How Capitalist Domination is Ruining Living Nature – Species Extinction, Factory Farming and the Poisoning of the World. Cologne 2025. 176 pages.
The Liberation of Nature – On the Relationship between Nature and Freedom in Herbert Marcuse. Cologne 2020. 115 pages.
Hegel’s Logic and Chemistry. An Ongoing Commentary on the Real Measure. Edited by F. Nicolin and O. Pöggeler. Hegel Studies, Supplement 34. Bonn 1997. 349 pages.
“On the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate by NADH Catalyzed by Formate Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas oxalaticus”, PhD thesis, University of Heidelberg 1974.
Edited works
(together with H.-G. Bensch and S. Hollewedde): Capital and Nature.A contradiction – irresolvable, turned into profit, destroying the Earth. Cologne 2023.
(with H.-E. Schiller): State and Politics in Horkheimer and Adorno. Baden-Baden 2014.
(with J. Kreuzer): Ernst Bloch. Society and Culture. Selected Writings, Volume 2. Berlin 2010.
Essays
On the genesis of an essay on Kant’s pacifist imperative. Previously unpublished manuscript. February 2026
‘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.
Capitalist domination of living nature – 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thinking Ahead in the Marxist Tradition. Horkheimer’s Critique of Engels. In: Walking Upright in a Crooked Capitalism. Models of Critical Thinking. Edited by R. Dannemann, H. Pickford and H.-E. Schiller. Wiesbaden 2018. pp. 93–119.
The Concept of Substance in Marx. In: Journal of Critical Social Theory and Philosophy. Vol. 4, Nos. 1–2. Berlin 2017. pp. 49–85.
On the Marxism of Critical Theory. Horkheimer’s Reception and Development of Engels’ *The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science*. In: Journal of Critical Theory. Vol. 22 (2016). Nos. 42–43. Lüneburg 2016. pp. 76–96.
On the Concept of Technology in Horkheimer and Adorno. In: Journal of Critical Social Theory and Philosophy. Vol. 3, No. 1. Berlin 2016. pp. 182–208.
Thinking Ahead in the Marxist Tradition: The Theory of the Authoritarian State. In: State and Politics in Horkheimer and Adorno. Edited by U. Ruschig and H.-E. Schiller. Baden-Baden 2014, pp. 73–103.
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.
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.
Karl Jaspers and the Idea of the University. In: Karl Jaspers. Fundamental Concepts of His Thought. Edited by H. R. Yousefi, W. Schüßler, R. Schulz and U. Diehl. Berlin 2011. pp. 333–347.
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.
Introduction. Two Theses and a Corollary. In: Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy 2009. Edited by Myriam Gerhard. Oldenburg 2010. pp. 7–11.
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.
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.
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. pp. 474–492.
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.
Simulated Commodity Production – An Academic Dance Around the Golden Calf. In: *Das Argument* 272: Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, vol. 49 (2007), no. 4, pp. 509–524.
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.
Materialist Dialectics or Systems Theory. In: Reflection, Knowledge, Ethics, Vol. 17/2006, Issue 2, pp. 220–222.
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. Gerhardt, R.-P. Horstmann and R. Schumacher. Berlin, New York 2001. Vol. 3, pp. 315–326.
Logic and Chemistry in Hegel’s Philosophy. In: HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry. Vol. 7 (2001), pp. 5–22
Hegel’s Philosophy of the Chemical Process: a Rehabilitation. In: HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry. Vol. 6 (2000), pp. 175–177.
‘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.
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.
‘Corruption of Science’ in: Traditional Critical Theory. Edited by the Institute of Social Sciences. Würzburg 1995, pp. 21–32.
Marginal notes on the “Knot-line of Proportional Relationships” in: Hegel-Jahrbuch 1989. Edited by H. Kimmerle, W. Lefèvre & R. W. Meyer. Giessen 1989, pp. 365–371.
“Chemical Insights Against One’s Will – Hegel’s Theory in Chemistry” in: Hegel Studien 22. Edited by F. Nicolin & O. Pöggeler. Bonn 1987, pp. 173–179.
“Chemical Insights Against One’s Will – A Critique of the Transition to Elective Affinity in Hegel’s *Science of Logic*” in: *Dialectica Negativa – Against the Progress of the Regression of Thought*. Edited by M. Büchsel & H. Lonitz. Lüneburg 1984, pp. 65–87.
Th. Höpner, U. Ruschig, U. Müller & P. Willnow: “Formate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas oxalaticus” in: Methods in Enzymology Vol 89 (1982), ed. W. A. Wood. New York 1982, pp. 531–537.
U. Ruschig, U. Müller, P. Willnow & Th. Höpner: “CO₂ reduction to formate by NADH catalysed by formate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas oxalaticus”, Eur. J. Biochem. 70 (1976), pp. 325–330.
Reviews
Wolfgang Neuser and Sönke Roterberg (eds.): System Theory, Self-Organisation and Dialectics. On the Methodology of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. In: Hegel Studies, Vol. 48. Edited by Michael Quante and Birgit Sandkaulen. Hamburg 2015. pp. 300–305.
Conversations
Rosa Luxemburg in conversation with Sabine Wegmann: Reflections on Corona, 17 June 2020 nds.rosalux.de/publikation/id/42491/ (video and a PDF containing the exact transcript of the conversation)
