Life
Menke studied philosophy,German studies and art history in Heidelberg from 1977 to 1980 and German studies and philosophy under Albrecht Wellmer in Konstanz from 1980 to 1983. He received his doctorate there in 1987 with a dissertation on:Nach der Hermeneutik. Zur Negativität ästhetischer Erfahrung. He completed his habilitation in 1995 at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Tragödie im Sittlichen. Hegel und die Freiheit der Moderne. From 1988 to 1991 Menke was an assistant professor in University of Konstanz,from 1991 to 1997 in Berlin,from 1997 to 1999 Associate Professor at The New School for Social Research,New York,then Professor of Philosophy with a focus on ethics and aesthetics at the University of Potsdam,and since the summer semester of 2009 a professor of practical philosophy (with a special focus on the philosophy of law and political philosophy) in the Exzellenzcluster Normative Orders at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
In addition,Menke held the following positions:from 1995 to 2004,co-applicant of the Research Training Group Repräsentation-Rhetorik-Wissen at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder);from 2001,co-director of the Menschenrechtszentrums (Human Rights Center) at the University of Potsdam;from 2003,project leader in the SFB 626 Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste (Aesthetic Experience in the Context of the Dissolution of Boundaries in the Arts);from 2005,spokesperson of the Research Training Group Lebensformen und Lebenswissen(Life-froms and Life-knowledge).
Menke was also a Heisenberg Fellow and held substitute and guest lectureships at the University of Potsdam,the Free University of Berlin,the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City,the New School for Social Research and Columbia University (both in New York) and was a Fellow at the Max Weber-Kolleg für sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung at the University of Erfurt from 2003 to 2005. Menke is a member of the editorial boards of various journals (Constellations:An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory;Philosophy and Social Criticism;Revue d'Esthétique;Polar).
He is the brother of Bettine Menke,a literary scholar who teaches in University of Erfurt.
Main research areas
Menke's work focuses on political and legal philosophy (democracy and equality;the history and concept of subjective rights;human rights),theories of subjectivity (abilities and action;mind and inner nature),ethics (success and failure;theories of tragedy) and aesthetics (aesthetics of modernity;tragedy and theater). Since the summer semester of 2009,Menke has been leading the research project Normativität und Freiheit (Normativity and Freedom) in the Exzellenzcluster Normative Orders,which aims to investigate how freedom as social normativity is founded and why freedom is always simultaneously freedom from social participation and thus from normativity. Against this background,particular attention is paid to the figure of subjective rights,which characterizes the form of government in modern societies. [3]
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