Manuel Clemens: Das Dilemma der Unmittelbarkeit

Reviewed by Peter Flick, 2026-07-13
Translated from German version by DeepL

Manuel Clemens: Das Dilemma der Unmittelbarkeit. Zm autoritären und anti-autoritären Charakter bei Lessing, Adorno und Foucault. transcript (Bielefeld) 2025. 329 pages. ISBN 978-3-8376-7780-5. D: 50,00 EUR, A: 51,40 EUR, CH: 61,00 sFr.

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Through his book, the author aims to place a greater emphasis on respect for others – rooted in the physical and emotional – at the heart of ethical reflection. However, the author’s thesis regarding the persistence of the ‘authoritarian character’ in the present day remains just as controversial in specialist sociological literature as his critique of the Enlightenment, which argues that emotions are too readily dismissed and declared ‘wrong’ in contemporary moralising discourse.

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Lehrer, unterrichtet die Fächer Sozialwissenschaften, Praktische Philosophie und Deutsch
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