn Barbara Henry & Alberto Pirni (eds.), Der Asymmetrische Westen: Zur Pragmatik der Koexistenz Pluralistischer Gesellschaften, Transcript Verlag. pp. 161-186. 2012.
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4War and Social Theory: Reflections after Kosovo: IntroductionEuropean Journal of Social Theory 4 (1): 5-10. 2001.