Monographs

• Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Introduction, Stuttgart: Reclam Universal Bibliothek 2003 (doctoral thesis).
• Truth and Value Judgement. A Theory of Practical Rationality, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011 (postdoctoral thesis).
• Adorno. A Philosophical Introduction, Stuttgart: Reclam Universal Bibliothek 2018 (3rd edition).
• The Rights of Nature: On Sustainable Ownership, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2023 (2nd edition).
• An Introduction to Theories of Property, Hamburg: Junius 2024 (in collaboration with Niklas Angebauer).

Editors

• The Origins and Limits of Meaning, edited jointly with Brigitte Hilmer and Georg Lohmann, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2006.
• What is Critique?, co-edited with Rahel Jaeggi, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2009 (6th edition).
• On Hope, edited jointly with Barbara Schmitz, special issue of the German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1).
• Property, special issue in the German Journal of Philosophy, 62, 2014 (3).
• Transformations of Democracy, edited jointly with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015.
• Rational Freedom: Essays on the Later Work of Jürgen Habermas, edited jointly with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Smail Rapic, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024.
• Contested Property: A Sociological Debate, edited jointly with Niklas Angebauer and Jacob Blumenfeld, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2025.

Essays

(a) Democracy

• Democratic Freedom. On the Pre-Political Foundations of Democracy, in: Gunnar Hindrichs, Axel Honneth (eds.), Freedom. International Hegel Congress Stuttgart 2011, Spirit and History, Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2013, pp. 791–825.
• Are Heidegger’s objections to democracy valid?, in: Nikolai Münch, Paul Sörensen (eds.), Heidegger and Political Philosophy, Bielefeld: transcript 2013, pp. 153–174.
• Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of ‘Radical Democracy’. On the Relationship between Democracy and Rationality, in: Falk Bornmüller, Thomas Hoffmann, Arnd Pollmann (eds.), Democracy and Human Rights, Freiburg: Alber 2013, pp. 183–206.
• Hegel and Democracy, in: Hartmut Rosa, Klaus Vieweg (eds.), On the Architecture of Practical Reason – Hegel in Transformation, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2014, pp. 135–155.
• Democracy and its Property. From Market Freedom to Economic Democracy, in: Special Issue: Property, edited by Tilo Wesche, German Journal of Philosophy 62, 2014 (3), pp. 443–486.
• Normative Resources of Democracy, in: Transformations of Democracy. Crisis, Protest and Legitimation, co-edited with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015, pp. 213–233.
• Economic Democracy. Political Inclusion through Ownership Participation, in: Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.), Inclusion. Pathways to a Participatory Society, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2015, pp. 138–147.
• Who Owns Democracy? On the Significance of Property in Democratic Theory, in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 221, 3/2018, pp. 21–29.
• The Democratic Distinction between Individualistic and Communal Property Societies, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 28, 2018, pp. 237–261. Co-authored with Hartmut Rosa.
• ‘Democratic Deliberation and Economic Democracy’, in: Philosophy & Social Criticism, 47 (1), 2021, pp. 65–68.

(b) Property

• Freedom through Property. Theories of Freedom as a Justification for Property in John Locke and John Rawls, in: Diego d’Angelo, Sylaine Gourdain, Tobias Keiling, Nikola Mirkovic (eds.), To Be Free, To Act Freely – Freedom between Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Freiburg: Alber 2013, pp. 174–202.
• The Concept of Property in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy, in: Analysis & Critique. Journal of Social Theory 35/1, Special Issue: Property-Owning Democracy, edited by Francis Cheneval and Christoph Laszlo, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 2013, pp. 99–111.
• Self-ownership. The splendour and misery of a self-relationship, in: Gunnar Hindrichs (ed.), Practical Identity, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2015, pp. 35–75.
• The Value of Property. On the Appropriation of Time, in: WestEnd. New Journal of Social Research 01 – 2018, pp. 129–142.
• Kant’s Natural Right to Property, in: 12th International Kant Congress ‘Nature and Freedom’, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2019. pp. 451–460.
• Ownership of Money. An Analysis of the Monetary Economy from the Perspective of Property Theory, in: Gerald Hartung, Tim-Florian Steinbach (eds.), Georg Simmel: The Philosophy of Money, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2020, pp. 145–157.
• Hölderlin on intellectual property, in: Nils Baratella, Peter Neumann, Malte Unverzagt (eds.), The Presence of the Past, Paderborn: Brill 2023, pp. 219–224.
• What is Property?, in: Contested Property: A Sociological Debate, co-edited with Niklas Angebauer and Jacob Blumenfeld, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2025, pp. 9–54.

(c) Ecology

• Who Owns Nature? On the Rights of Nature, in: Estudios de filosofía, 2022-01 (65), pp. 49–68.
• Dialectics of Relations with Nature. Ways out of the ecological crises, in: Historical Judgement. Journal of the German Historical Museum, No. 6, 2024, pp. 44–48.
• The Dialectic of Relations with Nature. On socio-ecological transformation, in: Bettina Hollstein, Jörg Oberthür (eds.), Resonance and Critique. Perspectives on a Sociology of Our Relationship with the World, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 228–237.
• Ecological Utopias, in: Utopia. The Right to Hope, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2025, pp. 145–148.
• A Critique of Ecological Reason, in: German Journal of Philosophy, 73, 2025 (6), pp. 693–711.

(d) Critical Theory

• Reflection, Therapy, Representation. Forms of Critique, in: Rahel Jaeggi, Tilo Wesche (eds.), What is Critique?, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2009, pp. 193–220.
• Politics and Language. Power and Powerlessness in Political Critique, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), The Power and Powerlessness of Language: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Perspectives, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2012, pp. 55–81.
• Dialectics or Ontology. Adorno’s ‘Fundamental Philosophical Controversy’ with Heidegger, in: Hans Friesen, Christian Lotz, Jakob Meier, Markus Wolf (eds.), ‘The Thing and Reification: Philosophy of Technology and Social Philosophy following Heidegger and Critical Theory’, Munich: Fink 2012, pp. 211–228.
• Kierkegaard’s Concept of Critique, in: Hermann Deuser, Markus Kleinert (eds.), Kierkegaard. Either/Or, Interpreting the Classics, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2017, pp. 57–73.
• Political Visions and Fictions. On Political Self-Deception, in: Gertrud Koch, Thomas Hilgers (eds.), Perspective and Vision, Munich: Fink 2017, pp. 233–244.
• Indifference. A Social Philosophy of Self-Deception, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), Self-Deception: A Challenge for Philosophy and Psychology, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, pp. 179–222.
• Critique of Knowledge and Society in Adorno, in: Marc Nicolas Sommer and Mario Schärli (eds.), The Nuisance of Philosophy. Metaphysics in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, Tübingen: Mehr Siebeck 2019, pp. 65–76.
• The Revenge of Capital: Why Democracies Turn into Autocracies, in: Daniel Loick, Christian Schmidt, Isette Schuhmacher (eds.), Emancipatory Materialism, Berlin 2026, pp. 203–224.

(e) Theories of Rationality and Truth

• Dialogue and Truth. On Davidson’s Dialogical Turn in the Theory of Truth, in: Brigitte Hilmer, Georg Lohmann, Tilo Wesche (eds.), The Origins and Limits of Meaning, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2006, pp. 222–235.
• The Beginning as Principle and Origin in Kant, in: Emil Angehrn (ed.), Beginning and Origin. The Question of the First in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2007, pp. 303–311.
• Reasons and Purposes. The Scope and Limits of a Technicist Concept of Action, in: Christoph Hubig, Andreas Luckner, Nadia Mazouz (eds.): Action and Technology – With and Without Heidegger, *Culture and Technology*, Vol. 7, Lit Verlag: Berlin 2007, pp. 83–92.
• Hegel and Contemporary Theories of Truth. A Dispute Among Neighbours, in: German Journal of Philosophy 57 (2009) 3, pp. 355–375.
• Nature and Mind. On the Concept of Nature in the Philosophy of Mind, in: Myriam Gerhard and Christine Zunke (eds.), ‘We Must Make Science Human Again.’ Aspects and Perspectives of the Philosophy of Nature, Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann 2010, pp. 79–98.
• Ethical Naturalism. First and Second Nature in Foot and McDowell, in: Thomas Hoffmann, Michael Reuter (eds.), *Naturally Good: Essays on the Philosophy of Philippa Foot*, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster / New Brunswick: ontos 2010, pp. 263–291.
• Practical Reason and Weakness of Will. On Aristotelian Anthropology, in: International Yearbook of Hermeneutics 2010, Tübingen, pp. 259–282.
• Truth and Knowledge in Conflict. On Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy, in: Lore Hühn, Philipp Schwab (eds.), Philosophy of the Tragic, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2011, pp. 297–315.
• Knowledge and Faith. An Essay on the Concept of Truth in the Philosophy of Religion, in: Niels-Jørgen Cappelørn, Lore Hühn, Søren Fauth, Philipp Schwab (eds.), Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard’s Monographs, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2011, pp. 291–328.
• World, Language, Contingency: Heidegger’s Concept of Truth, in: David Espinet, Friederike Rese, Michael Steinmann (eds.), Concreteness and Objectivity, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011, pp. 160–189.
• Truth and Evidence, in: International Yearbook of Hermeneutics 2011, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011, pp. 55–84.

(f) Normativity

• Morality in a Cosmopolitan Perspective. Kant on Moral Progress, in: Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca, Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant and Philosophy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective. Proceedings of the 11th International Kant Congress 2010, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 881–890.
• Politics and Knowledge. On the cognitive function of the political in Hegel, in: Andrzej Przylebski, Mirko Wischke (eds.), Law without Justice? Hegel and the Foundations of the Rule of Law, Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann 2010, pp. 17–39.
• Equality, Merit, Need. Principles of Justice, in: Viktor Vanberg (ed.), Market Economy and Social Justice. Questions of the Economic Order in a Democratic Society, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012, pp. 43–50.
• Human Dignity as the Basis for the Respect of Human Rights, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), Working with the Negative: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Perspectives, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2014, pp. 253–275.
• Morality and Freedom. Kant’s Justification of Moral Duties, in: Hans Feger, Manuela Hackel (eds.), Existential Philosophy and Ethics, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 35–51.
• The Dignity of Free and Equal Beings. On the Justification of the Human Rights Concept of Dignity, in: Daniela Demko, Kurt Seelmann (eds.), Dignity and Autonomy, Legal and Social Philosophy Archive, Supplement, Vol. 141, 2014, pp. 41–64.
• Moral Empathy. On the Meaning and Limits of the Ethics of Compassion, in: Miriam Fischer, Benno Wirz (eds.), Understanding Life, Weilerswist: Velbrück 2015, pp. 141–158.
• Normative Learning Processes in an Evolutionary Perspective, in: Philosophy & Social Criticism 41 (10), SAGE 2015, pp. 1047–1051.
• The Linguistic Capacity of Performative Speech, in: Dialogue. Canadian Philosophical Review, 56/4, 2017, pp. 643–653.
• ‘The foundation of law is, in fact, the spiritual.’ Hegel’s fundamental operation in the ‘Outlines of the Philosophy of Right’, in: studia philosophica, Vol. 78, 2019, pp. 137–145.
• Rational Freedom. An Unfinished Project, in: Stefan Müller-Doohm, Smail Rapic, Tilo Wesche (eds.), Rational Freedom. Essays on the Late Work of Jürgen Habermas, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024, pp. 161–193.

(g) Ethics

• Cheerfulness on a Dark Ground. A Successful Life According to Kierkegaard, in: International Yearbook of Hermeneutics 2003, Tübingen 2003, pp. 273–289.
• Suffering as a Subject of Philosophy? Corrections to Schopenhauer, in: Lore Hühn (ed.): Arthur Schopenhauer’s Ethics in the Context of German Idealism (Fichte/Schelling), Würzburg: Ergon 2006, pp. 133–145.
• Morality and Happiness. Hope in Kant and Adorno, German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1), pp. 49–71.
• Forms of the Good Life. An Outline of Contemporary Happiness Research, in: Studia philosophica, Special Issue: Philosophy and Way of Life. Existentialist Motifs in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Jeanette Friedrich and Toni Hügli, Basel: Schwalbe 2014, pp. 71–88.
• Happiness in Benjamin’s Essay on ‘Electra’, in: Helmuth Hühn, Jan Urbich (eds.), Benjamin’s *Elective Affinities*. Towards a Critique of a Programmatic Interpretation, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015, pp. 193–216.
• Happiness and Time. A Formal Conception of the Good Life, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), The Unresolved Past. Power and Limits of Memory, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2015, pp. 233–257.
• Good Ways of Life and Forms of the Good Life. On Two Normative Foundations of the Economic Sphere, in: Journal of Business and Corporate Ethics, 3/2018, pp. 435–441.
• The Good Life and Death. Ethical Reflections on the End of Life, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), Expectation. The Future between Fear and Hope, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2018, pp. 162–185.

(h) Philosophical Aesthetics

• Adorno’s Narrow Conception of Art and Modernity – On the Concept of the New in ‘Aesthetic Theory’, in: Maria Moog-Grünewald (ed.), The New – A Figure of Thought in Modernity: Neues Forum für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. II, Heidelberg 2002, pp. 7–32.
• ‘Works of art are alive insofar as they speak.’ Aesthetics as a philosophy of language, in: Adorno in Controversy. On the Presence of His Thought, edited by Wolfram Ette, Günter Figal, Richard Klein and Günter Peters, Freiburg/Munich 2004, pp. 121–151. (English translation of 3: “As speaking entities do artworks live.” Aesthetics as a Philosophy of Language, in: Mário Vieira de Carvalho (ed.), Expression, Truth and Authenticity: On Adorno’s Theory of Music and Musical Performance, Lisbon 2009, pp. 159–187.)
• ‘When a bear howls, he really is telling a story.’ On narrativity in Dylan and Cash, in: Axel Honneth, Peter Kemper, Richard Klein (eds.), Bob Dylan: A Conference, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2007, pp. 160–181.
• Art as Self-Defence. On Society and Aesthetics in Adorno, in: Martin Endres, Axel Pichler, Claus Zittel (eds.), Eros and Knowledge. 50 Years of ‘Aesthetic Theory’, Berlin/Munich/Boston 2019, pp. 173–184.
• From Music to Narrative. On Adorno and Kempowski, in: Tom Kindt, Marcel Lepper, Kai Sina (eds.), Walter Kempowski in the Context of Literary and Intellectual History, Göttingen: Wallstein 2022, pp. 99–110.
• Narrators Do Not Lie. On Life and Death in Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), Truth and Untruth in Dialogue: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Perspectives, Weilerswist: Velbrück 2025, pp. 108–131.

Encyclopaedia and handbook articles

• Analogy, in: Encyclopaedia of Biblical Hermeneutics [=LB], ed. by Oda Wischmeyer et al., Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2009.
• Dialectic or Ontology: Heidegger, in: Adorno Handbook [=AH], edited by Richard Klein, Johann Kreuzer, Stefan Müller-Doohm, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2011, pp. 364–373.
• Property, in: Johannes J. Frühbauer, Michael Reder, Michael Roseneck, Thomas M. Schmidt (eds.), Rawls Handbook: Life – Work – Impact, Berlin: Metzler 2023, pp. 225–228.
• Essentialism, in: Encyclopaedia of Existentialism and Existential Philosophy [=LEE], edited by Anton Hügli and Urs Thurnherr, Darmstadt: WBG 2007, pp. 76–77.
• Wholeness, LEE, pp. 99–101.
• Gehlen, Arnold, in: Cambridge Habermas Lexicon [=CHL], eds. Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
• Community, LEE, pp. 106–109.
• Happiness, LEE, pp. 122–125.
• Happiness in Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard. On the Proper Approach to Negativity, in: Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, Dieter Thomä, Christoph Henning, Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr (eds.), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2011, pp. 205–210.
• Henrich, Dieter, in: CHL.
• Criticism, LB.
• Orality, LB.
• Negative Dialectics: A Critique of Hegel, AH, pp. 317–325.
• Principle, in: Religion in History and the Present (4th edition) [=RGG4], ed. by Hans Dieter Betz et al., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1998ff., vol. 6, cols. 1667–1668.
• Scripture, LB.
• Melancholy, RGG4, vol. 7, cols. 1076–1077.
• Self (philosophical), RGG4, Volume 7, cols. 1152–1153.
• Leap, LEE, pp. 240–243.
• Theory, LB.
• Theunissen, Michael, in: German Philosophy in the 20th Century: A Handbook of Authors, Thomas Bedorf, Andreas Gelhard (eds.), Darmstadt: WBG 2012, pp. 283–286.
• Theunissen, Michael, in: CHL.
• Origin (philosophical), RGG4, Volume 8, cols. 839–840.
• Suspicion, LB.
• Relationship, LEE, pp. 271–274.
• Preconception, LB.
• World Spirit, RGG4, Volume 8, col. 1441.
• World Soul, RGG4, Volume 8, col. 1451.
• Essence, LEE, pp. 292–295.

Reviews, Introductions and Miscellany

• ‘Ah, how I used to philosophise with Max about dialectics on the Riviera …’. Adorno’s early correspondence with Horkheimer, in: Music & Aesthetics 28, ed. by Ludwig Holtmeier, Richard Klein and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2003, pp. 106–110.
• Sylvia Zirden: Theory of the New – Constructing an Unwritten Theory by Adorno, in: Journal of Aesthetics and General Art Studies, ed. by Josef Früchtl and Maria Moog-Grünewald, issue 50/2 (2005), Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 317–322.
• Hans-Helmuth Gander: Self-Conception and the Lifeworld. Outlines of a Phenomenological Hermeneutics Based on Husserl and Heidegger. In: Husserl Studies 21 (2005), Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, pp. 149–155.
• (with Brigitte Hilmer) The Origin and Limits of Meaning – Introduction, in: Brigitte Hilmer, Georg Lohmann, Tilo Wesche (eds.), The Origin and Limits of Meaning, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2006, pp. 9–17.
• Bernard Williams’ ‘On Opera’, in: Music & Aesthetics 44, edited by Ludwig Holtmeier, Richard Klein and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2007, pp. 104–107.
• (with Rahel Jaeggi). Introduction: What is Criticism?, in: Rahel Jaeggi, Tilo Wesche (eds.), What is Criticism?, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2009, pp. 7–20.
• (with Barbara Schmitz) Special feature: On Hope, in: German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1), pp. 28–30.
• Introduction to the special issue: Property, German Journal of Philosophy 62, 2014 (3), pp. 409–414.
• (with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide) Introduction, in: Transformations of Democracy, co-edited with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015, pp. 1–13.
• Obituary. Dialectical Negativism – Michael Theunissen, 1932–2015, in: radical philosophy, No. 192, July/August 2015, pp. 66–68.
• “Philosophy is completely meaningless outside of criticism”, in: Wolfgang Ullrich, Lambert Wiesing (eds.), Making Grand Statements: On Bazon Brock, Munich: Fink 2016, pp. 164–168.
• An Anthropology of Forgetting from a Pragmatic Perspective. Review of Christine Abt, ‘I Forget’: On the Possibilities and Limits of Thought from a Philosophical Perspective, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2017; 65(3), pp. 599–607.
• The Myth of the Enlightenment. On the Simultaneity of Progress and Barbarism, in: der blaue reiter. Journal of Philosophy 43, 2019, pp. 38–41.
• Humanist Prosperity without Wealth. Review of: Christian Neuhäuser, Wealth as a Moral Problem, German Journal of Philosophy, 67/2, 2019, pp. 317–323.
• Have you considered that, Mr Piketty? – Commentary, in: Philosophy Magazine, No. 03/2020, p. 65.
• Why Be Moral? A Post-Metaphysical Theory of Moral Motivation in Jürgen Habermas’s ‘Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie’, in: German Journal of Philosophy, April 2021, Vol. 69 (2), pp. 276–280 (co-authored with Regina Kreide).
• Why Be Moral? A Postmetaphysical Theory of Moral Motivation, in: The Review of Politics, 2022, Vol. 84 (2), pp. 266–271.
• Foreword, in: Reasonable Freedom. Essays on the Later Work of Jürgen Habermas, edited jointly with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Smail Rapic, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024, pp. 9–12 (with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Smail Rapic).

Media (selection)

• ‘The Unresolved Modernity’, in: *Badische Zeitung*, 9 August 2003, p. 35.
• ‘Think directly, communicate indirectly. Exercises in subjectivity behind the scenes. Sören Kierkegaard’s journals mark the start of his new German translation’, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 19 October 2005, p. L 30.
• On the 200th anniversary of his birth: What does Søren Kierkegaard have to say to us today?, DIE ZEIT, 2 May 2013, p. 52.
• What is happiness? Why our own happiness depends on the happiness of others, DIE ZEIT, No. 25, 13 June 2013, Philosophy Special ‘What is the good life?’, p. 14. (reprinted in: What is happiness? Why our own happiness depends on the happiness of others, in: DIE ZEIT (ed.), How Should I Live? Contemporary Philosophers Provide Answers, Munich: Pattloch 2014, pp. 59–64.)
• ‘Waste’, interview, Radio Corax, 3 October 2013 at 19:15–19:30.
• What is Happiness?, interview, MDR Figaro, 16 November 2013 at 9.05–9.10.
• Culture Night: The Philosophy of Happiness, round-table discussion, MDR, 21 November 2013, 10.00–11.00 pm.
• Property. What is it, and what is it for?, in: DIE ZEIT no. 16, 11 April 2019, pp. 46–47.
• ‘The Rights of Nature’. 3sat Kulturzeit (27 June 2023) and ZDFaspekte.
• “Nature does not belong to humankind.” Philosopher Tilo Wesche argues that nature should be granted property rights over itself. The implication: if companies make use of it, they must pay. Interview in the taz on 11 December 2023, taz.de/Philosoph-ueber-Eigentumsrechte/!5966278
• The fight against the climate crisis. Why nature is entitled to property rights. Podcast in the series “Sein und Streit”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 3 September 2023. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/warum-der-natur-eigentumsrechte-zustehen-dlf-kultur-0d19b50e-100.html
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• Rights of Nature: If only forests could speak out, interview in: GEO Magazine, 13 June 2024.
• Property Belonging to Others. A judicial scandal or a groundbreaking precedent for the legislature? Two judgements were handed down in Erfurt granting nature its own rights. We should learn to live with this, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 October 2024, No. 250, p. 14.
• A thirst for revenge. Trump’s MAGA movement is led by the super-rich, yet its supporters are primarily those who have fallen on hard times and been left behind. How does that add up?, DIE ZEIT, 3 March 2025, www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/donald-trump-unterstuetzer-wirtschaftpolitik-liberalismus
• Climate Change and the Race for Raw Materials – Who Owns Nature? Interview on Deutschlandfunk, 18 January 2026.
• Conversation / Rethinking Nature 4/6): Tilo Wesche “We need a legal community comprising both humankind and nature.” SWR, 6 August 2026, https://www.swr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/tilo-wesche-philosoph-gespraech-2026-08-08-100.html
• Jung & Naiv: Episode 829, philosopher Tilo Wesche on the rights of nature, property and colonialism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPvdyFyw4U