Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung

ISSN: 2192-1482

First published: February 15, 1953

Edited by: Christoph Demmerling, Andrea Marlen Esser, Hans-Peter Krüger, Christoph Menke

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Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

A bimonthly journal of international philosophical research

As an open forum for discussion, the German Journal of Philosophy promotes dialogue and communication between different philosophical cultures, transcending any one school of thought.

The journal primarily publishes studies that are actively engaged in modern international philosophical discourse and that explore new conceptual approaches.

In addition to scholarly papers, essays, interviews, and symposia, the journal publishes discoveries from philosophical archives, discussions, and book critiques.

Current Special Topics:

2021-6: Urteil und Urteilskraft

2021-5: Tun und Lassen. Daoistische Perspektiven

2021-4: Adornos Naturbegriff

2021-3: Logik der Herabsetzung

2021-2: Jügen Habermas: "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie"

2021-1: Corona - eine Zwischenbilanz

2020-6: Transkulturelle Perspektiven auf Gerechtigkeit

2020-5: Technik und organische Formen

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Volume 68 Issue 6

December 2020

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December 9, 2020

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Sartres Lösung zur Antinomie der sozialen Realität in der Kritik der dialektischen Vernunft

Sebastian Gardner December 9, 2020

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Critics have standardly regarded Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason as an abortive attempt to overcome the subjectivist individualism of his early philosophy, motivated by a recognition that Being and Nothingness lacks ethical and political significance, but derailed by Sartre’s Marxism. In this paper I offer an interpretation of the Critique which, if correct, shows it to offer a coherent and highly original account of social and political reality, which merits attention both in its own right and as a reconstruction of the philosophical foundation of Marxism. The key to Sartre’s theory of collective and historical existence in the Critique is a thesis carried over from Being and Nothingness : intersubjectivity on Sartre’s account is inherently aporetic, and social ontology reproduces in magnified form its limited intelligibility, lack of transparency, and necessary frustration of the demands of freedom. Sartre’s further conjecture – which can be formulated a priori but requires a posteriori verification – is that man’s collective historical existence may be understood as the means by which the antinomy within human freedom, insoluble at the level of the individual, is finally overcome. The Critique provides therefore the ethical theory promised in Being and Nothingness .

Hinter das Bewusstsein zurück

Stephan Zimmermann December 9, 2020

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The state of recent as well as older research on social ontology suggests a paradigmatic approach, according to which it is our consciousness that must provide the framework for conceptualising the social. I, however, argue that Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule-following opens up a new horizon for the ontology of the social. The fact that the rules of our language are social in nature and that we need not be aware of them in order to follow them shifts the problem to what lies behind consciousness. The ontological conceptualisation of the social must focus on our implicit knowledge instead, which is always an enabling condition for our consciousness: for we share some of this implicit knowledge with others, as can be seen from Wittgenstein and the case of language.

Automatisierte Ungleichheit

Rainer Mühlhoff December 9, 2020

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This paper sets out the notion of a current “biopolitical turn of digital capitalism” resulting from the increasing deployment of AI and data analytics technologies in the public sector. With applications of AI-based automated decisions currently shifting from the domain of business to customer (B2C) relations to government to citizen (G2C) relations, a new form of governance arises that operates through “algorithmic social selection”. Moreover, the paper describes how the ethics of AI is at an impasse concerning these larger societal and socioeconomic trends and calls for an ethics of AI that includes, and acts in close alliance with, social and political philosophy. As an example, the problem of Predictive Analytics is debated to make the point that data-driven AI (Machine Learning) is currently one of the main ethical challenges in the ethics of AI.

Schwerpunkt: Transkulturelle Perspektiven auf Gerechtigkeit

Franziska Dübgen December 9, 2020

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Das Universale konstruieren: Eine transkulturelle Herausforderung

Paulin J. Hountondji December 9, 2020

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This article starts by critically engaging with exclusion within the hegemonic European philosophical discourses based on racist and civilisational narratives both during the colonial past and in the present. As a counter-strategy, it rejects any defence of peripheral cultures based on particularist narratives or essentialising identities. In this light, it critically discusses the project of ethnophilosophy in the African context. The author defines relativism as a trap that imprisons postcolonial subjects rather than truly liberating them. The project of universalism is neither European nor Eurocentric, but universal in scope, since intellectuals in all cultures make truth-claims. Accordingly, it pleads for conceptualising the universal not as a given that can be embraced or rejected, but as a goal and an infinite horizon that all cultures of the world should work on together.

Relektüren des klassisch-islamischen Erbes für eine Gerechtigkeitsgrammatik der Gegenwart

Kaouther Karoui December 9, 2020

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This essay examines Fatima Mernissi’s and Mohammed Arkoun’s strategies of rereading central texts of the classical Islamic tradition in order to develop a contemporary normative grammar of critique. Mernissi reconsiders marginalized intellectuals and theoretical schools of Islamic history and derives immanent principles of justice. From a feminist perspective, she criticizes the dominantly patriarchal interpretations of Islamic foundational texts. Taking the classical humanism of Miskawayh as a point of departure, Arkoun carves out his conception of justice. Based on both Islamic religious ethics and antique Greek philosophy, he develops a transcultural humanism. Methodologically, Arkoun suggests a deconstructive examination of the classical Islamic texts to free Islamic thought from orthodox strictures. By way of conclusion, the article suggests that Mernissi’s and Arkoun’s progressive interpretation of the classical Islamic heritage may help to overcome the narrow, identitarian understanding of Islamic thought prevalent in both Muslim and Western societies.

Ubuntu/Botho: Ideologie oder Versprechen?

Michael Onyebuchi Eze December 9, 2020

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This article investigates the concept of Ubuntu/Botho as a possible foundation for an African moral theory. It departs from an analysis of the idea of “human personhood” as a basis for moral agency, which is controversially debated within African philosophy. This notion of personhood relies on an understanding of the mutual interdependence of human beings. As a next step, the author critically assesses the discursive function of Ubuntu/Botho in African societies and its misuse by political elites as ideological cover for exclusionary and violent practices. By way of conclusion, the article stresses restoration as a key value associated with African humanism based on Ubuntu/Botho.

Die Notwendigkeit globaler Philosophie

Stefan Gosepath December 9, 2020

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When ‘we’ in the West talk about philosophy, we most often mean ‘Western Philosophy’, i. e. philosophy with ancient roots in Greece from the pre-Socratic period onwards until today, thereby neglecting other cultures and traditions, whose history of philosophical thinking is at least as old and important. This neglect of other philosophical traditions is a problem in general, since it is unfair, hegemonic, ignorant, and imprudent. The article argues that there are instrumental as well as intrinsic reasons to diversify and globalize the philosophical canon. Different philosophical traditions should engage more substantially with each other to solve philosophical problems. The idea of global philosophy encourages us to look beyond our respective cultural traditions to improve on our current approach of solving philosophical problems by our own lights.

Weg aus der Krise?

Peggy H. Breitenstein December 9, 2020

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Moralische Verantwortung in und für Organisationen

Jan-Christoph Heilinger December 9, 2020

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Die subtile Kunst des Ist-mir-nicht-egal (was andere denken)

Tim Kraft December 9, 2020

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Wie viel Freiheit lassen uns die Wissenschaften?

Claus Beisbart December 9, 2020

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Volume 68 (2020)

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Volume 53 (2005)

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Volume 34 (1986)

Volume 33 (1985)

Volume 32 (1984)

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Volume 7 (1959)

Volume 6 (1958)

Volume 5 (1957)

Volume 4 (1956)

Volume 3 (1955)

Volume 2 (1954)

Volume 1 (1953)

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Editorial

Editors-in-Chief:
Christoph Demmerling, Jena
Andrea Esser, Jena
Hans-Peter Krüger, Potsdam
Christoph Menke, Frankfurt/M.

Editors Bookreview:
Georg W. Bertram, Berlin
Robin Celikates, Amsterdam
Stefan Gosepath, Berlin

Editor:
Matthias Warkus, Jena

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Editorial Board:
Seyla Benhabib, New Haven
Monika Betzler, Bern
Raymond Geuss, Cambridge
Jürgen Habermas, Starnberg
Dieter Henrich, München
Axel Honneth, Frankfurt/M.
Gerd Irrlitz, Berlin
Friedrich Kambartel, Frankfurt/M.
Charles Larmore, Providence
Christoph Menke, Frankfurt/M.
Jürgen Mittelstraß, Konstanz
Nelly Motrošilova, Moskau
Herta Nagl-Docekal, Wien
Frederick Neuhouser, New York
Nicholas Rescher, Pittsburgh
Herbert Schnädelbach, Hamburg
Hans Julius Schneider, Berlin
Charles Taylor, Montreal
Dieter Thomä, St. Gallen
Dan Zahavi, Kopenhagen