Christoph Menke
Biographic Data
| ID | 169810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Menke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Menke |
| SIGNATURE | MENKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Division of the West: Orlando Patterson’s Dialectic of Slavery and Freedom (Laudatio for the Hegel Prize 2024) - David Scott and Orlando Patterson, The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue …
The Right of Nonlaw: A Commentary on Simon Faets, Simon Kneip, Eva-Maria Landmesser, Christian Thein, Nils Buchholz and Constantin Luft
Die Geschichtlichkeit des Geistes, materialistisch verstanden
Die Idee der Geistesgeschichte war ein idealistisches Programm. Die Kritik dieses Programms hinterlässt uns aber die Aufgabe, die Geschichtlichkeit des Geistes zu denken: Es gibt keine Geschichte ohne den Geist. Diese These verlangt eine materialistische Erläuterung
La teoría de la segunda naturaleza de Hegel. El “lapso” del espíritu
Mientras que en las concepciones neoaristotélicas de la virtud y la Bildung el concepto de segunda naturaleza describe la culminación exitosa de la educación humana, Hegel utiliza este término para analizar la naturaleza irremediablemente ambigua, incluso conflictiva, del espíritu. El espíritu solo puede realizarse a sí mismo creando (1) una segunda naturaleza como orden de libertad, perdiéndose a sí mismo, o (2) una segunda naturaleza, es decir,…
Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World
Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object’s ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj Žižek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between t…
Why Rights? A Commentary on Malte-Christian Gruber
Malte-Christian Gruber has called for an extension of the concept of rights to living beings and artifacts in order to recognize them “as independent legal subjects.” As Gruber notes, this implies the dissolution of the unity of legal and political subjectivity; the extension of rights is the de-politicization of rights. While the unity of legal and political subjectivity formed the emancipatory claim of the modern discourse of rights, the form o…
Vorwort: Der privatrechtliche Diskurs der Moderne revisited
KJ Kritische Justiz , Seite 43 - 44
Genealogia e crítica
O objetivo principal do artigo "Genealogie und Kritik: zwei Formen ethischer Moralbefragung" de Christoph Menke é apresentar os pontos comuns e divergentes na constituição das concepções éticas de Nietzsche e Adorno -, mais especificamente, no que refere-se ao questionamento crítico da moral ou ética individual (figuras comum a ambos), que, por sua vez, terá uma relação necessária com o conceito de genealogia de Nietzsche e com o conceito de crít…
Spain: For Catalonia
When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one realises that Europe's self-understanding is at stake here, the confrontation becomes an issue of the self-understanding of a European democracy
La dialectique de la raison. Sous bénéfice d’inventaire
Œuvre phare de la littérature philosophique du XXe siècle, la Dialectique de la raison a tenté d'éclairer les formes de domination et les catastrophes politiques dont ses auteurs Max Horkheimer et Theodor W. Adorno ont été les témoins par une réflexion radicale sur le fonctionnement de la rationalité. Adorno et Horkheimer s’interrogent sur la maladie de la raison qu’ils voient à l’œuvre dans la civilisation elle-même. La question qu’ils posent – …
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art
Research Article| June 01 2014 The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art Christoph Menke Christoph Menke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 239–255. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.1.0239 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christoph Menke; The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art. Qui Parle 1 June 2014; 23 (1): 239–255. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/q…
At the Brink of Law: Hannah Arendt's Revision of the Judgment on Eichmann
Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem ends with the repetition, and affirmation, of the court’s judgment on Eichmann. The article argues that this re-performance of the legal act of judgment follows precisely from the self-reflective problematization of legal judgment which Arendt’s book presents as the only way to do justice to the Eichmann case. Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem should thus be read as an exploration of the paradox at the bottom of…
The Self‐Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights
Sometime in the second half of the 18th century, philosophy begins to consider the law in a new way: to consider the law in relation to its other, to consider the law “in (its) difference.” This way of considering the law is new not in that the law is related to an other but in that this relation, and hence the other of the law, are no longer understood in terms of its genesis. The other of the law is no longer the before-the-law from which it em…
Form and Formation of Life: Editorial Note by
Force: Towards an Aesthetic Concept of Life
Force: Towards an Aesthetic Concept of Life1 Christoph Menke (bio) I The “threshold of modernity,” Foucault claimed, is “biological”;2 modernity begins with or as the turn to “life.” In the context of his historical account of successive power formations, Foucault recognized this biological turn of modernity in the fact that the object of the so-called “disciplines” is no longer the “mechanical” body, “the image of which had for so long haunted t…
De la dignité de l'homme à la dignité humaine: Le sujet des droits de l'homme
1. Les droits de l’homme comme droits subjectifs Les droits de l’homme sont une classe particulière de droits subjectifs. L’expression « droits subjectifs » ou « droits au sens subjectif » désigne depuis le xixe siècle (dans l’école historique du droit) ce qui est compris depuis le Moyen Âge finissant, donc très clairement avant l’émergence du droit naturel des Temps modernes (selon une généalogie répandue : depuis Ockham, et à sa suite Suarez et…
Droits subjectifs et dignité humaine. En guise d'introduction
Dans les tudes qu'il a consacres au droit des socits modernes, Max Weber a interprt la figure des droits subjectifs comme le rsultat d'une mutation fondamentale dans la comprhension du droit lgitime (Berechtigung). Le droit traditionnel fixe des devoirs l'individu, lui dit ce qu'il doit faire et le menace des consquences qu'entranerait le fait de s'en abstenir. Un tel ordonnancement des devoirs engendre son verso - sous la forme d'un reflet 1 -de…
Subjektive Rechte und Menschenwürde. Zur Einleitung
Zwei Lesarten subjektiver Rechte In seinen Untersuchungen zum Recht moderner Gesellschaften hat Max Weber die Figur subjektiver Rechte als das Ergebnis eines grundlegenden Wandels im Verständnis von »Berechtigung« gedeutet. Das traditionelle Recht erlegt dem Einzelnen Verpflichtungen auf, sagt ihm, was er tun soll und bedroht ihn mit den Folgen, die eine Unterlassung des Zutuenden haben. Eine solche Ordnung der Verpflichtungen schafft auf ihrer R…
Aesthetic reflection and its ethical significance: A critique of the Kantian solution
In the Critique of Judgment, Kant quotes the traditional view of the relation between the ethical and the aesthetical ('the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good'). However, he elaborates this view in a radically new way: as equivalence between two forms of reflection, between ethical and aesthetic reflection. The article distinguishes three different aspects of aesthetic reflection in Kant and discusses their respective ethical meaning. It…
Le regard esthétique: Affect et violence, plaisir et catharsis
Un des problèmes centraux des discussions sur la relation entre éthique et esthétique tourne autour de la question de la violence. Celle-ci emprunte deux avenues dans le texte. La première traite d'aspects déterminés de la peinture de Francis Bacon, comme la façon dont l'art représente la violence. À ce propos, on formule la thèse que la provocation éthique de cette peinture ne repose pas tant sur le fait qu'elle représente (aussi) la violence, m…
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt's Argument
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialektik
In einem Brief nennt Adorno die "Negative Dialektik" kurz nach ihrem Erscheinen unter seinen Schriften "das philosophische Hauptwerk, wenn ich so sagen darf“. Dieser herausgehobenen Bedeutung, die das Werk für Adorno hatte, entspricht nicht nur die lange Zeit, die er mit der Abfassung des Buchs beschäftigt war, sondern auch die lange Geschichte, die ihre zentralen Motive in seinem Denken haben. Philosophische Begriffsklärung, die Arbeit an "Begri…
Reflections of Equality
This book brings a new perspective—mainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegel—to bear on the problems of equality as discussed in Anglo-American conceptions of liberalism. Menke argues that the idea of equality is at the heart of political modernity. At the same time, political modernity is characterized by an attitude of critical reflection on the notion of equality in view of its consequences for the lives of individuals. Thi…
Spirit and Life: Towards a Genealogical Critique of Phenomenology
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt's Argument
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Virtue and Reflection: "The "Antinomies of Moral Philosophy
Two Kinds of Practice: On the Relation between Social Discipline and the Aesthetics of Existence
At the Brink of Law: Hannah Arendt's Revision of the Judgment on Eichmann
Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem ends with the repetition, and affirmation, of the court’s judgment on Eichmann. The article argues that this re-performance of the legal act of judgment follows precisely from the self-reflective problematization of legal judgment which Arendt’s book presents as the only way to do justice to the Eichmann case. Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem should thus be read as an exploration of the paradox at the bottom of…
De la dignité de l'homme à la dignité humaine: Le sujet des droits de l'homme
1. Les droits de l’homme comme droits subjectifs Les droits de l’homme sont une classe particulière de droits subjectifs. L’expression « droits subjectifs » ou « droits au sens subjectif » désigne depuis le xixe siècle (dans l’école historique du droit) ce qui est compris depuis le Moyen Âge finissant, donc très clairement avant l’émergence du droit naturel des Temps modernes (selon une généalogie répandue : depuis Ockham, et à sa suite Suarez et…
Subjektive Rechte und Menschenwürde. Zur Einleitung
Zwei Lesarten subjektiver Rechte In seinen Untersuchungen zum Recht moderner Gesellschaften hat Max Weber die Figur subjektiver Rechte als das Ergebnis eines grundlegenden Wandels im Verständnis von »Berechtigung« gedeutet. Das traditionelle Recht erlegt dem Einzelnen Verpflichtungen auf, sagt ihm, was er tun soll und bedroht ihn mit den Folgen, die eine Unterlassung des Zutuenden haben. Eine solche Ordnung der Verpflichtungen schafft auf ihrer R…
Critique and Self‐Reflection: The Problematization of Morality
Under the Sign of Adorno
Tragedy and the free spirits: On Nietzsche's theory of aesthetic freedom
Analyse de la triple opposition qui fonde le diagnostic de la modernite etabli par Nietzsche dans «La naissance de la tragedie»: 1)l'opposition entre liberte et verite, 2) l'opposition entre l'affaiblissement de l'art et la justification rationnelle, 3) l'opposition entre la culture artistique et la culture socratique
Kritische Theorie und tragische Erkenntnis
Modernity and Subjectivity: From an Aesthetic Point of View
Influence of Herd Size on Human-Cow Relationships
Large herds pose the risk of worsening human—cattle relationships by reducing human contact and thus increasing the risk of accidents. In a survey on 35 dairy farms in Switzerland and Germany, different aspects of human—cow relationships were investigated. The effects of size of herd compared to other factors are presented here. Size of herds in the study varied from eight to 92 cows. On 35 farms the behavior of stockpersons toward their cows was…
Spiegelungen der Gleichheit
Fragen wir nach den Pflichten und Rechten, die wir einander gegenüber haben, so ist die erste Antwort der Moderne, dass es Pflichten und Rechte der Gleichheit sind: Gleichheit ist die vorrangig nromative Idee der Moderne. Das gilt im Moralischen ebenso wie im Politischen. Gleichheit ist die Grundidee der modernen Moralphilosophie und der modernen Verfassungsstaaten. Die moderne Begründung und Durchsetzung der Gleichheitsidee begleitet jedoch wie …
Critique and Self‐Reflection: The Problematization of Morality
Critique and Deconstruction: A Preliminary Reflection
Two Kinds of Practice: On the Relation between Social Discipline and the Aesthetics of Existence
The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued with the most up-to-date research, a distinguishe…
The Presence of Tragedy
This paper argues that modernity can only be properly understood when tragedy is viewed as one of the conditions internal to it. Modernity and tragedy are not mutually exclusive, as Hegel and Schlegel, for example both argue, but mutually inclusive. Each is determined by the other—as tragic modernity and as modern tragedy
Virtue and Reflection: "The "Antinomies of Moral Philosophy
Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialektik
In einem Brief nennt Adorno die "Negative Dialektik" kurz nach ihrem Erscheinen unter seinen Schriften "das philosophische Hauptwerk, wenn ich so sagen darf“. Dieser herausgehobenen Bedeutung, die das Werk für Adorno hatte, entspricht nicht nur die lange Zeit, die er mit der Abfassung des Buchs beschäftigt war, sondern auch die lange Geschichte, die ihre zentralen Motive in seinem Denken haben. Philosophische Begriffsklärung, die Arbeit an "Begri…
Reflections of Equality
This book brings a new perspective—mainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegel—to bear on the problems of equality as discussed in Anglo-American conceptions of liberalism. Menke argues that the idea of equality is at the heart of political modernity. At the same time, political modernity is characterized by an attitude of critical reflection on the notion of equality in view of its consequences for the lives of individuals. Thi…
Spirit and Life: Towards a Genealogical Critique of Phenomenology
Le regard esthétique: Affect et violence, plaisir et catharsis
Un des problèmes centraux des discussions sur la relation entre éthique et esthétique tourne autour de la question de la violence. Celle-ci emprunte deux avenues dans le texte. La première traite d'aspects déterminés de la peinture de Francis Bacon, comme la façon dont l'art représente la violence. À ce propos, on formule la thèse que la provocation éthique de cette peinture ne repose pas tant sur le fait qu'elle représente (aussi) la violence, m…
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt's Argument
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Aesthetic reflection and its ethical significance: A critique of the Kantian solution
In the Critique of Judgment, Kant quotes the traditional view of the relation between the ethical and the aesthetical ('the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good'). However, he elaborates this view in a radically new way: as equivalence between two forms of reflection, between ethical and aesthetic reflection. The article distinguishes three different aspects of aesthetic reflection in Kant and discusses their respective ethical meaning. It…
De la dignité de l'homme à la dignité humaine: Le sujet des droits de l'homme
1. Les droits de l’homme comme droits subjectifs Les droits de l’homme sont une classe particulière de droits subjectifs. L’expression « droits subjectifs » ou « droits au sens subjectif » désigne depuis le xixe siècle (dans l’école historique du droit) ce qui est compris depuis le Moyen Âge finissant, donc très clairement avant l’émergence du droit naturel des Temps modernes (selon une généalogie répandue : depuis Ockham, et à sa suite Suarez et…
Droits subjectifs et dignité humaine. En guise d'introduction
Dans les tudes qu'il a consacres au droit des socits modernes, Max Weber a interprt la figure des droits subjectifs comme le rsultat d'une mutation fondamentale dans la comprhension du droit lgitime (Berechtigung). Le droit traditionnel fixe des devoirs l'individu, lui dit ce qu'il doit faire et le menace des consquences qu'entranerait le fait de s'en abstenir. Un tel ordonnancement des devoirs engendre son verso - sous la forme d'un reflet 1 -de…
Subjektive Rechte und Menschenwürde. Zur Einleitung
Zwei Lesarten subjektiver Rechte In seinen Untersuchungen zum Recht moderner Gesellschaften hat Max Weber die Figur subjektiver Rechte als das Ergebnis eines grundlegenden Wandels im Verständnis von »Berechtigung« gedeutet. Das traditionelle Recht erlegt dem Einzelnen Verpflichtungen auf, sagt ihm, was er tun soll und bedroht ihn mit den Folgen, die eine Unterlassung des Zutuenden haben. Eine solche Ordnung der Verpflichtungen schafft auf ihrer R…
Force: Towards an Aesthetic Concept of Life
Force: Towards an Aesthetic Concept of Life1 Christoph Menke (bio) I The “threshold of modernity,” Foucault claimed, is “biological”;2 modernity begins with or as the turn to “life.” In the context of his historical account of successive power formations, Foucault recognized this biological turn of modernity in the fact that the object of the so-called “disciplines” is no longer the “mechanical” body, “the image of which had for so long haunted t…
The Self‐Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights
Sometime in the second half of the 18th century, philosophy begins to consider the law in a new way: to consider the law in relation to its other, to consider the law “in (its) difference.” This way of considering the law is new not in that the law is related to an other but in that this relation, and hence the other of the law, are no longer understood in terms of its genesis. The other of the law is no longer the before-the-law from which it em…
Form and Formation of Life: Editorial Note by
The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art
Research Article| June 01 2014 The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art Christoph Menke Christoph Menke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 239–255. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.1.0239 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christoph Menke; The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art. Qui Parle 1 June 2014; 23 (1): 239–255. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/q…
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