New Professor for Practical Philosophy: Christoph Menke
16 April 2009
With the beginning of the summer semester Christoph Menke and his assistants have started the work on a research project on the topic of "Normativity and Freedom" located within the Cluster of Excellence. Christoph Menke holds the professorship for practical philosophy (with special regard to the philosophy of law and political philosophy).
Christoph Menke will be investigating the relationship between normativity and freedom that resides at the core of the modern understanding concerning the formation of normative orders. The focus is thereby on the question, how freedom as a form of social participaton engenders normativity, and why freedom at the same time also implies liberty from social participation and therefore from normativity. Of special interest in this regard is the notion of subjective rights shaping the form of government in modern societies.
Christoph Menke studied philosophy and German literature in Heidelberg and Konstanz. After his PhD in Konstanz (1987) and his “Habilitation” in Berlin (1995) Christoph Menke was associate professor at the New School for Social Research, New York from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2008, he was professor for philosophy with special regard to ethics and aesthetics at the University of Potsdam.
