Christoph Menke

ORGANIZADOR:Antônio José Teixeira Martins

ORGANIZADOR:João Paulo Bachur

Dono de uma formação erudita e abrangente, Christoph Menke é referência obrigatória para a Teoria do Direito. Sua abordagem combina aportes da Filosofia (em especial a Estética) com Sociologia e Teoria do Direito, a fim de compreender fenômenos como a relação entre capitalismo, sociedade civil, direito, força e violência, a estrutura dos direitos fundamentais e dos direitos subjetivos em uma abordagem clara e inovadora. Neste livro, aborda temas como a diferença entre direito e vingança, direitos subjetivos, direitos humanos, liberdade e dominação. Sempre em tom crítico e analítico, os textos de Menke propiciam uma renovada reflexão sobre o Direito moderno. Trata-se de obra fundamental para todos aqueles que buscam uma visão aprofundada do fenômeno jurídico no mundo moderno.

IDP - Linha Direito Comparado - Direito e violência: estudos críticos

Wir leben in einer Zeit gescheiterter Befreiungen. Denn bei Lichte besehen haben alle Befreiungsversuche früher oder später neue Formen der Herrschaft und damit der Knechtschaft hervorgebracht. Für Christoph Menke verlangt die Erklärung dieser Situation nach einer Umkehrung des Blicks. Anstatt uns einfach dem nächsten Befreiungsprojekt zuzuwenden, müssen wir analysieren, wie die bisherigen Befreiungsversuche verlaufen sind. Vor allem ihr Anfang ist dabei entscheidend – die gewöhnliche, aber faszinierende Erfahrung, dass eine Gewohnheit, die uns knechtet, plötzlich bricht. Sie zu bejahen heißt, in die Praxis der Befreiung einzutreten. Aus dieser Grundthese entwickelt Menke eine bahnbrechende Theorie der Befreiung, die eine Revision der üblichen – in Natur oder Gesellschaft verankerten – Freiheitsvorstellungen beinhaltet. Es stellt sich heraus: Freiheit und Herrschaft sind unauflöslich ineinander verstrickt, und Befreiung ist nicht die Vorgeschichte der Freiheit, sondern ihre Vollzugsweise. Dies veranschaulichen zwei exemplarische Befreiungsnarrative, auf die sich dieses Buch maßgeblich stützt: die Exodus-Erzählung aus dem 2. Buch Mose und die Geschichte von Walter White in der Fernsehserie Breaking Bad.

Theorie der Befreiung

Slavoj Žižek

Dominik Finkelde

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 change in that object's ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj Žižek's The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics and aesthetics. With articles written by internationally renowned philosophers such as Frank Ruda, Graham Harman, Paul Livingston and Zizek himself, this book shows how modes of parallax remain in numerous modern theoretical disciplines, such as the Marxian parallax in the critique of political economy and politics; and the Hegelian parallax in the concept of the work of art, while also being important to debates surrounding speculative realism and dialectical materialism. Spanning philosophy, parallax is then a rich and fruitful concept that can illuminate the studies of those working in epistemology, ontology, German Idealism, political philosophy and critical theory.

The Dialectics of Mind and World

Parallax

ästhetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida

Die Souveränität der Kunst

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 self-reflectively aware of its own violence. The volume contains responses by María del Rosario Acosta López, Daniel Loick, Alessandro Ferrara, Ben Morgan, Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Alexander García Düttmann. It concludes with Menke's reply to his critics.

Christoph Menke in dialogue

Law and violence

Isabelle Graw

The Value of Critique casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art--critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor of evaluation, which advocates alternate modes of judgment aimed at finding the intrinsic "value" of a given work rather than picking apart its intentions and relative success. This book's contributors explore the relationship between these two practices, finding that one cannot exist with the other. As soon as a critic decides an object is worthy enough of their interest and time to critique it, they have imbued that object with a certain value. Similarly, theories of value are typically marked by a critical impetus: as much as critique takes part in the construction of evaluations, bestowing something with value can then trigger critiques. Assembling essays from an international array of authors, this book is the first to put value, critique, and artistic labor in conversation with one another, making clear just how closely all three are related.

Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour

The Value of Critique

Juliane Rebentisch

Gerechtigkeit und Gesellschaft : Potsdamer Seminar

Axel Honneth

Christoph Menke - Eggers

In this book Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction.

Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida

The Sovereignty of Art

Thomas McCarthy

In this book Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. 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 experience as a medium for the dissolution of nonaesthetic reason, an experientially enacted critique of reason. Art is not only autonomous, following its own law, different from nonaesthetic reason, but sovereign: it subverts the rule of reason.In this book Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. The error, which already appeared in romanticism, is to conceive of the sovereignty of art as reflecting the superiority of its knowledge. For art entails no knowledge and its negativity toward reason cannot be articulated as an insight into the nature of reason: art is sovereign not despite, but because of, its autonomy. Menke brings to his arguments a firm grounding in both philosophy and literary studies, as well as familiarity with German, French, and American sources.

Christoph Menke

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