Dirk Setton
Philosophy
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Dirk Setton,is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Frankfurt University, Germany.
Research Interest
Normativity and freedom in Kant and in German idealism. Theories of ability, conceptual power, power, and potentiality. Conceptions of the imagination and aesthetics of the image. Theory of action and the problem of irrationality. Theories of Self-Consciousness. Aesthetics and knowledge. Language Philosophy in 'Poststructuralism'.
Publications
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lienation from Ineffectiveness. On the Deconstruction of the Ability ", in: Theories of Passivity , eds. v. Kathrin Busch and Helmut Draxler, Munich: Fink 2013, p. 80-95.
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"I Think, I Am Mad Derrida, Gaslight and the Irony often he Cogito, in: The Oxford Literary Review 36 (2014), p. 81-93.
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"Hegel's imagination and the true horror: the undead as a form of imagination. Response to Felix Ensslin ", in: Suspensions. About Undead , eds. v. Carolin Blumenberg, Alexandra Heimes, Erica Weitzman and Sophie Witt, Munich: Fink 2015 (in the show)
