On the genesis of an essay on Kant’s pacifist imperative. Previously unpublished manuscript. February 2026 Download
‘There shall be no war’. What Kant would have written in the address book of today’s heads of state. In: Das Argument 344 Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Vol. 66 (2026), Issue 1, 122–138. Download
Capitalist domination of the natural world – how might we find a way out of this? In: Pedagogy – Capitalism – Ecology. Edited by S. Kunert and M. Steffen. Critical Pedagogy – Interventions and Perspectives. Weinheim 2026. pp. 45–62. Download
On the Concept of Domination in Critical Theory. In: Domination or Organisation. On the Political Form of Human Society. Edited by M. Städtler and M. Heinemann. Springe 2024. pp. 106–127. Download
On the Concept of Capitalist Domination over Living Nature. In: Capital and Nature. A contradiction – irresolvable, turned into profit, destroying the Earth. Edited by H.-G. Bensch, S. Hollewedde and U. Ruschig. Cologne 2023. pp. 30–47. Download
A Systematic Outline of the Relationship between Nature and Freedom. In: Journal of Critical Theory. Vol. 28. Nos. 54–55. Lüneburg 2022. pp. 10–38. Download
Signs of Freedom. Why human emancipation is impossible without the revolutionary struggle against capital’s destructive domination of nature. In: Melodie&Rhythmus. Magazine for Counterculture. Issue 3/2021. pp. 86–91. Download
On the Concept of Justice in Marx. In: On the Shoulders of Karl Marx. Edited by T. Sablowski, J. Dellheim, A. Demirovic, K. Pühl and I. Solty. Münster 2021. pp. 67–81. Download Review: www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/27611.php
On the Meaning of Sound. In: On the Meaning of Hearing. Essays on the Philosophy of Music. Edited by G. Mohr and J. Kreuzer. Würzburg 2012. pp. 109–126. Download
Metaphysics and the Critique of Metaphysics in Kant. In: Metaphysics and the Critique of Metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy (Hegel-Studien Supplement 57). Edited by Myriam Gerhard, Annette Sell and Lu de Vos. Hamburg 2012. pp. 41–59. Download
Kant and Marx. In: From Hermeneutics to Intercultural Philosophy. Festschrift for Heinz Kimmerle on his 80th birthday. Edited by H. R. Yousefi, H.-J. Scheidgen and H. Oosterling. Nordhausen 2010. pp. 211–224. Download
Materialism: Critical Theory after Marx. In: Adorno Handbook. Life – Work – Impact. Edited by R. Klein, J. Kreuzer and S. Müller-Doohm. Stuttgart 2011. pp. 335–345. Download
Marginal Notes on the ‘Movement of the Concept’. In: Hegel’s Relevance Today. On the Reality of Reason in a Post-Metaphysical Age. Edited by J. Kreuzer. Munich 2010. pp. 67–82. Download
From the ‘Idea of the University’ to the actual subsumption of academic work under a system of grant-based funding. In: ‘Truth is What Unites Us’. Karl Jaspers’ Art of Philosophising. Edited by R. Schulz, G. Bonnani, M. Bormuth. Göttingen 2009. Download
On the relevance of “History and Class Consciousness”. In: Space of Freedom. Reflections on Idea and Reality. Edited by W. Meints, M. Daxner, G. Kraiker. Bielefeld 2009. pp. 151–171. Download
Love in the Snow Instead of Conceptual Labour – Where the Confusion of Temporal Determinations in Thomas Mann’s *The Magic Mountain* Leads. In: *The Reality of Time*. Edited by J. Kreuzer and G. Mohr. Munich 2007. pp. 99–118.Download
Simulated Commodity Production – An Academic Dance Around the Golden Calf. In: *Das Argument* 272, Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Vol. 49 (2007), Issue 4, pp. 509–524. Download
Materialist Dialectics or Systems Theory. In: Erwägen Wissen Ethik, Vol. 17/2006, Issue 2, pp. 220–222. Download
The intelligible character in Kant and the ethics of science. In: Kant and the Berlin Enlightenment. Proceedings of the 9th International Kant Congress. Edited by V. Gerhard, R.-P. Horstmann and R. Schumacher. Berlin, New York 2001, Vol. 3, pp. 315–326. Download
Logic and Chemistry in Hegel’s Philosophy. In: HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry. Vol. 7 (2001), pp. 5–22. Download
The ‘Knot-Line of Proportions’ and Materialist Dialectics. In: Hegel’s Logic of Being. Interpretations and Perspectives. Edited by A. Arndt and C. Iber. Berlin 2000, pp. 301–314. Download
‘Absolute Indifference’ – immaterial matter on the path to ‘absolute negation’. In: With and Against Hegel. From the Objectlessness of Absolute Reflection to the Conceptlessness of the Present. Edited by A. Knahl, J. Müller and M. Städtler. Lüneburg 2000, pp. 59–76. Download
“Corruption of Science” in: Traditional Critical Theory. Edited by the Institute of Social Sciences. Würzburg 1995, pp. 21–32. Download
Reviews
Wolfgang Neuser and Sönke Roterberg (eds.): Systems theory, self-organisation and dialectics. On the Methodology of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature. In: Hegel-Studien Volume 48. ed. by Michael Quante and Birgit Sandkaulen. Hamburg 2015. p. 300 - 305. download
Philosophical lectures
On the topicality of a crisis theory after Marx. Oldenburg. April 2010 Download
What must be the beginning of science? Oldenburg. April 2009. download
Kant and Marx: Lecture at the 2nd Bremen-Oldenburg Symposium - "Der kritische Weg ist allein offen" - on the 200th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death. Download
Conversations
Rosa Luxemburg conversation with Sabine Wegmann: Reflecting on Corona 17 June 2020 nds.rosalux.de/publikation/id/42491/ (Video and a pdf with the precise transcription of the conversation)
Lecture notes
Introduction to philosophy. Some lectures from the winter semester 03/04. Lecture notes for the introduction to theoretical philosophy. download
Introduction to Practical Philosophy. Lecture notes SS 06 Lecture notes for the introduction to practical philosophy. Status: 30.03.2006. Download
Political interventions
Species extinction, factory farming and the poisoning of the world: How capitalist rule is ruining living nature. Lecture Villa Ichon, Bremen; Organiser: MASCH Bremen, 13 November 2025. download
Live only to die - More and more animal life and fewer and fewer species. How the rule of capital is ruining living nature. Junge Welt from 19 March 2025 Download
Moralising vs. morality - Justifications of today's war preparations and the topicality of Immanuel Kant's "On Perpetual Peace". Junge Welt v. 17.12.2024 Download
'Peace needs war training' - how the Federal Chancellor takes offence at Kant's peace treatise. June 2024. Download
40 years of (left-wing?) university reform - seen from their (well-deserved?) results Lecture as part of a year of celebrating the history of Oldenburg University, organised by the University's Presidential Board under the title "40 Years of Oldenburg University - Open for New Paths". December 2014 Download
Where is Carl von Ossietzky University heading? Further lecture in the context of a year proclaimed by the Presidential Board of the University under the title "40 Years of the University of Oldenburg - Open for New Paths" to honour the history of the University of Oldenburg. December 2014 Download
What does the talk of 'violence' attributed to 'nature' conceal? Contributions to the discussion in the television programme "Wissenschaft nachgefragt" (broadcast on 27 May 2011 on oeins television on the local Oldenburg channel).
Speech at the demonstration against the Bologna reform. Oldenburg. 26 November 2009. download
So what remains? - On the present of a left-wing past or Three decades of academic work at the Carl von Ossietzky University. Oldenburg. February 2008. download
Speech at the demonstration against tuition fees. Oldenburg. 8 February 2007. download
Current: "Against the police of God". Article from the taz of 09.05.06. Download
Criticism of the forthcoming study reform. Oldenburg. January 2004. download
Chemists on the home front. I.G.Farben, German Chemistry and National Socialism. Lecture at the University of Oldenburg. May 1985 Download
