Marcus Döller

Autonomy as social practice - sociality and revolution after Hegel

The dissertation works out a basic idea in its tension. The basic idea in its tension is the form determination of the absolute liberation of the subject in social practices and against social practices. In 29 steps and 6 chapters, the basic idea is developed in its opposition. The result is the following conceptual and comprehensible insight. In the tension between idealist radicalism and materialist extremism, both positions split into themselves and know themselves to be related to each other. Idealist radicalism formulates the subject-philosophical presuppositional structures of the pure act-constitution of autonomy. This is described by Gramsci as the “first act of his free initiation”. Materialist extremism, on the other hand, formulates the material conditions of this autonomous act constitution in its social conditionality. The point elaborates the following factual reason: The subject is empowered in and through its liberation into an organizational whole that enables it. In this empowerment, it learns nothing new, it only learns what it already knew but had to repress: the social preconditions of its class-slave positionality.The book carries out this idea in its reverse dialectic and thus attempts to avoid two extremes. One extreme is the extreme of totality. Here the subject would be radically integrated into the organizational totality that politicizes it. The other extreme is that of subjectivity. Here the subject would be quietistically and regressively set free against the organizational whole. In contrast, the dissertation attempts to interpret a free release of the subject in a materialistic way, following a religious model by Hegel, so that both become clear. The politicization of the subject, in which absolute liberation presents itself in and against social practices, must avoid the regressive gestures of withdrawal, but at the same time it must think of the liberation of the subject as a possibility of the politicization of the subject, which allows liberalism to become real for the first time in the liberal freedom of the subject. In the concept of absolute liberation, this normative claim is fulfilled and gains its definiteness. At the same time, however, the book demonstrates that moments of regression are necessary in order to achieve the autonomy of the subject; they are both an effect of the liberation of the subject in modern societies and its precondition. The work provides an emancipatory interpretation of this tension: it is nothing other than the ABSOLUTE liberation of the subject IN social practices and the liberation of the subject in the ABSOLUTE AGAINST social practices. Both mark a tension that must not be overcome, but rather deepened, even intensified.

Academic CV

seit Okt 2018 Doktorand an der IGS "Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices", Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt
2017 Magister Philosophie
2016 BA Germanistik
Seit April 2017 wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtsphilosophie bei Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke am Exzellenzcluster „Herausbildung Normativer Ordnungen“ in Frankfurt am Main
Von 2015-2018 gemeinsam mit Sebastián Tobón Organisator des Internationalen Arbeitskreises für Kritische Theorie am Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main
Von 2015-2017 studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtsphilosophie bei Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke am Exzellenzcluster „Herausbildung Normativer Ordnungen“ in Frankfurt am Main
Von 2012-2015 Arbeit als Hilfskraft im Rahmen der Einführung in die Philosophie als Tutor bei Prof. Dr. Martin Seel
2011 Arbeit als Hilfskraft im Rahmen der Einführung in die Praktische Philosophie als Tutor bei Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke