Autor: Dominik Finkelde

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by e …

Von einer Katastrophe ist schnell die Rede. Doch was, wenn überhaupt etwas, hat der Klimawandel mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gemein? Was ein Terroranschlag mit einem Börsencrash? Interessanterweise werd …

Wie lassen sich ethisch motivierte Taten denken, die sich auf keine gegebenen sittlichen Vorstellungen und keine Legalität stützen können? Das heißt: Taten, welche – umgekehrt – die gegebenen normati …

Biopolitik und Bioethik sind zwei zentrale Felder der wissenschaftlichen wie gesellschaftlichen Diskussion. In diesem Band fragen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler nach der Funktion ethischer Diskur …

Badious Philosophie des Ereignisses steht im Mittelpunkt seiner einflussreichen Theorie revolutionärer Politik. Dabei hat er viel Zustimmung für die rigorose und systematische Entfaltung seiner Theor …

Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism – known under titles such as ‘New Realism, ‘ ‘Continental Realism, ‘ or ‘Speculative Materialism’ – have shown that …

The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called ‘postmodern age’ of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservativ …

Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism – known under titles such as ‘New Realism, ‘ ‘Continental Realism, ‘ or ‘Speculative Materialism’ – have shown that …

An advanced introduction to Benjamin’s work and its actualization for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work …

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 chan …

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 chan …

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially a …

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially a …

The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called "postmodern age" of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and c …