Biography

Prof Dr Tilo Wesche is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg. He specialises in moral philosophy (especially theories of moral judgement and prejudice), political philosophy (especially democratic theory), social philosophy (especially theories and practices of common property) and philosophical anthropology (especially theories of the good life and death). The classical authors that mean the most to him are Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx and Adorno. He is currently working on property research and investigating the questions: Who owns labour? Who owns nature? And who owns the data?

Selected publications

Wesche, Tilo: Kierkegaard. A Philosophical Introduction, Stuttgart: Reclam 2003.

Wesche, Tilo: What is critique? Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2009 (co-edited with Rahel Jaeggi).

Wesche, Tilo: Truth and Value Judgement. A Theory of Practical Rationality, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011.

Wesche, Tilo: Transformations of Democracy, ed. g, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015 (co-edited with Robin Celikates and Regina Kreide).

Wesche, Tilo: Adorno. A philosophical introduction, Stuttgart: Reclam 2018.

Wesche, Tilo: Die demokratische Differenz zwischen besitzindividualistischen und kommunitären Eigentumsgesellschaften, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 28, 2018, pp. 237-261 (co-edited with Hartmut Rosa).

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