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The debate between moral realism and antirealism plays an important role in contemporary metaethics as well as in the interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy. This volume aims to clarify whether, and in what sense, Kant is a moral realist, an antirealist, or something in-between. Based on an explication of the key metaethical terms, internationally recognized Kant scholars discuss the question of how Kant's moral philosophy should be understood in this regard. All camps in the metaethical field have their inhabitants: Some contributors read Kant's philosophy in terms of a more or less robust moral realism, objectivism, or idealism, and some of them take it to be a version of constructivism, constitutionism, or brute antirealism. In any case, all authors introduce and defend their terminology in a clear manner and argue thoughtfully and refreshingly for their positions. With contributions of Stefano Bacin, Jochen Bojanowski, Christoph Horn, Patrick Kain, Lara Ostaric, Fred Rauscher, Oliver Sensen, Elke Schmidt, Dieter Schönecker, and Melissa Zinkin.

"Au premier abord, les visées et les méthodes philosophiques de Spinoza et de Sartre semblent radicalement différentes. Or, ces différences radicales se trouvent dépassées dès qu'on se penche sur une problématique commune à ces deux philosophes : la production et le maintien de la communauté libre. Une interrogation philosophique sur la question de l'articulation de l'éthique et de la politique nous donnera la possibilité d'évaluer ces philosophes comme les constituants d'une certaine théorie anticontractualiste se fondant spécifiquement sur l'idée de l'émancipation perpétuelle de l'individu dans et par la communauté."--Page 4 of cover

We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive sense in which these are critical times. The world's current state of flux gives us a unique window of opportunity for shaping a new international order that will allow us to cope with current and future global crises.In Critical Theory in Critical Times, eleven of the most distinguished critical theorists offer new perspectives on recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order. Essays from Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst, Wendy Brown, Christoph Menke, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Amy Allen, Penelope Deutscher, and Charles Mills address pressing issues including international human rights and democratic sovereignty, global neoliberalism, novel approaches to the critique of capitalism, critical theory's Eurocentric heritage, and new directions offered by critical race theory and postcolonial studies. Sharpening the conceptual tools of critical theory, the contributors to Critical Theory in Critical Times reveal new ways of expanding the diverse traditions of the Frankfurt School in response to some of the most urgent and important challenges of our times.

Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847–Prague, 1914) contributed significantly to some of the central themes of Austrian philosophy. This collection contributes to assessing the specificity of his theses in relation with other Austrian philosophers. Although strongly inspired by his master, Franz Brentano, Marty developed his own theory of intentionality, understood as a sui generis relation of similarity. Moreover, he established a comprehensive philosophy of language, or "semasiology", based on descriptive psychology, and in which the utterer's meaning plays a central role, anticipating Grice's pragmatic semantics. The present volume, including sixteen articles by scholars in the field of the history of Austrian philosophy and in contemporary philosophy, aims at exposing some of Marty's most important contributions in philosophy of mind and language, but also in other fields of research such as ontology and metaphysics. As archive material, the volume contains the edition of a correspondence between Marty and Hans Cornelius on similarity. This book will interest scholars in the fields of the history of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, historians of phenomenology, and, more broadly, contemporary theoretical philosophers.

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin's corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of "the people" in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book's contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.

Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, Pierre Macherey, Michael Naas, and Judith Revel, among others, trace this exchange in debates over the possibilities of genealogy and deconstruction, immanent and transcendent approaches to philosophy, and the practical and theoretical role of the archive.

Die immer weiter ausgefeilte juristische Methode und Fachsprache, sind einerseits Voraussetzungen für die Ausdifferenzierung der Rechtswissenschaften, bedeuten jedoch anderseits Schwierigkeiten für die Zusammenarbeit der Jurisprudenz mit anderen Wissenschaften. In dieser Entwicklung liegt jedoch nicht nur ein soziologisch zu beschreibender Prozeß der Ausdifferenzierung; das Recht ist vielmehr eine gesellschaftliche Tatsache, die Auswirkungen auf andere gesellschaftliche Prozesse besitzt und von diesen beeinflußt wird. Eine Rechtswissenschaft, die nicht in der Lage ist, durch Interdisziplinarität diesen vielfältigen Dimensionen ihres Forschungsgegenstandes gerecht zu werden, verliert die Möglichkeit, ihn angemessen zu untersuchen. Zugleich fehlen anderen Disziplinen, die die Auswirkungen des Rechts auf ihren Forschungsgegenstand berücksichtigen müssen, die für ihre Zwecke kompetent aufgearbeiteten juristischen Informationen. Die Forderung nach Interdisziplinarität aufzustellen, bedeutet jedoch nicht, daß sie auch möglich ist. Ihre wissenschaftstheoretischen, organisatorischen und soziologischen Bedingungen, werden im vorliegenden Band interdisziplinär und international grundsätzlich und anhand ausgewählter Problembereiche analysiert und Lösungsansätzen zugeführt. / »Interdisciplinarity in Jurisprudence« -- The mutual influences of law, society and natural environments require an interdisciplinary analysis of law. Specific methods and language limit its possibility. In the present volume members of different disciplines and different countries discuss the epistemological, organizational and sociological preconditions of interdisciplinarity in jurisprudence in international and interdisciplinary perspective, referring also to concrete examples

Der Begriff der Identität, ehemals viel diskutiert, scheint heute an Sprengkraft verloren zu haben. Die Gründe hierfür sind wohl darin zu suchen, dass Medialität mittlerweile an die Stelle von Anthropozentrik und Subjektzentrierung getreten ist. Daher wir

Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vázquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.

How has Europe been perceived throughout its varied history? This volume shows that Europe was not, and is not, just a political project, but rather since the antique, has always also been an aesthetic project. Perspectives from art history, musicology, the history of medicine, theology, pedagogy, sociology and theater studies complement one another to create a multifaceted image of the continent, in which the aim was and still is to use the arts and aesthetic education to confront the real fragmentation in various eras. In times of a growing critique of Europe, this book is of great importance for the current moment.

Eine Kritik derkommunitaristischen Moralphilosophie: Offene Gesellschaft - geschlossene Gemeinschaft -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- Kapitel 1: Verlust und Revitalisierung der Gemeinschaft -- 1.1. Zur Bedeutung der kommunitaristischen Kritik -- 1.2. Die Selbstunterminierung des Liberalismus -- 1.3. Die Revitalisierung der Gemeinschaften -- 1.4. Die Symbiose zwischen Ordnung und Freiheit -- Kapitel 2: Verklärung und Sehnsucht -- 2.1. Kritik der Gemeinschaftsvorstellung -- 2.2. Die problematische Revitalisierung