Published since February 15, 1953

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung

ISSN: 2192-1482

Edited by: Christoph Demmerling, Andrea Marlen Esser, Petra Gehring, 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:

2022-4: Kant und Rassismus

2022-3: Angstverfassungen. Über die affektiven Untergründe des Rechts

2022-2: Marcel Proust als Philosoph

2022-1: Diskursbeobachtungen – Care, Sorge und Fürsorge

2021-6: Adornos geschichtsphilosophischer Naturbegriff

2021-5: Tun und Lassen. Daoistische Perspektiven

2021-4: Für eine Rehabilitierung des Urteilsbegriffs

Book Series: http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/234813

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Volume 70 Issue 2

April 2022

Publicly Available May 25, 2022

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Qualifizierende Disqualifizierung und ihre Umkehrungen

Macht nach Foucault und die Verteilungen von Unvermögen

Penelope Deutscher

Page range: 195-225

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In this paper, the term “qualifying disqualification” is introduced to express an intersection of several different types of power that (in a Foucauldian terminology) are differentiated as disciplinary, sovereign, and biopolitical formations. The paper concurs with a viewpoint that has emerged in much post-Foucauldian scholarship that these should not be understood as replacing each other in a historically emerging, linear succession. The resulting question is how to interpret instances of their convergence and intersection – for example, are they best understood as mutually consolidating (as seen in some understandings of domination)? The paper points to the friction caused by a simultaneity of heterogeneous formations of power given that they are understood to “subjectivise” differently. In turn, different understandings and conducts of “capacity” and “qualification” correspond to those differences in addition to different techniques of inclusion, exclusion, and exception. “Qualifying disqualification” is proposed as a terminology to express this friction. The fields in which its implications are explored include critical race studies (particularly the work of Saidiya Hartman), “capacity”-based rights arguments, and new interpretations of power in the work of Foucault, particularly as theorised in his Collège de France lectures.

May 25, 2022

Autonomie und menschliche Lebensform

Zu den Grundlagen eines Begriffs psychischer Krankheit

Gustav Melichar

Page range: 226-252

Abstract

In 2020, M. Summa developed a promising approach to understanding the concept of illness. This approach combines a theory of organisms with Responsive Phenomenology to gain a concept of illness. Following on from this, the present article shows that the normative presuppositions can be further explicated and justified by drawing on the theoretical resources of Aristotelian naturalism as propounded by Michael Thompson. Aristotelian naturalism does provide a theoretical option to grasp the normative foundations of human life. However, this article argues that Aristotelian naturalism requires another criterion besides human nature to make the concept of illness intelligible. Following John McDowell’s critique of Aristotelian naturalism, it will be shown that this criterion consists in the capacity for autonomy. From this a concept of (mental) illness is developed which describes an impairment of the self-regulated and autonomous realisation of the human form of life.

May 25, 2022

Verschwörungstheorien und das Erbe der Aufklärung: Auf den Schultern von Scheinriesen

Thomas J. Spiegel

Page range: 253-273

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Conspiracy theories are currently all the rage in philosophy and broader intellectual culture. One of the most common background assumptions in the discourse on conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists exhibit certain epistemic vices in the sense of cognitive misconduct. This epistemic vice is mostly seen as a form of irrationality; the corresponding “remedy”, as suggested by some commentators, is a return to the ideals of the Enlightenment. This article argues that this idea is wrongheaded. Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that conspiracy theorists are actually motivated by the rational Enlightenment ideal of self-thinking in the first place. In contrast to the standard discourse, the article posits that conspiracism is based on a certain form of social scepticism, according to which conspiracy theorists radically mistrust a certain form of expert testimony, namely “official” statements. This form of social scepticism in turn facilitates a naive appropriation of the Enlightenment ideal of self-thinking. The article closes by drawing connections to the ethical and epistemological debate on trust and offers the pessimistic assessment that there are no easy solutions based on individual epistemic virtues.

Schwerpunkt: Marcel Proust als Philosoph? (Christoph Menke, Andrea Esser)

May 25, 2022

Schwerpunkt: Marcel Proust als Philosoph?

Christoph Menke, Andrea Esser

Page range: 274-279

May 25, 2022

Der Schatten der Liebe

Die Rolle der Eifersucht in Prousts À la recherche du temps perdu

Robert Pippin

Page range: 280-306

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There is an unusual link between the two most prominent themes in Proust’s In Search of Time Past : the psychological dimensions of love and the experience of lived temporality. Each experience is shadowed by, and intensified by, even seems to require, absence. The absence of the beloved is the source of jealousy, and that experience is treated as inseparable, and sometimes as indistinguishable, from love itself. And the absence of reliable access to the past, or the vanishing of the past into a realm of fantasy and projection, undermines any confidence in our mutual interpretability. At the extreme, jealousy is depicted as sustaining a love all by itself, something captured in Swann’s famous, puzzling closing statement at the end of the “Swann in Love” section of the first novel: “To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I’ve longed to die, that I have experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type.” The aim of this paper is to understand the dynamic of presence and absence, its role in the link between these two themes, and thereby to understand such a claim as much more than a singular character’s expression of a neurotic obsession.

May 25, 2022

Schreibarten, Lesarten, Denkarten

Philosophieren in und mit Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit

Martin Seel

Page range: 307-327

Abstract

The entire corpus of Proust’s Recherche is permeated by philosophical digressions, reflections, aphorisms, dialogues and monologues. These are presented by a number of different and often divergent voices – that of the narrator who is the fictive author of the novel, that of the young Marcel on his long way to become this writer, those of many other figures, with whom Marcel interacts, that of the real author, who has permanently rewritten the text and finally the authority of the text as a whole. The interplay of these perspectives is an essential part of the drama the novel displays. Their contrast cannot, must not and should not be overcome in favour of an integrated and justified point of view of the kind professional philosophy is aiming at. Following this observation, the essay highlights a number of intertwined strands of philosophical motives in the Recherche in order to explore a basic relationship as well as tension between philosophy and literature. Proust’s novel – like other instances of literature and the arts – is not primarily made for a veridical but primarily for a processual thinking. It invites its readers to get involved and to linger in open ended mind games. Philosophising in and with the Recherche means doing philosophy without heading at a philosophy.

May 25, 2022

Proust – Philosophie als ästhetische Praxis

Katrin Wille

Page range: 328-349

Abstract

The philosophical reading of Proust’s Recherche presented here suggests Proust’s aesthetic method as a model for philosophy (as an aesthetic practice). The term “aesthetic” refers to the constitutive role of sensation, perception, and sensuality for the practice of philosophising. In Proust’s peculiar descriptions a specific form of “sentient thinking” (empfindendes Denken) takes shape. This thinking is characterised by the entanglement of the particular as detailed description and the general as theoretical reflection. With reference to Proust, the philosophical practice of describing is developed into a central element of philosophy as aesthetic practice.

Buchkritik

May 25, 2022

Bayesianische Erkenntnistheorie für Normalos

Eva Schmidt

Page range: 350-356

May 25, 2022

Was bedeutet Zustimmung ohne Zwang?

Esther Neuhann

Page range: 357-366

May 25, 2022

Personalitätskonzepte nach Scheler, Plessner und Hartmann

Nicholas Coomann

Page range: 367-371

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Volume 1 (1953)

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Editorial

Editors-in-Chief:
Christoph Demmerling, Jena
Andrea Esser, Jena
Petra Gehring, Darmstadt
Christoph Menke, Frankfurt/M.

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

Editor:
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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

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Online ISSN: 2192-1482
Print ISSN: 0012-1045
Type: Journal
Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
First published: February 15, 1953
Publication Frequency: 6 Issues per Year
Audience: Academics and Students of Philosophy, Libraries, Institutes
Keywords: Philosophy in Germany; Philosophy/Current Debates