Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School

199 Pages·2019·1.215 MB·English

by  Lothar Peter

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WolfgangAbendrothatastudentforumintheAudimaxlecturehall,
PhilippsUniversityofMarburg,19January1972
Photograph by Dr. Witich Roßmann
Marx on Campus
AShortHistoryof theMarburgSchool
By
LotharPeter
Translatedby
LorenBalhorn
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Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
IngarSolty
1 AbendrothSchoolorMarburgSchool? 21
1 WhatConstitutesaSchoolofThought? 21
2 Whythe‘MarburgSchool’? 23
2 FirstPhase:GradualFormation,1950totheMid-1960s 29
1 SocialandPoliticalContext 29
2 WolfgangAbendroth(1906–85) 30
3 Students,DoctoralCandidates,Staff 37
3 SecondPhase:Emergenceofan‘EpistemicCommunity’,Mid-1960sto
Early1970s 41
1 SocialandPoliticalContext 41
2 WernerHofmann(1922–69) 43
3 HeinzMaus(1911–78) 50
4 Abendroth,Hofmann,andMaus’sUnderstandingofMarxand
Marxism 52
5 TheMarburgandFrankfurtSchools:‘SocialCritique’or‘Artistic
Critique’? 66
6 DominanceoftheMarxistParadigm 81
4 ThirdPhase:ContinuityandNewChallenges.Abendroth’sRetirementto
theEarly1980s 88
1 SocialandPoliticalContext 88
2 ThePoliticalSociologyofWorkerConsciousnessandtheTrade
Unions(FrankDeppe) 91
3 TheHistoryofGermanSocialDemocracy(GeorgFülberthandJürgen
Harrer) 96
4 StudyingFascism(ReinhardKühnl) 99
5 ThePoliticalSociologyofLatinAmerica(DieterBoris) 102
6 ExternalPressure,AdministrativeInterference,Difficult
Encounters 105
x contents
7 AControversialHistoryoftheTradeUnions 111
8 TheoreticalConflict:TheIdentityofMarxism 118
5 TheMarburgSchoolsincethe1980s 125
1 APrematureFarewell 125
2 AContributiontoConstitutionalLaw(PeterRömer) 127
3 MarburgintheHistorikerstreit(ReinhardKühnl) 129
4 ActivitiesandInteractionsintheAcademicSphere 131
6 FourthPhase:Fromthe‘EpochalRupture’of1989–90totheEarly
2000s 135
1 SocialandPoliticalContext 135
2 Confrontingthe‘EpochalRupture’(GeorgFülberth) 136
3 ReactingtoaChangedSituation 139
4 Excursus:AConversationbetweenUlrichBeckandFrankDeppeon
theStateofPoliticalOppositioninGermany 140
7 ScholarlyFocusessincethe1990s 145
1 ResearchActivityandaNewConflict 145
2 SocialMovementsinLatinAmerica(DieterBoris) 147
3 CapitalismandKapitalistik(GeorgFülberth) 149
4 PoliticalThoughtfromtheLateNineteenthtotheEarlyTwenty-First
Century(FrankDeppe) 151
8 Conclusion 156
Bibliography 161
Index 181