Monographs

• Kierkegaard. A Philosophical IntroductionStuttgart: Reclam Universal Bibliothek 2003 (dissertation).
• Truth and value judgement. A theory of practical rationalityTübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011 (habilitation thesis).
• Adorno. A philosophical introductionStuttgart: Reclam Universal Library 2018.
• The rights of nature. On sustainable propertyBerlin: Suhrkamp 2023.
• Theories of Property for IntroductionHamburg: Junius 2024 (together with Niklas Angebauer).

Editorship

• The Beginning and Limits of Meaning, ed. together with Brigitte Hilmer and Georg Lohmann, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2006.
• What is critique?, ed. together with Rahel Jaeggi, Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2009 (6th edition).
• Über das Hoffen, ed. together with Barbara Schmitz, thematic focus in the German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1).
• Property, thematic focus in the German Journal of Philosophy, 62, 2014 (3).
• Transformations of Democracyed. together with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015.
• Reasonable Freedom. Contributions to the late work of Jürgen Habermased. together with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Smail Rapic, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024.
• Contested property. A debate on social theory, ed. together with Niklas Angebauer and Jacob Blumenfeld, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2025.

Essays

(a) Democracy

• Democratic Freedom. On the pre-political basis of democracy, in: Gunnar Hindrichs, Axel Honneth (eds.), Freedom. International Hegel Congress Stuttgart 2011Spirit and History Volume 1, Frankfurt/M: Klostermann 2013, pp. 791-825.
• Do Heidegger's objections to democracy apply?, in: Nikolai Münch, Paul Sörensen (eds.), Heidegger and Political PhilosophyBielefeld: transcript 2013, pp. 153-174.
• Jürgen Habermas' theory of 'radical democracy'. On the connection between democracy and rationality, in: Falk Bornmüller, Thomas Hoffmann, Arnd Pollmann (eds.), Democracy and Human RightsFreiburg: Alber 2013, pp. 183-206.
• Hegel and Democracy, in: Hartmut Rosa, Klaus Vieweg (eds.), On the Architectonics of Practical Reason - Hegel in Transformation, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2014, pp. 135-155.
• Democracy and its property. From Market Freedom to Economic Democracy, in: Thematic Focus: Property, ed. by Tilo Wesche, German Journal of Philosophy 62, 2014 (3), S. 443-486.
• Normative Resources of Democracy, in: Transformations of Democracy. Crisis, Protest and Legimitationed. together 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. Paths to the participatory societyFrankfurt/M: Campus 2015, pp. 138-147.
• Who owns democracy? On the democratic-theoretical significance of property, in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 221, 3/2018, S. 21-29.
• The democratic difference between propertied individualist and communitarian property societies, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 28, 2018, pp. 237-261. Together with Hartmut Rosa.
• Democratic Deliberation and Economic Democracy, in: Philosophy & Social Criticism, 47 (1), 2021, S. 65-68.

(b) Property

• Freedom through property. Freedom-theoretical justifications of property in John Locke and John Rawls, in: Diego d'Angelo, Sylaine Gourdain, Tobias Keiling, Nikola Mirkovic (eds.), Frei sein, frei handeln - Freiheit zwischen theoretischer und praktischer PhilosophieFreiburg: Alber 2013, pp. 174-202.
• The Concept of Property in Rawls' Property-Owning Democracy, in: Analyse & Kritik. Journal for Social Theory 35/1, focus: Property-Owning Democracy, ed. by Francis Cheneval/Christoph Laszlo, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 2013, pp. 99-111.
• Self-ownership. The splendour and misery of a self-relationship, in: Gunnar Hindrichs (ed.), Practical IdentityFrankfurt/M: Klostermann 2015, pp. 35-75.
• The value of property. On the Propriation of Time, in: WestEnd. New Journal for Social Research 01 - 2018, S. 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.
• Property in money. The property-theoretical analysis of the monetary economy, in: Gerald Hartung, Tim-Florian Steinbach (eds.), Georg Simmel: Philosophy of MoneyBerlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2020, pp. 145-157.
• Hölderlin on intellectual property, in: Nils Baratella, Peter Neumann, Malte Unverzagt (eds.), The Presence of the PastPaderborn: Brill 2023, pp. 219-224.
• What is property?, in: Contested Property. A debate on social theoryed. together with Niklas Angebauer and Jacob Blumenfeld, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2025, pp. 9-54.

(c) Ecology

• Who Owns Nature? About the Rights of Nature, in: Estudios de filosofía, 2022-01 (65), S. 49-68.
• Dialectics of natural relations. Ways out of the ecological crises, in: Historische Urteilskraft. Magazine of the German Historical MuseumNo. 6, 2024, pp. 44-48.
• Dialectics of natural relations. On the socio-ecological transformation, in: Bettina Hollstein, Jörg Oberthür (eds.), Resonance and Critique. Perspectives on a Sociology of World RelationsBerlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 226-237.
• Ecological Utopias, in: Utopia. Right to hope, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2025.

(d) Critical theory

• Reflection, therapy, representation. Forms of Critique, in: Rahel Jaeggi, Tilo Wesche (eds.), What is Critique?, Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2009, pp. 193-220.
• Politics and Language. Power and powerlessness of political critique, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), The Power and Powerlessness of Language. Philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectivesWeilerswist: Velbrück Science 2012, pp. 55-81.
• Dialectics or ontology. Adorno's "philosophical controversy of principles" with Heidegger, in: Hans Friesen, Christian Lotz, Jakob Meier, Markus Wolf (eds.), Thing and reification. Philosophy of Technology and Social Philosophy after Heidegger and Critical TheoryMunich: Fink 2012, pp. 211-228.
• Kierkegaard's concept of critique, in: Hermann Deuser, Markus Kleinert (eds.), Kierkegaard. Either-Or, Klassiker Auslegen, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2017, pp. 57-73.
• Political visions and fictions. On political self-deception, in: Gertrud Koch, Thomas Hilgers (eds.), Perspective and VisionMunich: 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 Science 2017, pp. 179-222.
• Erkenntnis- und Gesellschaftskritik bei Adorno, in: Marc Nicolas Sommer/Mario Schärli (eds.), The Annoyance of Philosophy. Metaphysics in Adorno's Negative DialecticTübingen: Mehr Siebeck 2019, pp. 65-76.

(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 Beginning and Limits of MeaningWeilerswist: 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 StudiesBerlin/New York: de Gruyter 2007, pp. 303-311.
• Reasons and purposes. Scope and Limits of a Technicist Concept of Action, in: Christoph Hubig, Andreas Luckner, Nadia Mazouz (eds.): Action and Technology - with and without HeideggerCulture and Technology, Volume 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, S. 355-375.
• Nature and Spirit. On the concept of nature in the philosophy of mind, in: Myriam Gerhard/ Christine Zunke (eds.), "We must humanise science again." Aspects and Perspectives of Natural PhilosophyWürzburg: 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 FootFrankfurt / 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 TragicBerlin/New York: de Gruyter 2011, pp. 297-315.
• Knowledge and belief. An Attempt on the Concept of Truth in the Philosophy of Religion, in: Niels-Jørgen Cappelørn, Lore Hühn, Søren Fauth, Philipp Schwab (eds.), Kierkegaard and SchopenhauerKierkegaard'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.), Objectivity and ObjectivityTübingen: 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 with cosmopolitan intent. Kant on moral progress, in: Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca, Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant and Philosophy with a Cosmopolitan Intention. Proceedings of the XI International Kant Congress 2010Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 881-890.
• Politics and cognition. 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 LawWürzburg: Könighausen & Neumann 2010, pp. 17-39.
• Equality, performance, need. Principles of Justice, in: Viktor Vanberg (ed.), Market Economy and Social Justice. Designing the Economic Order in a Democratic SocietyTübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012, pp. 43-50.
• Human dignity as the basis for respect for human rights, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), The work on the negative. Philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives, Weilerswist: Velbrück Science 2014, pp. 253-275.
• Morality and freedom. Kant's Justification of Moral Duties, in: Hans Feger, Manuela Hackel (eds.), Existential Philosophy and EthicsBerlin/New York: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 35-51.
• The Dignity of Free and Equal. On the justification of the idea of dignity in human rights, in: Daniela Demko, Kurt Seelmann, (eds.), Dignity and Autonomy, Archive for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Supplement, Volume 141, 2014, pp. 41-64.
• Moral empathy. On the Meaning and Limits of Compassionate Ethics, in: Miriam Fischer, Benno Wirz (eds.), Understanding Life, Weilerswist: Velbrück 2015, pp. 141-158.
• Normative Learning Processes in 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, S. 643-653.
• "The ground of law is the spiritual in general." Hegel's basic operation in the 'Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts', in: studia philosophica, Vol. 78, 2019, pp. 137-145.
• Reasonable freedom. An unfinished project, in: Stefan Müller-Doohm, Smail Rapic, Tilo Wesche (eds.), Reasonable Freedom. Contributions to the Late Work of Jürgen Habermas, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024, pp. 161-193.

(g) Ethics

• Cheerfulness on a dark ground. Successful living according to Kierkegaard, in: International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 2003, Tübingen 2003, pp. 273-289.
• Suffering as a theme of philosophy? Corrections to Schopenhauer, in: Lore Hühn (ed.): Die Ethik Arthur Schopenhauers im Ausgang des Deutschen Idealismus (Fichte/Schelling)Würzburg: Ergon 2006, pp. 133-145.
• Morality and Happiness. Hope in Kant and Adorno, German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1), S. 49-71.
• Forms of the good life. Sketch of current research on happiness, in: Studia philosophica, thematic focus: Philosophy and lifestyle. Existential philosophical motifs of contemporary philosophising, ed. by Jeanette Friedrich and Toni Hügli, Basel: Schwalbe 2014, pp. 71-88.
• Happiness in Benjamin's Elective Affinities Essay, in: Helmuth Hühn, Jan Urbich (eds.), Benjamin's Elective Affinities. On the Critique of a Programmatic InterpretationBerlin: Suhrkamp 2015, pp. 193-216.
• Happiness and time. A formal conception of the good life, in: Emil Angehrn, Joachim Küchenhoff (eds.), The unfinished past. The power and limits of memory, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2015, pp. 233-257.
• Good ways of life and forms of good living. On two normative foundations of the economic sphere, in: Journal of Business and Economic Ethics, 3/2018, S. 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 Science 2018, pp. 162-185.

(h) Philosophical aesthetics

• Adorno's Narrowing 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 Modernism: Neues Forum für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, vol. II, Heidelberg 2002, pp. 7-32.
• "Works of art are alive when they speak." Aesthetics as a philosophy of language, in: Adorno im Widerstreit. On the presence of his thoughted. by Wolfram Ette, Günter Figal, Richard Klein and Günter Peters, Freiburg/München 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 PerformanceLisboa 2009, pp. 159-187).
• 'When a bear howls, he really tells something'. On narrativity in Dylan and Cash, in: Axel Honneth, Peter Kemper, Richard Klein (eds.), Bob Dylan. A CongressFrankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2007, pp. 160-181.
• From music to narrative. On Adorno and Kempowski, in: Tom Kindt, Marcel Lepper, Kai Sina (eds.), Walter Kempowski in the Context of the History of Literature and IdeasGöttingen: 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.), Truthfulness and untruthfulness in dialogue. Philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives, Weilerswist: Velbrück 2025, pp. 108-131.

Handbook and encyclopaedia articles

• Analogy, in: Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik [=LB], ed. by Oda Wischmeyer et al., Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2009.
• Dialectics or Ontology: Heidegger, in: Adorno-Handbuch [=AH], ed. 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: Dictionary of Existentialism and Existential Philosophy [=LEE], ed. by Anton Hügli and Urs Thurnherr, Darmstadt: WBG 2007, pp. 76-77.
• Wholeness, LEE, pp. 99-101.
• Gehlen, Arnold, in: in: Cambridge Habermas Lexicon [=CHL], eds. Amy Allen/Eduardo Mendieta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ed.
• Community, LEE, pp. 106-109.
• Happiness, LEE, pp. 122-125.
• Happiness in Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard. Vom richtigen Umgang mit Negativität, in: Glück. An interdisciplinary handbookDieter Thomä, Christoph Henning, Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr (eds.), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2011, pp. 205-210.
• Henrich, Dieter, in: CHL.
• Critique, LB.
• Orality, LB.
• Negative Dialectics: 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, sp. 1667-1668.
• Scripture, LB.
• Schwermut, RGG4, vol. 7, pp. 1076-1077.
• Selbst (philosophical), RGG4, vol. 7, pp. 1152-1153.
• Leap, LEE, pp. 240-243.
• Theory, LB.
• Theunissen, Michael, in: German Philosophy in the 20th Century. An Author's Handbook, Thomas Bedorf, Andreas Gelhard (eds.), Darmstadt: WBG 2012, pp. 283-286.
• Theunissen, Michael, in: CHL.
• Ursprung (philosophical), RGG4, vol. 8, pp. 839-840.
• Suspicion, LB.
• Relationship, LEE, pp. 271-274.
• Preconception, LB.
• Weltgeist, RGG4, vol. 8, p. 1441.
• Weltseele, RGG4, vol. 8, p. 1451.
• Essence, LEE, pp. 292-295.

Reviews, introductions and miscellanies

• "Alas, I philosophised 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: Theorie des Neuen - Konstruktion einer ungeschriebenen Theorie Adornos, in: Journal of Aesthetics and General Art Studiesed. by Josef Früchtl and Maria Moog-Grünewald, issue 50/2 (2005), Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 317-322.
• Hans-Helmuth Gander: Self-understanding and lifeworld. Basic features of a phenomenological hermeneutics based on Husserl and Heidegger. In: Husserl Studies 21 (2005), Frankfurt/M: Vittorio Klostermann, pp. 149-155.
• (with Brigitte Hilmer) Beginning and Limits of Meaning - Introduction, in: Brigitte Hilmer, Georg Lohmann, Tilo Wesche (eds.), The Beginning and Limits of MeaningWeilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2006, pp. 9-17.
• Bernard Williams' "On Opera", in: Music & Aesthetics 44, ed. by Ludwig Holtmeier, Richard Klein and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2007, pp. 104-107.
• (together with Rahel Jaeggi). Introduction: What is critique?, in: Rahel Jaeggi, Tilo Wesche (eds.), Was ist Kritik?, Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2009, pp. 7-20.
• (together with Barbara Schmitz) Focus: Über das Hoffen, in: German Journal of Philosophy 60, 2012 (1), S. 28-30.
• Introduction to the focus: Property, German Journal of Philosophy 62, 2014 (3), S. 409-414.
• (with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide) Introduction, in: Transformations of Democracyco-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, Jul/Aug 2015, pp. 66-68.
• "Philosophy is completely meaningless outside of critique", in: Wolfgang Ullrich, Lambert Wiesing (eds.), Making big sentences: On Bazon BrockMunich: Fink 2016, pp. 164-168.
• Anthropology of forgetting in pragmatic terms. Review of Christine Abt, "I forget." On the possibilities and limits of thinking from a philosophical perspective, German Journal of Philosophy 2017; 65(3), pp. 599-607.
• The myth of enlightenment. On the simultaneity of progress and barbarism, in: der blaue reiter. Journal for Philosophy 43, 2019, S. 38-41.
• Humanist prosperity without wealth. Review of: Christian Neuhäuser, Wealth as a moral problem, German Journal for Philosophy, 67/2, 2019, S. 317-323.
• Have you considered this, Mr Piketty? - Comment, in: Philosophie Magazin, no. 03/2020, p. 65.
• Why be moral? A post-metaphysical theory of moral motivation in Jürgen Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie", in: German Journal of Philosophy, 2021-04, Vol. 69 (2), pp. 276-280 (together with Regina Kreide).
• Why be Moral? A Postmetaphysical Theory of Moral Motivation, in: The Review of Politics, 2022, Vol. 84 (2), pp. 266-271.
• Preface, in: Reasonable Freedom. Contributions to the Late Work of Jürgen Habermased. together with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Smail Rapic, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024, pp. 9-12 (together with Stefan Müller-Doohm, Smail Rapic).

Media (selection)

• The unmastered modernity, in: Badische Zeitung, 9 August 2003, p. 35.
• "Think directly, communicate indirectly. Exercises in subjectivity behind the scenes. Sören Kierkegaard's Journals form the prelude to his new German translation", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 19 October 2005, p. L 30.
• On the 200th anniversary of his birth: What does Sören 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 other people, DIE ZEIT, No. 25, 13 June 2013, Special Philosophy "What is the good life?", p. 14 (reprinted in: What is happiness? Why our own happiness depends on the happiness of other people, in: DIE ZEIT (ed.), How should I live? Contemporary philosophers provide answersMunich: Pattloch 2014, pp. 59-64).
• Verschwendung, interview, Radio Corax, 03.10.13 at 19:15-19:30.
• What is happiness, interview, MDR Figaro, 16/11/13 at 9:05-9:10.
• Culture night: The philosophy of happiness, discussion round, MDR, 21.11.13 at 22:00-23:00.
• Property. What is it, and what is it good for? DIE ZEIT no. 16, 11 April 2019, pp. 46-47.
• "The rights of nature". 3sat Culture Time (27 June 2023) and ZDFaspekte.
• "Nature does not belong to man." Philosopher Tilo Wesche calls for nature to be granted ownership rights to itself. The consequence: if companies use it, they have to pay, interview in the taz on 11.12.2023, taz.de/Philosoph-ueber-Eigentumsrechte/!5966278
• Fighting the climate crisis. Why nature is entitled to property rights. Podcast in the series "Sein und Streit", Deutschlangfunk Kultur, 3. September 2023. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/warum-der-natur-eigentumsrechte-zustehen-dlf-kultur-0d19b50e-100.html
• History of property - freedom, equality, wealth. Podcast in the series "The rest is history" Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2023.
• Other people's property. Judicial scandal or groundbreaking for legislators? Two judgements were handed down in Erfurt that grant nature its own rights. We should learn to live with this, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 October 2024, no. 250, p. 14.
• Desire for revenge. Trump's MAGA movement is led by the super-rich, but its supporters mainly include the declassed and marginalised. How does that go together? DIE ZEIT, 3 March 2025, www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/donald-trump-unterstuetzer-wirtschaftpolitik-liberalismus.