Christoph Menke is a German philosopher and Germanist and has been a professor of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main since 2009. He is considered an important representative of the 'third generation' of the Frankfurt School.Menke works primarily on topics of political and legal philosophy, theories of subjectivity, ethics and aesthetics. Since summer semester 2009, Menke heads the Normativity and Freedom research project in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, which aims to investigate how freedom is founded as social normativity and why freedom is always freedom from social participation and thus from normativity. Against this background, particular attention is paid to the figure of subjective rights that characterizes the form of government in modern societies.