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The Democratic Case for Judicial Review
12.04.2021

The Democratic Case for Judicial Review

A Participatory interpretation of the internal relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy Lecture by Prof. Cristina Lafont (Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University) Commentators […]

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Constitutivism and the Rule of Law
29.03.2021

Constitutivism and the Rule of Law

Lecture by Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Universität Wien) within the Lecture Series on “Rule of Law and Democracy” on March 26th 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University. […]

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Crisis of democracy: Rule of law and Rule by law
25.03.2021

Crisis of democracy: Rule of law and Rule by law

Lecture by Prof. Klaus Günther (Goethe University, Normative Orders) Commentators Prof Michael Wilkinson (London School of Economics) and Dr María Emilia Barreyro (Goethe University, Normative Orders) within the Lecture Series […]

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Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen – ein Thema für Datenschutz und Antidiskriminierungsrecht?
08.02.2021

Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen – ein Thema für Datenschutz und Antidiskriminierungsrecht?

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg (Universität Trier) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 3. Februar 2021. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, […]

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Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory
04.02.2021

Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory

Booklaunch on January 28, 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with Laliv Melamed, PhD (Post-Doc, “Konfigurationen des Films”), Philipp Dominik Keidl, PhD (Post-Doc, […]

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Haftung für Künstliche Intelligenz – droht ein Verantwortungsvakuum?
01.02.2021

Haftung für Künstliche Intelligenz – droht ein Verantwortungsvakuum?

Vortrag von Prof. Christiane Wendehorst (Universität Wien) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 25. Januar 2021. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, „Normative Orders“), […]

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Disasters and Social Reproduction – Crisis Response between the State and Community
27.01.2021

Disasters and Social Reproduction – Crisis Response between the State and Community

Booklaunch with Dr. Peer Illner (Normative Orders, Goethe University) and Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Normative Orders, Goethe University) an Prof. Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe University) on January 22nd 2021 within […]

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Gesellschaft als digitale Sozialmaschine?
18.01.2021

Gesellschaft als digitale Sozialmaschine?

Zur soziotechnischen Transformation des selbstbestimmten Lebens Vortrag von Prof. Jörn Lamla (Universität Kassel) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 16. Dezember 2020. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), […]

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Kant's Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the "Critique of Pure Reason"
10.12.2020

Kant’s Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the “Critique of Pure Reason”

Booklaunch mit Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Jakob Huber (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Sofie Møller (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Susan Shell (Boston College), […]

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Legal effect in computational ‘law’
18.11.2020

Legal effect in computational ‘law’

Vortrag von Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 11. November 2020. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, „Normative […]

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Normative Orders Insights mit Jakob Huber
12.08.2020

Normative Orders Insights mit Jakob Huber

Dr. Jakob Huber beantwortet im Rahmen der Reihe “Normative Orders Insights” 5 Fragen zu seiner Forschung mit Blick auf die Coronakrise. *Ausführliche Frage von Franziska Fay aus dem Vorgänger-Video: “Hoffnung […]

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The Normative Orders of the Anthropocene
16.07.2020

The Normative Orders of the Anthropocene

Teaser for “The Normative Orders of the Anthropocene” by Umberto Mario Sconfienza. In “Navigating Normative Orders”, Campus Verlag, July 2020. Learn more about the book here.

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News from the research center

News
30.06.2025

Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

The article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich has just been published open access in the European Journal of Political Theory (EJPT). Ulrich brings the perspective of radical realism into a productive dialog with Adorno's critical theory.

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News
30.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay awarded the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Prize 2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Junior Professor of Ethnology with a focus on Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and former postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University) receives the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Award 2025 in the category Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Publication
25.06.2025 | Online article

Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

Ulrich, Amadeus (2025): Ideology and suffering: What is realistic about critical theory? European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251351782

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News
24.06.2025

New series “Vertrauensfragen” in the Frankfurter Rundschau initiated by Hendrik Simon

Democracy thrives on debate - if it serves the joint search for solutions. There is often a problem with this cooperation. The new FR series “Vertrauensfragen”, initiated by Hendrik Simon (Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Frankfurt location at Goethe University's Research Centre Normative Orders ), examines why this is the case and how we can do better.

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Publication
23.06.2025 | Working Paper

Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina

Moreno, Guadalupe (2025): “Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina”. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 25/3.

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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Publication
19.05.2025 | Anthology

Klimaethik. Ein Reader

Sparenborg, Lukas; Moellendorf, Darrel (Hrsg.) (2025) : Klimaethik. Ein Reader. Suhrkamp.

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News
19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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News
05.05.2025

Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.

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