Christoph Menke

Christoph Menke is Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He is internationally known for his work on aesthetics, legal and political philosophy. He is the former director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Potsdam and was previously Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His books include The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Experience According to Adorno and Derrida (1988 in German, 1998 in English),Tragic Play:Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett(2005 in German, 2009 in English) and Force: A Basic Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology(2008 in German, 2013 in English)...Interlocutors:.. Andreas Fischer-Lescano (University of Bremen).Ben Morgan (University of Oxford).Alexander Duttmann (Goldsmiths University of London).Eric Santner (University of Chicago).Peter Fenves (Northwestern).Daniel Loick (University of Frankfurt).Jennifer Culbert (Johns Hopkins)