Christoph Menke

Christoph Menke (2011)

Christoph Menke (born November 22, 1958 in Cologne ) is a German philosopher and Germanist and has been a professor of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main since 2009 . He is considered an important representative of the 'third generation' of the Frankfurt School .

Life

Menke studied philosophy, German and art history from 1977 to 1980 in Heidelberg , from 1980 to 1983 German and philosophy with Albrecht Wellmer in Konstanz . There he was in 1987 with a dissertation on the topic: After the hermeneutics. Doctorate on the negativity of aesthetic experience . The habilitation took place in 1995 at the Free University of Berlin due to the text Tragedy in the Moral. Hegel and the freedom of modernity . From 1988 to 1991 was Menke assistant in Konstanz from 1991 to 1997, Berlin, 1997-1999 Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research , New York , then professor of philosophy focusing ethics and aesthetics at the University of Potsdam , since In the summer semester of 2009 a professorship for practical philosophy (with special consideration of legal philosophy and political philosophy ) in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

In addition, Menke performed the following functions: from 1995 to 2004 co-applicant of the Graduate School Representation-Rhetoric-Knowledge at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) ; from 2001 co-director of the human rights center at the University of Potsdam; from 2003 project manager in the SFB 626 Aesthetic experience in the sign of the dissolution of boundaries of the arts ; from 2005 spokesman for the Graduate School Life Forms and Life Knowledge .

Menke also received a Heisenberg scholarship and was visiting professor at the University of Potsdam, at the Free University of Berlin, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City , at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University (both New York) and was from 2003 to 2005 a fellow at the Max Weber College for Social and Cultural Research at the University of Erfurt . Menke is on the editorial boards of various journals ( Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory ; Philosophy and Social Criticism ; Revue d'Esthétique ; Polar ).

He is the brother of the literary scholar Bettine Menke, who teaches in Erfurt .

Research priorities

Menke works mainly on topics of political and legal philosophy ( democracy and equality ; history and concept of subjective rights ; human rights ), on theories of subjectivity (skills and action; mind and inner nature), on ethics (success and failure; theories of the tragic ) and on aesthetics (aesthetics of modernity ; tragedy and theater ). Since the summer semester of 2009, Menke has headed the research project Normativity and Freedom in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence , which aims to investigate how freedom is founded as social normativity and why freedom is always at the same time freedom from social participation and thus from normativity. Against this background, particular attention is paid to the figure of subjective rights that characterizes the form of government in modern societies .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• The sovereignty of art: Aesthetic experience according to Adorno and Derrida , Frankfurt / Main: Athenaeum 1988; Revised paperback edition Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1991, 2nd edition 2000
  • French translation: Paris: Armand Colin 1994
  • Spanish translation: Madrid: Visor 1996 (La balsa de la Medusa, 85)
  • English translation: Cambridge, Mass .: MIT Press 1998 (Paperback 1999)
• Tragedy in the moral. Justice and freedom according to Hegel , Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1996
• Reflections of Equality , Berlin: Academy 2000; Reflections of equality. Political Philosophy after Adorno and Derrida , expanded paperback edition, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004
  • English translation: Stanford: Stanford University Press 2006
• The presence of tragedy. Experiment about judgment and play , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2005
  • Croatian translation: Zagreb 2008
  • Spanish translation: Madrid: Machado 2008 (La balsa de la Medusa, 165)
  • English translation: Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett , transl. James Phillips; New York: Columbia University Press 2009; Review by Joshua Billings, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009-10-63
• (with Arnd Pollmann ): Philosophy of Human Rights. Introduction , Hamburg: Junius 2007
• Force. A basic concept of aesthetic anthropology , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2008; Book review by Michael Mayer, in: artnet , January 22, 2009 [1]
• The power of art , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2013
• Critique of the Right , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-58625-9
• On the day of the crisis. Columns , Berlin: August Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-941360-62-4 .
• Autonomy and Liberation. Studies on Hegel , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-29866-4
• ( inter alia) "Law and Violence. Christoph Menke in Dialogue", Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1526105080

Editorships

• (Ed. With Martin Seel ): In defense of reason against its lovers and despisers , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1993
• (Ed.): Paul de Man , Die Ideologie des Ästhetischen , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1993
• (Ed. With Andrea Kern ): Philosophy of Deconstruction. On the relationship between normativity and practice , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2002
• (Ed. With Joachim Küpper ): Dimensions of aesthetic experience , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2003
• (Ed. With Eckart Klein ): Human rights and bioethics , Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2004
• (Ed. With Eva Horn , Bettine Menke ): Literature as Philosophy - Philosophy as Literature , Munich: Fink 2005; Google books
• (Ed. With Bettine Menke ): Tragedy. Tragedy. Spectacle. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-934344-85-3 .
• (Ed. With Juliane Rebentisch ): Creation and Depression. Freedom in contemporary capitalism , Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-86599-126-3

Web links

• Menke at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Frankfurt am Main [2]
• Complete list of Menkes publications [3]
• Menke in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main [4]
• Biobibliography in Trivium [5]
• Menke in diaphanes (with photograph) [6]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001), Vol. 2, p. 2071.
2. ↑ Project description normativity and freedom