Daniel Loick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Loick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Loick |
| SIGNATURE | LOICK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5927-8267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surplus Fascism
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate about the form, causes, and effects of fascism. This article discusses fascism as a response to and driver of surplus crisis. Taking its cue from Marx’s analysis of the importance of relative surplus populations for the functioning of capital, it exp…
Provincializing Frankfurt
Daniel Loick plädiert für eine Dezentrierung und Pluralisierung der kritischen Theorie. Geschult an Marx’ historisch-materialistischem Kritikverständnis, müsse diese ihre Gegenstände, Methoden und Praktiken immer wieder neu auf je konkrete Herrschaftsverhältnisse ausrichten. Dazu bedürfe es keiner dogmatischen Festschreibung dessen, was kritische Theorie (vermeintlich) sei, sondern, im Gegenteil, ihrer Ergänzung und Erweiterung durch benachbarte,…
Towards an Abolitionist Concept of Beauty
Many oppressed groups describe their forms of life in aesthetic categories. This article explores the implicit conception of beauty and the shared characteristics of counter-communal aesthetic practices. It reconstructs the hegemonic conception of beauty via a reading of Schiller and explores two exemplary discourses on the beauty of counter-communities: Peter Weiss' reflections on the aesthetics of resistance and Saidiya Hartman's description of…
Fugitive freedom and radical care
Epistemic standpoint theories have elaborated the effects of social situatedness on epistemic competence: Dominant groups are regularly subject to epistemic blockages that limit the possibility of cognition and knowledge production. Oppressed groups, on the other hand, have access to perceptions and insights that dominant groups lack. This diagnosis can be generalized: Not only our epistemic, but also our normative relation to the world is social…
Analyse collective et consciousness-raising
Dans le contexte des révoltes de Mai 68, certains groupes politiques ont développé des techniques collectives de transformation de soi. On en explore ici deux versions : « l'analyse de groupe », inspirée par la psychanalyse et pratiquée dans le mouvement étudiant ouest-allemand, et le consciousness-raising , utilisé par les féministes radicales étasuniennes. En comparant ces pratiques, on montre que le problème qu'elles posent a concerné un mauva…
Das Anrecht auf Grausamkeit Recht und Affekt; Moria, abolitionistische Strategien
Kritische Justiz analyses the law and its implementation in view of the prevailing social background and breaches the conventional approach to legal questions by detaching it from its economic and political context. The journal contains articles, reports, commentaries and documentations on all important juridical fields and publishes crucial judicial decisions on social matters
The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
This article explores the normative structure of counter-communities. These communities do not simply fulfill a compensatory function for excluded or oppressed groups; their specific sociality is transcendent of society at large. The article outlines this notion of the “superiority of the subjugated” with Hegel and explains its social-theoretical relevance by turning to Marx and Engels. This tradition of thought offers two explanations for the su…
Debating Critical Theory
Axel Honneth is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary critical theorists. His oeuvre, which spans more than four decades of writing—from his early engagement with critique in the Frankfurt School tradition to his theory of recognition and the latest discussions of freedom in modern ethical life and the question of socialism—has been enormously influential in the shaping of current critical theory and beyond. Bringing together …
As if it were a thing.” A feminist critique of consent
If You’re a Critical Theorist, How Come You Work for a University
How can we deal with the apparent contradiction between the normative ideals of critical theory and the practice of the current university system? To answer this question, I consult three classical criticisms of the university system: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the French educator Joseph Jacotot formulated a pedagogical critique of the disciplinary effects of the educational system; at the beginning of the twentieth century, Germ…
Adventures of the Symbolic. Post‐Marxism and Radical Democracy. By WarrenBreckman (New York
Right and Subjectivity
Expression of Contempt’
Römische Subjekte
In this paper, I suggest reading the Second Essay of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals as a perfectionist critique of Roman law. Roman Law, I argue, relies on the fabrication of a specific subjectivity that structurally undermines the conditions of a good life and thus prevents us from fully exhausting our ethical-aesthetical potential. Citing an important source for Nietzsche’s legal thought, legal scholar Albrecht Hermann Post, I reconstruct how …
Terribly upright
Hegel is one of the few philosophers to devote systematic attention to phenomena that can be called pathologies of juridicism. Hegel claims that the law fundamentally contaminates the way in which we relate to ourselves, to others and to the world so that our (inter-) subjectivity becomes ethically deformed, distorted, or deficient. I outline this notion and reconstruct its development in the work of the young Hegel. I reconstruct Hegel’s critiqu…
Juridification and politics
The article starts with the observation of an ambivalence inherent to the politics of juridification. On the one hand, some spheres of the life-world such as the family and the school are often places of exploitation, degradation and humiliation and therefore seem to require the implementation of legal protection for their members. At the same time, the demand for rights seems somehow to grasp too little, would be inadequate or even counterproduc…
Karl Marx - Perspektiven der Gesellschaftskritik
Philosophy, economics, and politics are the three most important coordinates that define the work of Karl Marx. The texts collected in this volume undertake a systematic reflection of these three realms and their inter-relationships in the context of contemporary social and political change. They offer an overview of the breadth of modern methods and ways of thinking that are related to Marx.
Words like violence. Konstellationen des Unvernehmens
As if it were a thing.” A feminist critique of consent
Juridification and politics
The article starts with the observation of an ambivalence inherent to the politics of juridification. On the one hand, some spheres of the life-world such as the family and the school are often places of exploitation, degradation and humiliation and therefore seem to require the implementation of legal protection for their members. At the same time, the demand for rights seems somehow to grasp too little, would be inadequate or even counterproduc…
Fugitive freedom and radical care
Epistemic standpoint theories have elaborated the effects of social situatedness on epistemic competence: Dominant groups are regularly subject to epistemic blockages that limit the possibility of cognition and knowledge production. Oppressed groups, on the other hand, have access to perceptions and insights that dominant groups lack. This diagnosis can be generalized: Not only our epistemic, but also our normative relation to the world is social…
Expression of Contempt’
Words like violence. Konstellationen des Unvernehmens
Karl Marx - Perspektiven der Gesellschaftskritik
Philosophy, economics, and politics are the three most important coordinates that define the work of Karl Marx. The texts collected in this volume undertake a systematic reflection of these three realms and their inter-relationships in the context of contemporary social and political change. They offer an overview of the breadth of modern methods and ways of thinking that are related to Marx.
Römische Subjekte
In this paper, I suggest reading the Second Essay of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals as a perfectionist critique of Roman law. Roman Law, I argue, relies on the fabrication of a specific subjectivity that structurally undermines the conditions of a good life and thus prevents us from fully exhausting our ethical-aesthetical potential. Citing an important source for Nietzsche’s legal thought, legal scholar Albrecht Hermann Post, I reconstruct how …
Terribly upright
Hegel is one of the few philosophers to devote systematic attention to phenomena that can be called pathologies of juridicism. Hegel claims that the law fundamentally contaminates the way in which we relate to ourselves, to others and to the world so that our (inter-) subjectivity becomes ethically deformed, distorted, or deficient. I outline this notion and reconstruct its development in the work of the young Hegel. I reconstruct Hegel’s critiqu…
Juridification and politics
The article starts with the observation of an ambivalence inherent to the politics of juridification. On the one hand, some spheres of the life-world such as the family and the school are often places of exploitation, degradation and humiliation and therefore seem to require the implementation of legal protection for their members. At the same time, the demand for rights seems somehow to grasp too little, would be inadequate or even counterproduc…
Right and Subjectivity
Expression of Contempt’
Adventures of the Symbolic. Post‐Marxism and Radical Democracy. By WarrenBreckman (New York
If You’re a Critical Theorist, How Come You Work for a University
How can we deal with the apparent contradiction between the normative ideals of critical theory and the practice of the current university system? To answer this question, I consult three classical criticisms of the university system: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the French educator Joseph Jacotot formulated a pedagogical critique of the disciplinary effects of the educational system; at the beginning of the twentieth century, Germ…
Debating Critical Theory
Axel Honneth is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary critical theorists. His oeuvre, which spans more than four decades of writing—from his early engagement with critique in the Frankfurt School tradition to his theory of recognition and the latest discussions of freedom in modern ethical life and the question of socialism—has been enormously influential in the shaping of current critical theory and beyond. Bringing together …
As if it were a thing.” A feminist critique of consent
Das Anrecht auf Grausamkeit Recht und Affekt; Moria, abolitionistische Strategien
Kritische Justiz analyses the law and its implementation in view of the prevailing social background and breaches the conventional approach to legal questions by detaching it from its economic and political context. The journal contains articles, reports, commentaries and documentations on all important juridical fields and publishes crucial judicial decisions on social matters
The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
This article explores the normative structure of counter-communities. These communities do not simply fulfill a compensatory function for excluded or oppressed groups; their specific sociality is transcendent of society at large. The article outlines this notion of the “superiority of the subjugated” with Hegel and explains its social-theoretical relevance by turning to Marx and Engels. This tradition of thought offers two explanations for the su…
Fugitive freedom and radical care
Epistemic standpoint theories have elaborated the effects of social situatedness on epistemic competence: Dominant groups are regularly subject to epistemic blockages that limit the possibility of cognition and knowledge production. Oppressed groups, on the other hand, have access to perceptions and insights that dominant groups lack. This diagnosis can be generalized: Not only our epistemic, but also our normative relation to the world is social…
Analyse collective et consciousness-raising
Dans le contexte des révoltes de Mai 68, certains groupes politiques ont développé des techniques collectives de transformation de soi. On en explore ici deux versions : « l'analyse de groupe », inspirée par la psychanalyse et pratiquée dans le mouvement étudiant ouest-allemand, et le consciousness-raising , utilisé par les féministes radicales étasuniennes. En comparant ces pratiques, on montre que le problème qu'elles posent a concerné un mauva…
Provincializing Frankfurt
Daniel Loick plädiert für eine Dezentrierung und Pluralisierung der kritischen Theorie. Geschult an Marx’ historisch-materialistischem Kritikverständnis, müsse diese ihre Gegenstände, Methoden und Praktiken immer wieder neu auf je konkrete Herrschaftsverhältnisse ausrichten. Dazu bedürfe es keiner dogmatischen Festschreibung dessen, was kritische Theorie (vermeintlich) sei, sondern, im Gegenteil, ihrer Ergänzung und Erweiterung durch benachbarte,…
Towards an Abolitionist Concept of Beauty
Many oppressed groups describe their forms of life in aesthetic categories. This article explores the implicit conception of beauty and the shared characteristics of counter-communal aesthetic practices. It reconstructs the hegemonic conception of beauty via a reading of Schiller and explores two exemplary discourses on the beauty of counter-communities: Peter Weiss' reflections on the aesthetics of resistance and Saidiya Hartman's description of…
Surplus Fascism
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate about the form, causes, and effects of fascism. This article discusses fascism as a response to and driver of surplus crisis. Taking its cue from Marx’s analysis of the importance of relative surplus populations for the functioning of capital, it exp…
Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 works) · Critical theory (4 works)