The Sovereignty of Art(Updated) Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by ChristophMenke, Thomas Mccarthy, Neil Solomon Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1999 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63195-2, ISBN: 0-262-63195-4
"Recent discussions of aesthetics, whether in the hermeneutic or the analytic tradition, understand the place of art and aesthetic experience according to a model of "autonomy"--as just one among the many modes of experience that make up the realm of reason, situated beside the other "spheres of value." In contrast, Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida view art and aesthetic e ..."
Force(1st Edition) A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology by ChristophMenke, Gerrit Jackson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-4973-2, ISBN: 0-8232-4973-5
"The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. The claim is that the historical invention of aesthetics was not about expanding the range of legitimate objects of philosophical inquiry-these objects all existed before aesthetics. Rather, aesthetics, by introducing the category of the " ..."
"This book brings a new perspectivemainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegelto 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 indi ..."
Tragic Play Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) by Professor ChristophMenke, James Phillips Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14556-5, ISBN: 0-231-14556-X
" Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-c ..."
Force(1st Edition) A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology by ChristophMenke, Gerrit Jackson Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-4972-5, ISBN: 0-8232-4972-7
"The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten’s Aesthetics and Kant’s Critique of Judgment. The claim is that the historical invention of aesthetics was not about expanding the range of legitimate objects of philosophical inquiry―these objects all existed before aesthetics. Rather, aesthetics, by introducing the category of the “ ..."
"The Power of Judgment both attests to the importance of judgment in art criticism and argues against its determining verdicts. Comprised of a lecture by Christoph Menke and two respective responses to it by Daniel Loick and Isabelle Graw, this book brings together a dialogue on judgment originally begun at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste / Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Texts by Daniel Loick, Christoph Menke. ''Pointing to the ne ..."
"Recent discussions of aesthetics, whether in the hermeneutic or the analytic tradition, understand the place of art and aesthetic experience according to a model of "autonomy"--as just one among the many modes of experience that make up the realm of reason, situated beside the other "spheres of value." In contrast, Thedor Adorno and Jacques Derrida view art and aesthetic experience as a medium for the dissolution of nonaesthetic reason, ..."
Force A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology by ChristophMenke Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-5042-4, ISBN: 0-8232-5042-3
"Commemorating Adorno's 100th birthday, these volumes consider the German writer's still-radical theory that capitalism feeds the people the products of a culture industry the opposite of true art to keep them passive and politically apathetic. Volume 1, collected essays, focuses on aesthetic, cultural, historical and theological aspects of his theories; This book, Volume 2 documents the exhibition, which featured Bruce Nauman, Ad Reinha ..."
"Edited by Michael Hirsch, Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen Texts by Norbert Bolz, Peter Bürger, Alex Demirovic, Diedrich Diederichsen, Alexander García Düttmann, Michael Hirsch, Christoph Menke, Willem van Reijen, Martin Seel The first volume of Adorno. The Possibility of the Impossible comprises theoretical essays which investigate the relevance of Adorno’s critical theory for the present. The tight connection between individu ..."
Law and violence(1st Edition) ChristophMenke in dialogue (Critical Powers MUP Series) by ChristophMenke Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0508-0, ISBN: 1-5261-0508-X
"Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming ..."
"Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that ‘all men are created equal’. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamental political act – it is the political act in which the political community creates itself in relation to traditional systems of domination. But because it was generally assumed that the subject of these rights is the individual human being, t ..."
Law and violence(1st Edition) ChristophMenke in dialogue (Critical Powers MUP Series) by ChristophMenke, Alessandro Ferrara Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0507-3, ISBN: 1-5261-0507-1
"Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming ..."
"Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that ‘all men are created equal’. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamental political act – it is the political act in which the political community creates itself in relation to traditional systems of domination. But because it was generally assumed that the subject of these rights is the individual human being, t ..."
Law and Violence ChristophMenke in Dialogue (Critical Powers) by ChristophMenke Digital, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Manchester University Press Melland Schill Studies ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0510-3, ISBN: 1-5261-0510-1
"Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming ..."
Parallax The Dialectics of Mind and World (Paperback) by Dominik Finkelde Paperback, Published 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-350-25337-7, ISBN: 1-350-25337-5