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    Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice.Matthias Fritsch - 2018 - Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Press.
    The environmental crisis, one of the great challenges of our time, tends to disenfranchise those who come after us. Arguing that as temporary inhabitants of the earth, we cannot be indifferent to future generations, this book draws on the resources of phenomenology and poststructuralism to help us conceive of moral relations in connection with human temporality. Demonstrating that moral and political normativity emerge with generational time, the time of birth and death, this book proposes two related models of intergenerational and (...)
  2. The Phenomenology of Religious Life.Martin Heidegger, Matthias Fritsch & Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei - 2004 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (1):73-76.
     
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    The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida.Matthias Fritsch - 2005 - State University of New York Press.
    Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.
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  4. Antagonism and democratic citizenship (Schmitt, Mouffe, Derrida).Matthias Fritsch - 2008 - Research in Phenomenology 38 (2):174-197.
    In the context of the recent proliferation of nationalisms and enemy figures, this paper agrees with the desirability of retaining some of the explanatory and motivational potential of an agonistic account of politics, but gives reasons not to accept too much of Carl Schmitt's account of citizenship. The claim as to the necessarily antagonistic exclusion of concrete others can be supported neither on its own terms nor on Derridian grounds, as Chantal Mouffe, in particular, attempts to do. I then indicate (...)
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  5. The Promise of Memory. History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida.Matthias Fritsch - 2006 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3):667-667.
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    Derrida's Democracy to Come.Matthias Fritsch - 2002 - Constellations 9 (4):574-597.
  7. Deconstructive aporias: quasi-transcendental and normative.Matthias Fritsch - 2011 - Continental Philosophy Review 44 (4):439-468.
    This paper argues that Derrida’s aporetic conclusions regarding moral and political concepts, from hospitality to democracy, can only be understood and accepted if the notion of différance and similar infrastructures are taken into account. This is because it is the infrastructures that expose and commit moral and political practices to a double and conflictual (thus aporetic) future: the conditional future that projects horizonal limits and conditions upon the relation to others, and the unconditional future without horizons of anticipation. The argument (...)
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    On the Sources of Critique in Heidegger and Derrida.Matthias Fritsch - 2021 - Puncta. Journal of Critical Phenomenology 4 (2):63-88.
    Seeking to contribute to the recent emergence of critical phenomenology by clarifying the relation between ontology and ethics, this article offers a new account of the sources of normativity in the context of Heidegger’s critique of technological enframing (Gestell) and Derrida’s political philosophy. I distinguish three levels of normativity in Heidegger and show how moving between the levels permits the critical deployment of the affirmation (Zusage) in response to being’s address. On this view, not only are humans constitutively claimed by (...)
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    Indigenous Accounts of Spiraling Time.Matthias Fritsch - 2024 - Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 7 (1):60-86.
    Time has often been understood as either linear or cyclical, sometimes in Eurocentric ways that enclose Indigenous peoples in natural cycles with little or no historical development. This article explores an alternative to the line and the circle. In the context of environmental destruction, Indigenous scholars have suggested that traditional Indigenous accounts of spiraling time, from the Anishinaabe and Māori to the Aztecs and Muskoke, better connect nature with human history as well as more appropriately link human generations, including ancestors (...)
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    Derrida on the death penalty.Matthias Fritsch - 2012 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 50 (s1):56-73.
    Responding to Derrida's Death Penalty Seminar of 1999–2000 and its interpretation by Michael Naas, in this paper I argue that Derrida's deconstruction of the theologico-political concept of the sovereign right over life and death in view of abolishing capital punishment should be understood in terms of the unconditional renunciation of sovereignty that dominates Derrida's later political writings, Rogues (2005) in particular. My reading takes seriously what I call the functional need for a “theological” moment in sovereignty beyond a merely historicist (...)
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    Equality and Singularity in Justification and Application Discourses.Matthias Fritsch - 2010 - European Journal of Political Theory 9 (3):328-346.
    To respond to the charge of context-insensitivity, discourse ethics distinguishes justification discourses, which only require that we consider what is equally good for all, and subsequent application discourses, in which the perspective of concrete others must be adopted. This article argues that, despite its pragmatic attractiveness, the separation of justification and application neglects the co-constitutive role that applicability plays for the meaning of normativity. Norms that do not, in a machine-like fashion, produce their cases, cannot already contain their appropriateness to (...)
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    Climate Change and Democracy.Matthias Fritsch - 2023 - In Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change. Springer Nature. pp. 1001-1026.
    This chapter offers an overview of the serious challenges with which democracies must contend in the face of increasing climate destabilization and menacing environmental breakdown. After a brief introduction, the second section will discuss various accounts of what democracyDemocracy is or should be, from liberal and republican to deliberative and radical, and briefly indicate which difficulties these accounts face. The third section diagnoses democracy’s climate-related weaknesses. As a global and long-term intergenerational problem that is connected to deeply entrenched economic fossil (...)
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    Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy.Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    A collection bringing together a wide-varietyof world-renowned scholars on the import of Derrida's philosophy with respectto the current environmental crisis, our ecological relationships to 'nature'and the earth, our responsibilities with respect to climate change, pollution, and nuclear destruction, and the ethics and politics at stake in responding tothese crises.
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    Why Democrats Should Be Committed to Future Generations.Matthias Fritsch - 2023 - Dialogue 62 (3):459-474.
    In response to the claim that democracies are inherently short-termist, this article argues for a new way to understand them as being committed to future generations. If taking turns among rulers and ruled is a normative idea inherent to the concept of democracy, then such turn-taking commits democrats to a fair turn with future generations.
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    An Eco-Deconstructive Account of the Emergence of Normativity in “Nature”.Matthias Fritsch - 2018 - In Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 279-302.
    This chapter develops an eco-deconstructive account of normativity in relation to well-known but divergent accounts of the emergence of ‘value’ in nature. Value has been argued to emerge with the individual capacity for suffering, with individual self-valuing, or with holistic ecological entities (species, eco-systems, etc.), these three often being seen as at odds with one another. I argue that an entity can become individualized, and thus acquire individual ‘value,’ only in on-going confrontations with other beings and the wider environment. Each (...)
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    La justice doit porter au-delà de la vie présente.Matthias Fritsch - 2017 - Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (1):231-253.
    While it is generally accepted that deconstruction’s principal target is the “metaphysics of presence” and thus a presentist conception of time and being, it is less well known that Derrida connected the deconstruction of presence to an idea of justice that is from the beginning intergenerational, that is, concerned with the dead and the unborn. The first section of this paper re-inscribes the idea of “my life” or “our life” in Derrida’s concept of life as “living-on” to show that justice (...)
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    Reason & emancipation: essays on the philosophy of Kai Nielsen.Michel Seymour & Matthias J. Fritsch (eds.) - 2007 - Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
    Religion -- Metaphilosophy -- Marxism -- Global justice -- Nationalism.
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    Carnophallogocentrism and Eco-Deconstruction.Matthias Fritsch - 2023 - Oxford Literary Review 45 (1):21-42.
    Whether deconstruction is relevant to environmental philosophy, and if so, in what ways and with what transformations, has been subject to considerable debate in recent years. I will begin by discussing some reservations regarding deconstruction’s relevance to environmental thought, and argue that they stem from an older misreading of Derrida’s work in particular as hostile to the natural sciences, and as a cultural textualism of relevance only to the interiority of a traditional canon, but unable to reach the materiality of (...)
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    Virology and Biopolitics.Matthias Fritsch - 2020 - Derrida Today 13 (2):142-148.
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  20. Editors' introduction.Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning - 2022 - In Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning (eds.), Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility. London: Routledge.
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    Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility.Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning (eds.) - 2022 - London: Routledge.
    This book explores the contributions of East Asian traditions, particularly Buddhism and (Euro)Daoism, to environmental philosophy. It critically examines the conceptions of human responsibility toward nature and across time presented within these traditions as well as in European philosophy. The volume rethinks human relationships to the natural world by focusing on three main themes: Daoist and Eurodaoist perspectives on nature, human responsibility toward nature, and Buddhist perspectives on life and nature. By way of discussing East Asian traditions and European thinkers, (...)
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    Intercultural Philosophy and Environmental Justice between Generations: Indigenous, African, Asian, and Western Perspectives.Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning (eds.) - 2024 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    The primary objective of this anthology is to make intergenerational justice an issue for intercultural philosophy, and, conversely, to allow the latter to enrich the former. In times of large-scale environmental destabilization, fair- ness between generations is an urgent issue of justice across time, but it is also a global issue of justice across geographical and nation-state borders. This means that the future generations envisioned by the currently living also cross these borders. Thus, different philosophical cultures and traditions of thought (...)
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    Affirmation and Negativity in Spinoza: A Response to Hasana Sharp.Matthias Fritsch - 2012 - PhaenEx 7 (2):229-238.
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    A New Critical Theory Based on Rational Choice?Matthias Fritsch - 2005 - Dialogue 44 (2):351-362.
    Joseph Heath's Communicative Action and Rational Choice may be read as a critical commentary upon Habermas's critical social theory, but it may also be read as merely using the latter as “scaffolding” for the presentation of Heath's own version of critical theory. In what follows, I will focus on the second option and thus largely ignore the exegetical question to what extent Heath provides a fair reading of Habermas. This does not mean, however, that I will not make comparative judgements. (...)
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  25. Asymmetrical Reciprocity in Intergenerational Justice.Matthias Fritsch - 2020 - In Future Design: Incorporating Preferences of Future Generations for Sustainability. Springer. pp. 17-36.
    The notions of sustainability that are most widely accepted, domestically and internationally, are underwritten not only by duties to contemporaries, but also, and crucially, by responsibilities to non-overlapping generations. The point of this chapter is to argue that intergenerational dependence suggests that such responsibility is grounded in a form of reciprocity that is often called indirect: A gives to B but B gives ‘back’ to C. On this view, a current generation takes responsibility for the well-being of future generations because (...)
     
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    (1 other version)Democracy and "Globalization".Matthias Fritsch - 2006 - The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2:137-144.
    One of the major political problems the world faces at the moment of its so-called globalization concerns the possibilities of maintaining, transforming, and expanding democracy. Globalization, as the extension of neo-liberal markets, the formation of multi-national, non-democratic economic powers, and the ubiquitous use of teletechnologies, threatens the modus vivendi of older democracies in ways that call for the reinvention of an old idea. Inasmuch as teletechnical globalization transforms space and time so as to put into question their very presence, and (...)
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    Discourse Ethics and the Intergenerational Chain of Concern.Matthias Fritsch - 2021 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 2 (1):61-91.
    This paper addresses the question of what discourse ethics might have to contribute to increasingly urgent issues in intergenerational justice. Discourse ethics and deliberative democracy are often accused of neglecting the issue, or, even worse, of an inherently presentist bias that disregards future generations. The few forays into the topic mostly seek to extend to future people the “all affected principle” according to which only those norms are just to which all affected can rationally consent. However, this strategy conflicts with (...)
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    Deconstructing Ought Implies Can.Matthias Fritsch - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 10:109-115.
    The present paper aims to view three ways of thinking time by Emmanuel Levinas. We distinguish existential, historical, and eschatological time demonstrating how they are connected with his central notion of responsibility toward the Other. The following analysis reorders and interprets what Levinas has said in response of Martin Heidegger’s and Hegel’s position. The text does not make any other claims but aims to offer a possible reading and exegesis of Levinas’s philosophy and open a further discussion on these topics.
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  29. Democratic Representation, Environmental Justice, and Future People.Matthias Fritsch - 2023 - In Sally Lamalle & Peter Stoett (eds.), Representations and Rights of the Environment. cambridge UP. pp. 310-333.
    In the context of current environmental crises, which threaten to seriously harm living conditions for future generations, liberal-capitalist democracies have been accused of inherent short-termism, that is, of favouring the currently living at the expense of mid- to long-term sustainability. I will review some of the reasons for this short-termism as well as proposals as to how best to represent future people in today’s democratic decision-making. I will then present some ideas of my own as to how to reconceive the (...)
     
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    Europe’s Constitution for the Unborn.Matthias Fritsch - 2013 - In Agnes Czajka & Bora Isyar (eds.), Europe After Derrida: Crisis and Potentiality. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 80-94.
    This paper draws out what Derrida’s work—in particular as concerns law, democracy, and intergenerational justice in the context of the European heritage—can contribute to constitutionalism and the legal relation to future people, at the national level and the supranational one of the European Union. The first section outlines some of Derrida’s contributions to legal scholarship and European identity, and then, in the following two sections, argue for two main points. First, Derrida can help us understand the much-discussed double bind of (...)
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    (1 other version)Equal consideration of all – an aporetic project?Matthias Fritsch - 2006 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (3):299-323.
    The article considers the relationships among three arguments that purport to establish the intrinsically contradictory or paradoxical nature of the modern project aiming at the equal consideration of all. The claim that the inevitable historical insertion of universal-egalitarian norms leads to always particular and untransparent interpretations of grammatically universal norms may be combined with the claim that the logic of determination of political communities tends to generate exclusions. The combination of these two claims lends specific force to the third argument (...)
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  32. Future Design: Incorporating Preferences of Future Generations for Sustainability.Matthias Fritsch (ed.) - 2020 - Springer.
     
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  33. Heidegger's Dao and the sources of critique.Matthias Fritsch - 2022 - In Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning (eds.), Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility. London: Routledge.
    This chapter looks at Daoism from Heidegger’s perspective, seeing what use he makes of “way” and “dao” in reference to the critical understanding of what he calls technology. As I am not a scholar of Daoism, my goal is not to contribute to our understanding of Daoism; nor am I doing what I think is standard work in “comparative philosophy.” My goal is more focused: I am interested in the conceptual work carried out for Heidegger by the notion of dao, (...)
     
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    Introduction.Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood - 2018 - In Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 1-26.
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  35. Indigene Klimapolitik und Generationengerechtigkeit.Matthias Fritsch - 2023 - Polylog. Zeitschrift Für Interkulturelles Philosophieren 49:57-72.
    This paper proposes a concept of justice for future people that is mindful of Indigenous critiques of the so-called »Anthropocene«. I first review these critiques, which suggest that motivating pro-futural care by dreading an impending climate crisis tends to betray a privileged, often settler-colonial perspective. The beneficiaries of colonialism now have the »luxury« of viewing the environmental crisis as one that lies mostly in the future, while many Indigenous communities have been living with such a crisis for a long time. (...)
     
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  36. Intercultural Philosophy and Environmental Justice between Generations.Matthias Fritsch, Hiroshi Abe & Wenning Mario (eds.) - 2024 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book draws on a spectrum of philosophical cultures to provide new perspectives on environmental ethics and intergenerational justice.
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  37. Leib-Seele-Problem, "Neurophilosophie" und christliche Anthropologie.Matthias Fritsch - 2003 - Theologie Und Philosophie 78 (2).
     
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    Responses to Critics of Taking Turns with the Earth.Matthias Fritsch - 2020 - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 22 (2).
    This paper responds to five critics (Eva Buddeberg, Scott Marratto, Michael Naas, Janna Thompson, and Jason Wirth) and their commentaries on my Taking Turns with the Earth. Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice (Stanford University Press, 2018). In relation to the book’s argument, my response seeks to clarify and elaborate the role of indigenous philosophies; the meaning and value of the concept of earth; the ontology-ethics interface and the emergence of normativity with birth and death; the practical feasibility and motivational force (...)
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    Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy.Matthias Fritsch - 2012 - Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy 8 (1).
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    The enlightenment promise and its remains: Derrida and Benjamin on the classless society.Matthias Fritsch - 2002 - Human Studies 25 (3):289-296.
  41. Taking Turns: Democracy to Come and Intergenerational Justice.Matthias Fritsch - 2011 - Derrida Today 4 (2):148-172.
    In the face of the ever-growing effect the actions of the present may have upon future people, most conspicuously around climate change, democracy has been accused, with good justification, of a presentist bias: of systemically favouring the presently living. By contrast, this paper will argue that the intimate relation, both quasi-ontological and normative, that Derrida's work establishes between temporality and justice insists upon another, more future-regarding aspect of democracy. We can get at this aspect by arguing for two consequences of (...)
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    Vernunft - Offenbarung - Religion: eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung zu Sigismund von Storchenau.Matthias J. Fritsch - 1997 - Peter Lang Publishing.
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    Wo nie zuvor ein Mensch gewesen ist: Science-Fiction-Filme: angewandte Philosophie und Theologie.Matthias Fritsch - 2003
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    The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst. [REVIEW]Rainer Forst, Matthias Fritsch, Jeffrey Flynn & Seyla Benhabib - 2015 - Political Theory 43 (6):777-837.
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    Review of Alex Thomson, Deconstruction and Democracy[REVIEW]Matthias Fritsch - 2005 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (12).