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5Prä-reflexives Selbstbewusstsein und gemeinsames Handeln (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 72 (4): 607-614. 2024.Review of: Schmid Hans Bernhard. We, Together: The Social Ontology of Us. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 301 S.
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26Privatheitsrechte und politische ÖffentlichkeitIn Hauke Behrendt, Wulf Loh, Matzner Tobias & Catrin Misselhorn (eds.), Privatsphäre 4.0: Eine Neuverortung des Privaten im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, Metzler. pp. 123-143. 2019.The link between the right to privacy and the right to democratic self-determination is often understood to imply that privacy rights have only instrumental value for democratic participation, and that they consist solely in the possibility to retreat from participation in a public. I examine three arguments for an internal link between both sets of rights: The right to privacy protects political public spheres from epistemic inequality, it protects groups in public from a loss of their delibera…Read more
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25Critical Theory and Non-Ideal TheoryIn Hilkje Hänel & Johanna Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory, Routledge. pp. 166-177. 2024.The tradition of critical theory, broadly conceived, is skeptical towards the project of ideal theory on the basis of two specific arguments developed in that tradition. One argument questions whether we are epistemically capable of conceptualizing an ideal society, whereas another argument questions whether any “ideal” can be determined by reference to norms the intelligibility and justification of which remains unchanged throughout processes of social transformation. The author argues that the…Read more
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16Anerkennung und SozialontologieIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. 2018.In verschiedenen philosophischen Traditionen findet sich die These, dass Haltungen der Anerkennung eine zentrale Rolle für die Existenz von sozialen Institutionen spielen. Der Artikel gibt einen kurzen Überblick über zentrale anerkennungstheoretische Modelle in der Sozialontologie.
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17IdeologiekritikIn Michael Quante & David P. Schweikard (eds.), Marx-Handbuch, J.b. Metzler. pp. 238-253. 2016.
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78 Recognition, Constitutive Domination, and EmancipationIn Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold & Titus Stahl (eds.), Recognition and Ambivalence: Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, and Beyond, Columbia University Press. pp. 161-190. 2021.
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4Privatheitsrechte und politische ÖffentlichkeitIn Hauke Behrendt, Wulf Loh, Matzner Tobias & Catrin Misselhorn (eds.), Privatsphäre 4.0: Eine Neuverortung des Privaten im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, Metzler. pp. 123-139. 2019.Der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Recht auf Privatheit und dem Recht auf demokratische Selbstbestimmung wird oft so verstanden, dass Privatheitsrechte lediglich instrumentellen Wert für demokratische Partizipation haben und alleine in der Möglichkeit bestehen, sich von der Teilnahme an der Öffentlichkeit zurückzuziehen. Ich stelle in meinem Beitrag drei Argumente dafür vor, dass ein engerer, interner Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Rechten besteht: Das Recht auf Privatsphäre schützt politische Öffentli…Read more
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20Social Norms and Obligation: Rescuing the Joint Commitment AccountAnalyse & Kritik 46 (1): 67-83. 2024.In Morality and Socially Constructed Norms, Laura Valentini argues that moral obligations to respect social norms can be explained without invoking the concept of ‘joint commitment.’ Her resulting account is, in one important sense, individualistic, and therefore struggles to account for widely held intuitions about the normative significance of social norms. I argue that we can rescue the notion of joint commitment from Valentini’s objections, and incorporate it into a version of her account th…Read more
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47Ideological HopeCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (6): 952-973. 2024.The hope for a better future can, and frequently does, motivate political action. Political hope is therefore often considered a positive force. However, not all forms of political hope are beneficial. Some scholars and activists claim that some kinds of hope also function as an ideology. I argue that we can give a precise meaning to the notion of ‘ideological hope,’ and I argue that to say of a given instance of hope that it is ‘ideological’ means more than that it is irrational or immoral. I d…Read more
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55Oppressive Forms of LifeCritical Horizons 25 (2): 77-93. 2024.Rahel Jaeggi argues that forms of life ought to be the main reference point for a critical theory of society because the internal normative structure of life forms allows for immanent critique. In this article, I extend her model by systematically considering the possibility of oppressive forms of life. Oppressive forms of life are clusters of practices in which subordinated groups are systematically excluded or disabled from participating in the social processes of interpretation through which …Read more
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287Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege. Reconstructing Lukács’s Standpoint TheoryAnálisis 10 (2): 319-349. 2023.Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claims regarding the alleged epistemic privilege of the working class. Additionally, it remains unclear whether later feminist standpoint theories share any co…Read more
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30Ideology as MisrecognitionGlobal Discourse. forthcoming.Theories of recognition often acknowledge that some forms of recognition can be ideological. Only recently have authors also begun to ask whether all ideological phenomena involve a more basic form of misrecognition of epistemic agents. I argue that an expressivist reconstruction of the Marxian theory of ideology can help us to understand what forms of misrecognition are involved in ideology. According to this understanding, ideological discourses reflect the rules of hierarchical social practic…Read more
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493Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimensionJournal of Social Philosophy. 2023.“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have traditionally been highly skeptical towards using idealizations in this way. This skepticism is mirrored by contemporary authors, such as Charles Mills. I argu…Read more
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19IntroductionIn Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold & Titus Stahl (eds.), Recognition and Ambivalence: Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, and Beyond, Columbia University Press. pp. 1-20. 2021.
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29Georg [György] LukácsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023.Substantively revised entry, 2023. Georg (György) Lukács (1885–1971) was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely viewed as one of the founders of “Western Marxism” and as a forerunner of 20th-century critical theory. Lukács is best known for his Theory of the Novel (1916) and History and Class Consciousness (1923). In History and Class Consciousness, he laid out a wide-ranging critique of the phenomenon of “reification” in capitalism and formulated a vision of Marxism as a self-conscio…Read more
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493What (if anything) is ideological about ideal theory?European Journal of Political Theory 23 (2): 135-158. 2024.It is sometimes argued that ideal theories in political philosophy are a form of ideology. This article examines arguments building on the work of Charles Mills and Raymond Geuss for the claim that ideal theories are cognitively distorting belief systems that have the effect of stabilizing unjust social arrangements. I argue that Mills and Geuss neither succeed in establishing that the content of ideal theories is necessarily cognitively defective in the way characteristic for ideologies, nor ca…Read more
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La ley y la perspectiva plural en primera personaIn Adolfo Chaparro Amaya, G. van Roermund & Wilson Herrera Romero (eds.), Quiénes somos "nosotros"?,: o, cómo (no)hablar en primera persona del plural, Editorial Universidad Del Rosario. 2015.
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37Intellectual Bad Conscience and Solidarity with the UnderdogsKrisis 41 (2): 67-69. 2021.There are few aphorisms in Minima Moralia that display a less sympathetic attitude towards their subject than “They, the people”(§ 7). Adorno denounces the “amor intellectualis for [the] kitchen personnel” in the subsequent aphorism, but “They, the people” already seems to confirm all suspicions about the alleged elitism of critical theory. The idea that intellectuals mostly encounter those less educated when “illiterates come to intellectuals wanting letters written for them” is laughable, even…Read more
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17Sozialontologie und AnerkennungIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 491-498. 2018.In verschiedenen philosophischen Traditionen findet sich die These, dass Haltungen der Anerkennung eine zentrale Rolle für die Existenz von sozialen Institutionen spielen. Der Artikel gibt einen kurzen Überblick über zentrale anerkennungstheoretische Modelle in der Sozialontologie.
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15Die normativen Grundlagen immanenter KritikIn José Manuel Romero (ed.), Immanente Kritik Heute: Grundlagen Und Aktualität Eines Sozialphilosophischen Begriffs, Transcript Verlag. pp. 31-58. 2014.
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32Recognition, Constitutive Domination, and EmancipationIn Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold & Titus Stahl (eds.), Recognition and Ambivalence: Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, and Beyond, Columbia University Press. pp. 161-190. 2021.The claim that recognition is ambivalent is best understood as meaning that social recognition is both a precondition for individual freedom and a source of freedom-undermining domination.1 The first part of the claim entails that we can only be truly autonomous or realize ourselves once we receive a certain kind of recognition from other people. The second part of the claim — at least on what I view as the dominant reading — entails that recognition (necessarily or at least potentially) constra…Read more
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65Immanent CritiqueRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2021.When we criticize social institutions and practices, what kinds of reasons can we offer for such criticism? Political philosophers often assume that we must rely on universal moral principles that are not necessarily connected to the particular social practices of our communities. Traditionally,continental critical theory has rejected this claim through its endorsement of the method of immanent critique. Immanent critique is a critique of social practices that draws on norms already present with…Read more
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62Recognition and Ambivalence: Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, and Beyond (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2021.Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition deprives individuals and communities of something essential for their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have questioned whether recognition is implicated in structures of domination, arguing that the desire to be recognized …Read more
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601Privacy in Public: A Democratic DefenseMoral Philosophy and Politics 7 (1): 73-96. 2020.Traditional arguments for privacy in public suggest that intentionally public activities, such as political speech, do not deserve privacy protection. In this article, I develop a new argument for the view that surveillance of intentionally public activities should be limited to protect the specific good that this context provides, namely democratic legitimacy. Combining insights from Helen Nissenbaum’s contextualism and Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, I argue that strategic surve…Read more
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28Debating Critical Theory: Engagements with Axel Honneth (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.Bringing together leading scholars in contemporary social and political philosophy, this volume takes up the central themes of Axel Honneth’s work as a starting point for debating the present and future of critical theory, as a form of socially grounded philosophy for analyzing and critiquing society today.
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The Moral Psychology of Hope: An IntroductionIn Claudia Blöser & Titus Stahl (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Hope: An Introduction (The Moral Psychology of the Emotions), Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 1-12. 2019.
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59Political Hope and Cooperative CommunityIn Claudia Blöser & Titus Stahl (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Hope: An Introduction (The Moral Psychology of the Emotions), Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 265-284. 2019.This chapter pursues three aims: First, I propose three different roles that hope can play in political philosophy - one instrumental, one constitutive, and the other justificatory. I then examine three major approaches to political hope, exemplified by Bloch, Rorty, and contemporary liberal authors in order to distinguish three approaches to the justificatory question. I argue that they make opposite mistakes with regard to the importance of hope. Whereas Bloch solves the problem of justificati…Read more
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70The Moral Psychology of Hope: An Introduction (The Moral Psychology of the Emotions) (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.
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37Paul Redding, Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (review)Critical Horizons 9 (1): 109-112. 2008.
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71Lukács and the Frankfurt SchoolIn Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer & Axel Honneth (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, Routledge. pp. 237-250. 2018.The work of the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukács is a constant source of controversy in the history of the Frankfurt School. All leading thinkers of that theoretical tradition have struggled with Lukács’s theory. On the one hand, it was an inspiration for their attempts to come to terms with the oppressive features of capitalist modernity. On the other hand, both its political conclusions and Lukács’s actual philosophical submission to Soviet orthodoxy seemed to show that his theoretical framework…Read more
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Department Of Philosophy
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Groningen, Netherlands
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Critical Theory |
Social Ontology |
Karl Marx |
Oppression |
Privacy Rights |
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