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Paperback Edition of *The Spell of Responsibility*

Rowman & Littlefield International has just published the paperback edition of The Spell of Responsibility: Labour, Criminality, Philosophy. Also, you can save 30% using the code from the flyer.

New article in *Philosophy & Social Criticism*

My latest article on the concept of responsibility is a critical interpretation of Robert Brandom’s use of ‘responsibility’ to make explicit normativity’s binding force.

A new edited Volume: *Gegenwartsdiagnosen*

Es ist soweit: Nach langen Diskussionsrunden und Überarbeitungen ist der Sammelband Gegenwartsdiagnosen. Kulturelle Formen gesellschaftlicher Selbstproblematisierung in der Moderne erschienen, herausgegeben von Thomas Alkemeyer, Nikolaus Buschmann und Thomas Etzemüller. Von mir ist ein kleiner Text zur Kritik an Zeitdiagnosen enthalten, die aus der Soziologie und der Philosophie gern geäußert wird. Denn das Adjektiv “zeitdiagnostisch” kann ziemlich giftig sein…

Interview on the Mistaken Diagnosis “Post-Truth”

There is a short interview with me published in the [special issue of the Philosophie Magazin devoted to Michel Foucault] (https://www.philomag.de/archives/12-philosophie-magazin-sonderausgabe-2019). With Catherine Newmark, I discuss the popular but wrong idea that Foucault or the heterogenous group of “postmodern” thinkers are characterized by contempt for truth or even for the often diagnosed surge in untruth in politics today.

Conference “Philosophie, Kritik, Geschichte” in Frankfurt, 30/31 July 2019 [in German]

Zusammen mit Martin Saar organisiere ich einen Workshop zu Foucaults historisch-philosophischer Praxis, die exemplarisch in seinen 13 Vorlesungen am Collège de France sichtbar wird. Der volle Titel lautet: “Philosophie, Kritik, Geschichte: Foucaults historisch-philosophische Praxis in den Vorlesungen”.

“Democracy and Truth”, 13-15 March in Bremen

The progam for the conference of the DVPW-Section Political Theory and History of Ideas has arrived!

Interview on Politics and Truth

The journal diskurs just published an interview with me by Clelia Minnetian and Janosik Herder. It is mostly about the relationship between politics and truth and what that means for post-structuralist social sciences.

New Article “The Problem of Post-Truth” in *Behemoth*

My essay “The Problem of Post-Truth” has just been published in Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation. I argue that the diagnosis of a “post-truth era” is wrong and dangerous. Yet its popularity attests to the fact, that the diagnosis strikes a nerve. So what is that problem that gives rise to the wrong diagnosis of a “post-truth era” yet is not correctly understood by the diagnosis?

Video of my talk “Fighting with Untruth. The Actuality of a Critique of Reason” [in German]

If you have missed my talk or want to see it again, there is now a video. There are further existing talks in the lecture series “Frankfurter Positionen 2018/19” which you can finde on the

Entsolidarisierung als Programm

In the new issue on “crime” of metamorphosen, you will find a short polemical piece against crime fiction. Why? The short answer is that the genre intends to prevent solidarity with criminals and their crimes.