Welcome to my website. I am an assistant professor ("Assistent") at the philosophical institute of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (My website there).

I am a member of the editorial team at the "Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur".

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Immanente Kritik Elemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktiken (Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2013, 475 S.) Wenn wir Kritik an unserer Gesellschaft üben wollen, auf welche Normen können wir uns dabei stützen? Nur auf moralische Argumente, die wir von außen an sie herantragen? Eine Alternative zu solch “externen” Herangehensweisen bietet die Methode der “immanenten Kritik”, die Normen mobilisiert, die bereits in einer Gesellschaft zu finden sind. Obwohl sich die Tradition der Kritischen Theorie dieser Kritikform verpflichtet fühlt, sind ihre Grundlagen bisher nie geklärt worden. Die Studie erläutert die Möglichkeit immanenter Kritik unter Rückgriff auf aktuelle Theorien kollektiven Handelns und sozialer Praktiken und entwickelt ein Modell der Kritik, das die Potenziale herausstellt, die in alltäglichen Formen wechselseitiger Anerkennung existieren. Bestellen beim Campus-Verlag Bestellen bei amazon.de Inhaltsverzeichnis (PDF)     "Sanktion, zweitpersonale Adressierung und Autorität: Kommentar zu Anwander und Szigeti", in Buddeberg, Eva, Vesper, Achim (eds.) Moral und Sanktion. Eine Kontroverse über die Autorität moralischer Normen, Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2013, pp. 317-330. "Sharing the Background", in Schmitz, Michael, Kobow, Beatrice, Schmid, Hans Bernhard (eds.), The Background of Social Reality, Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 127-146. "Wandel der Anerkennung. Überlegungen aus gerechtigkeitstheoretischer Perspektive" (with Axel Honneth), in Honneth, Axel, Lindemann, Ophelia, Voswinkel, Stephan (eds.), Strukturwandel der Anerkennung, Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2013, pp. 275-300 (abstract). "Verdinglichung und Herrschaft. Technikkritik als Kritik sozialer Praxis", in Friesen, Hans, Lotz, Christian et al. (eds.) Ding und Verdinglichung: Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der Kritischen Theorie, München: Wilhelm Fink, 2012, pp. 299-324. Soziale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Macht, in XXII. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, 11. - 15. September 2011, München. Verdinglichung als Pathologie zweiter Ordnung, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Volume 59, Number 5, November 2011, pp. 731-746. Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition, in Ikäheimo, H., Laitinen, A. (eds.): Recognition and Social Ontology, Leiden: Brill, 2011). Jenseits der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit: Anerkennung und sozialer Fortschritt. (with Axel Honneth), in Forschung Frankfurt, No 2., 2010, pp. 16-20. Practices, Norms and Recognition in Human Affairs, Volume 17, Number 1, June 2007, pp. 10-21. (See also my profiles on PhilPapers, Google Scholar, Academia.edu and Scholastica.) Reviews: Review of Anthony Simon Laden: Reasoning. A Social Picture, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 12.09.2012. Review of Mattias Iser: Empörung und Fortschritt, in Critical Horizons, Volume 10, Number 3, 2009, pp. 440-443. Review of Paul Redding: Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought, in Critical Horizons, Volume 9, Number 1, 2008, pp. 109-112. My research interests include: social philosophy, especially social ontology; Hegel; normativity; Critical Theory; moral philosophy. In 2010, I graduated with a thesis titled: "A Critical Theory of Social Practices. The Social Ontological Foundations of Immanent Critique." as a Ph.D. / Dr. phil. with a binational degree at Goethe University and Macquarie University, Sydney. My Magister Artium dissertation was on "Reification - towards the reconstruction of a notion of social philosophy". Download the introduction, the summary and the references (German). Presentations: "Power, Reasons, and Reason", Workshop "Critical Theory and Social Ontology II: Power", Berlin, Germany, May 2013 (Slides). "Recognition, Ideology, and Critique", Workshop "The Ambivalence of Recognition", Frankfurt a. M., Germany, April 2013 (Slides). "Non-Domination, Institutional Power, and Social Freedom", Association for Political Theory Conference, Columbia, SC, USA, October 2012. (Slides). "The Internal Point of View as a First-Person Plural Point of View", Workshop "Law in the First Person", Tilburg, Netherlands, September 2012. "Beyond Plans and Practices: Law as Collective Intentional Institution of Authority", Conference Collective Intentionality VIII, Manchester, UK, August 2012 (Slides). "Power - an even more radical view", Conference "Philosophy and the Social Sciences", Prague, May 2012 "Criminals, Revolutionaries, and Beautiful Souls. Hegel on the Pathologies of Social Freedom.", Conference "The Spirit of Right", Dublin, March 2012 "Concepts of Power and Concepts of Justice", University College Dublin, March 2012 "Woher hat die immanente Kritik ihre Normen? Sozialontologische Überlegungen zum Potenzial sozialer Praktiken", Tagung "Immanente Kritik", Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt a. M., November 2011 (Slides: HTML, Scribd) "Soziale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Macht", DGPhil-Kongress 2011, München, September 2011 (Slides on Scribd) "Second Nature and Reflection. Towards a Negative Naturalism", Conference Naturalisms in Ethics, Auckland, July 2011 (Slides on Scribd) "Praxis, Technik und expressive Vernunft. Verdinglichung als Pathologie zweiter Ordnung", Tagung "Technik und Verdinglichung", Cottbus, June 2011 (Slides on Scribd) "Verbrecher, Terroristen und Schöne Seelen. Hegel über die Pathologien sozialer Freiheit.", Internationaler Hegelkongress 2011, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2011 (Slides on Scribd) "Ideologiekritik als Kritik sozialer Praktiken. Eine expressivistische Rekonstruktion der Kritik falschen Bewusstseins.", Re-Thinking Marx, Berlin, Germany, May 2011 (Slides on Scribd, Google Docs) "Joint Commitment and Collective Normative Self-Governance", Collective Intentionality VII, Basel, Switzerland, August 2010. (Slides) "Reification as a Second-order Disorder of Social Practices", Colloquium Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2010. "Sharing the Background." Inaugural Meeting of the European Network of Social Ontology, University of Constance, Germany, October 2009. (Slides) "Criminals and Beautiful Souls: Hegel on Rule-Following and Moral Freedom." Kantian and Post-Kantian Idealism Group, University of Sydney, Australia, September 2008. "Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition", Collective Intentionality VI: Social Change, University of California at Berkeley, USA, July 2008. (Slides) "Drei Modelle von Anerkennung als sozialer Freiheit" (Three models of recognition as social freedom), Workshop on Recognition and Freedom, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2008. (German slides) "The social ontological foundations of immanent critique", Colloquium Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2008. (Slides) "The politics of recognition and the limited power of 'identity' as an argument", SCMP HDR & Honours Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. October 2007. (Slides) Reply to Anthony J. Langlois' "Religious Reasons in Political Debate: Jeffrey Stout and the Tradition of Democracy", Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia. September 2007. "Gibt es legitime Ansprüche auf die Anerkennung partikularer Identitäten?" (Are there legitimate demands for the recognition of particular identities?), Workshop on Recognition, Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, Germany. July 2007. "A libertarian reading of the struggle for recognition", 10th International Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Essex, England. April 2007. (Slides) Courses taught (Kursmaterialien / website with copyright-free readings) Summer 2013 Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Neopragmatism and social theory (with Axel Honneth) Fall 2012 Heidegger and post-analytic philosophy (with Kristina Lepold) The Young Marx Summer 2012 Philosophy of Law The Young Hegel (with Daniel Loick) Fall 2011 Power - Domination - Authority The Moral Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon (with Andreas Maier) Summer 2011 John Rawls: A Theory of Justice Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts (Foundations of Natural Law) Fall 2010 Analytical Marxism Dialectics of the Enlightenment (with Julia Christ and Daniel Loick) Summer 2010 Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Schelling: Das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit (The Essence of Human Freedom; with Axel Honneth) Fall 2009 Introduction to Metaethics Charles Taylor's Social Philosophy Fall 2008 Normativity (with Rahel Jaeggi) Summer 2007 Individualism and Collectivism as Problems for Social Philosophy (with Rahel Jaeggi) University E-Mail show address (PGP key) Private E-Mail show address (PGP key) XMPP Instant Messaging (Google Talk, Jabber, LiveJournal,etc.) titusstahl@jabber.fsfe.org Social Networking Diaspora*: titus_stahl2 @ diasp.org Status.net: titusstahl @ identi.ca Tent.io: titusstahl.tent.is If you must, you can also follow me on Twitter, although I recommend free alternatives like Diaspora*. 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