Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Heft 46.2/2021

• Hannes Bajohr: Grundverschieden. Immanente und transzendente Begründungsstrukturen bei Hans Blumenberg
  

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  This article periodizes the work of Hans Blumenberg on the basis of a rupture in its underlying strategies of justification and traces this rupture in Blumenberg’s theory of history, his theory of language, and his aesthetics. In all three areas, there is a shift from an immanent and historical-phenomenological to a transcendent and phenomenological-anthropological strategy of justification, which threatens to make the early and the late Blumenberg incommensurable with each other. The article argues against an overly monolithic reading of Blumenberg and an overemphasis on anthropology as a »life project.« Instead, it advocates a pluralization of interpretative approaches to Blumenberg.
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• Burkhard Liebsch: Dasein, Bleibe und (kollektive) Identität. Zur Kritik identitärer Revisionen des Politischen – mit Blick auf Hannah Arendts Denktagebuch
  

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  This essay deals with identitarian conceptions of the political and their relation to the alterity of others, which cannot be subsumed under a collective identity. To this refers the promise of political forms of life to offer everybody a secure dwelling.
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• Elisa Orrù : Ein Gesellschaftsvertrag für alle. Die Universalität der Menschenrechte nach Olympe de Gouges
  

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  The importance of French revolutionary and philosopher Olympe de Gouges as a pioneer of the women’s rights movement is generally recognised today. In contrast, the significance of her thought for practical philosophy has not yet been fully appreciated. This article aims to bring out the relevance of de Gouges’ writings for practical philosophy both historically and systematically. Drawing on her 1791 text The Rights of Women, this article compares de Gouges’ depiction of gender relationships in the private and public spheres with depictions by such classical social contract theorists as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant. From a historical perspective, de Gouges’ key contribution consists in pointing to and overcoming the theoretical assumptions that hamper the universality of individual rights. From a systematic perspective, de Gouges provides an account of the relationship between abstract universalism and concrete experiences of inequality that is now more topical than ever.
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• Frieder Vogelmann: ›Geltung‹ versus ›Leben‹, ›Normativitat‹ versus ›Kraft‹. Genealogie einer (sozial)philosophischen Verwerfungslinie
  

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  In this article, three theses are proposed. The first is that ›force‹ and ›normativity‹ are not just two fundamental concepts in (social) philosophy today but two paradigms: Each claims to structure how we view the world, to name what is specifically human and to determine the task of philosophy. Their confrontation repeats, according to the second thesis, the dispute between neo-Kantian normativism and life-philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) in the 19th century, best captured by the concepts of ›life‹ and ›validity.‹ Third, the differences within this repetition concern the position, status and nature of subjectivity: Whereas theories of validity in the 19th century are at least partially anti-subjectivist, and thus accused of being abstract, scholastic and hostile to ›life‹ by life-philosophy, today it is the paradigm of ›force‹ which regards the subject as a contingent result of forces. In contrast, contemporary normativism argues for the autonomy of a sovereign subject whose activity is the source of non-indifference in his or her world.
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• Markus Gante: Ein Unglücksfall, den man sich im Prinzip ebenso gut fortdenken könnte. Geschichte und Notwendigkeit bei Adorno und Hegel
  

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  This paper aims to discuss the connection between the concepts of necessity and history in Hegel and Adorno. My aim is to show that Hegel and Adorno provide conceptual resources by which chance and necessity can be understood as two forms of the impossibility to form the historical process consciously. Freedom would only be conceivable where this opposition is transcended.
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