Ça ira publishing house

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ça ira-Verlag is a book publisher in Freiburg and Vienna founded in 1985 by the Socialist Forum Initiative (ISF) and operated by the Institute for Social Criticism Freiburg (ISF) e. V. is operated. The name of the publisher is based on the French revolutionary song Ah! Ça ira back.

The Publisher

The publisher, which is closely associated with the ISF, would like to contribute to the further development of materialistic criticism and enlightenment in the tradition of Adorno's Critical Theory , in order to “promote the establishment of stateless and classless world society, ie to help realize the intentions of Critical Theory, also and especially against Germany. ”In addition, the ISF concentrates on a criticism of the state :“ It wants to help revolutionize a social condition in which, like all roads to Rome in the past, now everyone leads into the state. ”Has next the ISF set itself the task of criticizing left-wing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism , which is not only reflected in the ça ira publishing program, but also in a dedicated partisanship for Zionism . That is why the publishing house focuses on works by authors who are critical of ideology and who have increasingly been part of the so - called anti - German movement since the 1990s , including publications by Joachim Bruhn , Stephan Grigat , Uli Krug and Gerhard Scheit . Joachim Bruhn, who died on February 28, 2019, and Manfred Dahlmann, who also died on December 24, 2017, were the publisher's most important thought leaders and authors. The publishing house always seemed to have been more of a stopgap solution than the actual publishing business, as it sees itself as "a salvage company."

The publisher has been professionalising itself for some time and has taken on the publication of collected publications and was accepted into the Kurt Wolff Foundation 's Circle of Friends in November 2019 .

Regardless of this, the publishing house publishes authors from a broad spectrum of materialistic criticism, including outspoken critics of anti-German positions. In addition to the multi-volume oeuvre by the left-communist '68 forehead Johannes Agnoli, there are works by such different authors as Hans-Georg Backhaus , Matthias Küntzel , Anton Pannekoek , Cajo Brendel , Willy Huhn , Moishe Postone , Alfred Sohn-Rethel , Georg Lukács , Roman Rosdolsky , Eugen Paschukanis and Gerhard Stapelfeldt on the writings published by ça ira. Some of them can be attributed to the council communist movement, in whose tradition the publisher sees itself in its criticism of Marxism-Leninism ; but also discussed council communism critically.

The first publication under its own publisher's title was Stefan Breuer's Aspects of Total Vergesellschaftung (1985). In addition, ça ira sells ISF publications and books by authors such as Ilse Bindseil and Ulrich Enderwitz , which were later included in the company's own publishing program, but which, due to a dispute over the relationship with Israel, kept their distance with the publisher.

For a long time ça ira was part of the Association of Left Publishers (aLiVe), an association of small publishers that has existed since 1994. Since March 2018, ça ira has been using the socialist publishing house delivery system (sova) to supply the book trade and has representatives in Germany and Austria. The publisher is regularly represented at the Leipzig Book Fair as well as the Linke Buchtage Berlin and the Critical Literature Days in Vienna. The publisher has had a branch in Vienna since 2015.

Since October 2012, ça ira has been publishing the newly founded “Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik” sans phrase , which Manfred Dahlmann (1951–2017) and Gerhard Scheit jointly published until 2017 . In 2014 the publisher added the magazine Pólemos - magazine against common sense to its program and distributes it through the website.

The ça ira is also known for its criticism of left-wing anti-Semitism and has published works by the French philosopher and historian Léon Poliakov , Michael Landmann , Binjamin Segel , Alexander Stein , Nathan Weinstock and Karl Selent . The publisher is repeatedly attacked and criticized by traditional leftists. Writings that deal critically with the anti-Semitic pamphlet of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are also published by ça ira, for example by the authors Alexander Stein and Binjamin Segel.

Since 2018, ça ira has published the collected writings of the philosophical Marxist and former director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research Friedrich Pollock , which are edited by Philipp Lenhard and are divided into six volumes. The first volume was published in June 2018. Alfred Sohn-Rethel's collected writings have been published by ça ira since 2012 and are edited by Carl Freytag , Oliver Schlaudt and Françoise Willmann . In addition, the first Alfred Sohn-Rethel biography by Carl Freytag is announced for 2020.

Other books critical of ideology , which can be understood as a continuation and narrowing of the topics of critical theory , can also be found at ça ira. Such are the writings of Joachim Bruhn (What German is), Gerhard Scheit (The tormentable body, criticism of political engagement), Thorsten Fuchshuber (rackets), Carl Wiemer (illness and crime), Manfred Dahlmann (freedom and sovereignty), Devi Dumbadze and Christoph Hesse (unregulated experience), Stephan Grigat (enemy reconnaissance and re-education, post-Nazism revisited), Renate Göllner (freedom and instinct) and Renate Göllner and Ljiljana Radonic (with Freud) are mentioned here as examples.

The works of the religious philosopher Klaus Heinrich , which were previously published by Stroemfeld , have been published by ça ira since 2020 .

Dispute over the inheritance of Johannes Agnolis

The collected works of Johannes Agnoli were published in 1990 with the consent of Johannes Agnoli and also because of personal contact with Joachim Bruhn and Manfred Dahlmann in the ça ira publishing house. After Agnoli's death (2003), the publishing house published an anthology edited by Stephan Grigat with a contribution by Johannes Agnoli. His widow Barbara Görres-Agnoli, who had the exploitation rights to Johannes Agnoli's work until her death, did not agree with the publication of the article and sued for the withdrawal of the posthumously published volume. In an open letter, she complained that Agnoli's posthumous contribution had been changed and not authorized and that it appeared in a context that “does not correspond to Agnoli's political thinking and acting”. The publisher stated in December 2006 that Barbara Görres-Agnoli had lost the trial after a new appointment was made in the ruling chamber: “The chamber at that time (three judges) was still fully behind Barbara Agnoli, which threatened legal, political and financial disaster, so This year the tide turned. The Chamber was reshuffled and now had a prudent chairman who managed the process sensibly. The testimony of those who were preparing the publication of the lecture in dispute with Johannes Agnoli at that time convinced the Arbitration Panel that everything had come about with the right things. At that time Johannes Agnoli gave his blessing for the planned publication of his lecture. This fact has now been legally established and removes the basis for the injunctive relief of Ms. Agnoli, who demanded the destruction of the books that had not yet been sold. Agnoli's lawyer did not appeal. ”The outcome of the trial reinforced the impression that the legal dispute was rather a political dispute over the authority to interpret the work of Johannes Agnoli. In addition, the publisher explained that the legal dispute had come about in such a way that the widow Johannes Agnolis was rejected by the publisher herself: “The relationship between his wife Barbara Agnoli and ça ira, on the other hand, was always fraught with conflict, especially after the publisher had rejected a manuscript from her . She felt misunderstood and, as she said, when , stupid Tippse ' made in the shade. "

The costs of the civil dispute brought the ça ira publishing house, which denied the allegations, to the brink of bankruptcy, even if the Görres-Agnolis complaint was dismissed in 2006 and another complaint by the widow for access to the publisher's sales with Agnolis Works ended in a settlement. After the reprint rights for the title The Transformation of Democracy by Görres-Agnoli were withdrawn , the new edition of Agnoli's main work was published in 2004 by Konkret Literatur Verlag . Other works by Johannes Agnoli have been published by the Stuttgart butterfly publishing house.

Exclusion from the Left Literature Fair

In 2008 the ça ira publishing house was excluded from the Left Literature Fair in Nuremberg. Most of the publishers participating in the fair saw no basis for cooperation with the Freiburg publishing house. The main reason was a book published by the ça ira publishing house, “in which war policy was advocated”. In the Israeli daily Times of Israel , however, the organizers of the Left Literature Fair were criticized for their benevolent treatment of left anti-Semitism.

University publications in the ça ira publishing house

  • Jens Benicke : From Adorno to Mao: on the bad repeal of the anti-authoritarian movement, ça ira Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-924627-83-6 (dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, 259 pages, 21 cm).
  • Moishe Postone : Time, Labor and Social Domination, a new interpretation of the critical theory of Marx , (original title: Time, Labor, and Social Domination, translated by Christoph Seidler). ça ira Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 3-924627-58-4 (Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main [2003], 616 pages, 22 cm, English, German).
  • Nadja Rakowitz: Simple production of goods: Ideal and ideology , ça ira Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-924627-65-7 (dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 2000, 381 pages, 21 cm).
  • Klaus Thörner: "The whole south-east is our hinterland": German south-east European plans from 1840 to 1945 , 3 volumes, ça ira Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-924627-84-3 (dissertation University of Oldenburg 2000, volume 1: 1840– 1914 , X, 244 sheets, ct., 31 cm; Volume 2: 1914–1929 , sheets 245–393, ct., 31 cm; Volume 3: 1929–1945 , sheets 394–605, ct., 31 cm).
  • Wolfgang Rieger: luck technique and need in life. Life and work of Franz Jungs , with a Franz Jung bibliography by Walter Fähnders , ça ira Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, ISBN 3-924627-09-6 (dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, 268 pages, 21 cm).

Collected writings in ça ira-Verlag

Alfred Sohn-Rethel

  • Volume 1: From the analysis of economics to the theory of economics. Early writings. Published by Carl Freytag and Oliver Schlaudt, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86259-109-1 .
  • Volume 2: German economic policy in the transition to Nazi fascism. Analyzes 1932–1948 and additional texts. Published by Carl Freytag and Oliver Schlaudt, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br./Wien 2015, ISBN 978-3-86259-120-6 .
  • Volume 3: Early Exposés on the Materialist Critique of Knowledge. Lucerne - Paris - Oxford. 1936–1937 and additional texts. Published by Jens Peters, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg / Vienna, ISBN 978-3-86259-131-2
  • Volume 4: mental and physical work. 1947-1989. In two volumes. Edited by Carl Freytag, Oliver Schlaudt and Françoise Willmann, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-86259-121-3

Friedrich Pollock

  • Volume 1: Marxist Writings. Collected Writings, Volume 1 . Published by Philipp Lenhard, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-86259-132-9 .
  • Volume 2: Writings on the planned economy and crisis. Collected writings, volume 2. Edited by Johannes Gleixner and Philipp Lenhard, Freiburg / Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-86259-133-6 .

Klaus Heinrich

  • Dahlem lectures 1: tertium datur. A religious-philosophical introduction to logic. Wolfgang Albrecht, Rüdiger Hentschel, Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Peter Lux, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Jürgen Strutz, Irene Tobben, ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg / Vienna 1981, ISBN 978-3-86259-152-7 .
  • Dahlem lectures 2: anthropomorphic. On the problem of anthropomorphism in the philosophy of religion. Edited by Wolfgang Albrecht, Rüdiger Hentschel, Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Peter Lux, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Jürgen Strutz, Irene Tobben, Freiburg / Vienna 1986, ISBN 978-3-86259-153-4 .
  • Dahlem lectures 3: working with Oedipus. Concept of displacement in religious studies. Edited by Wolfgang Albrecht, Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Irene Tobben, Freiburg / Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-86259-154-1 .
  • Dahlem Lectures 4: Thinking of the Alliance. Philosophy of religion. Published by Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Freiburg / Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-86259-155-8 .
  • Dahlem lectures 7: psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud and the problem of the concrete social general. Published by Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Freiburg / Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-86259-156-5 .
  • Dahlem lectures 8: socially mediated relationship to nature. Concept of enlightenment in religions and religious studies. Published by Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Freiburg / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-86259-157-2 .
  • Dahlem lectures 8: working with herakles. On the figure and problem of the hero / antiquity and modern forms of its interpretation and instrumentalization. Published by Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Freiburg / Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-86259-158-9 .
  • Dahlem lectures: Karl Friedrich Schinkel / Albert Speer. Dahlem lectures: On the relationship between the aesthetic and the transcendental subject. An architectural examination of the NS. 8 lectures on Schinkel and 4 lectures on Speer. Freiburg / Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-86259-172-5 .
  • Parmenides and Jonah. Four studies on the relationship between philosophy and mythology. Freiburg / Vienna 1982. ISBN 978-3-86259-160-2 .
  • Try to say no to the difficulty. Freiburg / Vienna 1964. ISBN 978-3-86259-161-9 .
  • Raft of the Medusa. Three studies on the history of fascination. Freiburg / Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-86259-159-6 .
  • Children of the Nibelungs. Klaus Heinrich and Heiner Müller in conversation with Peter Kammerer and Wolfgang Storch. Edited by Günther Heerg, Stefan Schnabel and KD Wolff. Freiburg / Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-86259-167-1 .
  • Speeches and little writings 1: start with joy. Freiburg / Vienna 1997. ISBN 978-3-86259-162-6 .
  • Holding on to Freud. A Heine-Freud miniature on the still current role of the enlightener Freud. Reprint from the journal for psychoanalytic theory and practice, vol. XXII, issue 3 (2007). Freiburg / Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-86259-166-4 .
  • Speeches and little writings 2: giving society an awareness of itself. Freiburg / Vienna 1998. ISBN 978-3-86259-163-3 .
  • Speeches and little writings 3: conjure up demons - laugh at disasters. Freiburg / Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-86259-164-0 .
  • Speeches and little writings 4: the dust and the think. Freiburg / Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-86259-165-7 .

Johannes Agnoli

  • Volume 1: The transformation of democracy and other writings on the critique of politics. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1990, ISBN 3-924627-20-7 .
  • Volume 2: The state of capital and other writings on the critique of politics. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1995, ISBN 3-924627-32-0 .
  • Volume 3: Subversive Theory: “The thing itself” and its history. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1999, ISBN 3-924627-41-X .
  • Volume 4: Fascism Without Revision. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1997, ISBN 3-924627-47-9 .
  • Volume 5: 1968 and the consequences. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-924627-59-2 .
  • Volume 6: Politics and History. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2001, ISBN 3-924627-67-3 .

Manfred Dahlmann

  • Volume 1: Freedom and Sovereignty. Critique of the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Freiburg / Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-86259-108-4 .
  • Volume 2: The Enigma of Power. Michel Foucault's concept of power and the crisis of the theory of revolution. Freiburg / Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-86259-139-8 .
  • Volume 3: The Enigma of Capital. On the criticism of political economy. Edited by David Hellbrück and Gerhard Scheit. Freiburg / Vienna 2020. ISBN 978-3-86259-138-1 .

Writings on anti-Semitism

  • Alexander Stein: Adolf Hitler, student of the "Elders of Zion". Ed. V. Lynn Ciminski and Martin Schmitt. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86259-103-9 .
  • Karl Selent: A glass of Yarden wine on the Israeli Golan. Polemics, heresy and history on the endless war against Israel. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2003, ISBN 3-924627-18-5 .
  • Gerhard Scheit: Hidden State, Living Money. On the dramaturgy of anti-Semitism. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1999, ISBN 3-924627-63-0 .
  • Moishe Postone: Germany, the Left and the Holocaust. Political Interventions. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2005, ISBN 3-924627-33-X .
  • Léon Poliakov: From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1992, ISBN 3-924627-31-2 .
  • Matthias Küntzel: Jihad and hatred of Jews. About the new anti-Semitic war. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2002, ISBN 3-924627-06-1 .
  • Initiative Socialist Forum: Terrible Anti-Semites, Honorable Anti-Zionists. About Israel and the left German ideology. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2002, ISBN 3-924627-08-8 .
  • Stephan Grigat: Fetish and Freedom. About the reception of Marx's fetish criticism, the emancipation of state and capital and the criticism of anti-Semitism. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2007, ISBN 3-924627-89-4 .
  • Ulrich Enderwitz: Anti-Semitism and the People's State. On the pathology of capitalist crisis management. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-924627-28-2 .
  • Michael Landmann: The Israel pseudo of the pseudo left. ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2013, ISBN 978-3-86259-119-0 .
  • Binjamin Segel: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. An errand (1924). ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-86259-123-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b ça ira Verlag: Declaration on the dispute with the community of heirs Johannes Agnoli
  3. ^ Joachim Bruhn: Abolition of the State. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Ça ira Verlag / Initiative Socialist Forum (Freiburg / Vienna). Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Communism and Israel. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Membership | ça ira publishing house . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  7. ^ Friends of the Kurt Wolff Foundation. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Unique: Thinker of Subversive Criticism | Unique. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 20, 2017 ; accessed on August 20, 2017 (German).
  9. ↑ Open letter to Gerhard Scheit | ça ira publishing house . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Dahlmann's answer to “Quo vadis Ça ira?” | ça ira publishing house . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Help and FAQ | ça ira publishing house . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  12. ↑ ça ira Verlag - News from the publishing house and association . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Exhibitor details | Book fair - fair for readers, authors and publishers. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
  14. ↑ exhibitors . In: Critical Literature Days . April 19, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  15. ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Manfred Dahlmann - Mourning - Obituaries & Obituaries - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on July 29, 2018]).
  16. ↑ sans phrase | Journal of ideological criticism. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Muslim hatred in the Mehringhof . In: rhizom . ( blogsport.eu [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Explanation of the hustle and bustle surrounding the “exclusion” of Laika-Verlag from the “Linke Buchtage Berlin 2012” | ça ira publishing house . In: ça ira-Verlag . ( ca-ira.net [accessed July 29, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Friedrich Pollock: Collected writings in six volumes - Jewish history and culture - LMU Munich. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Alfred Sohn-Rethel. In: ça ira-Verlag. Retrieved on August 7, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ Preview: Spring 2020. In: ça ira-Verlag. January 14, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2020 (German).
  22. ↑ literaturkritik.de: "The widow against the publisher"
  23. ↑ Barbara Agnoli: Barbara Agnoli on Grigat on Johannes Agnoli , open letter, April 7, 2004
  24. ↑ a b Barabara Agnoli loses trial against Stephan Grigat and ça ira-Verlag. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Peter Nowak: Meaning distorting errors (new Germany). Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  26. ^ Declaration by the Ça ira publishing house on the dispute with the Johannes Agnoli community of heirs. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  27. ↑ ça ira Verlag: "Barbara Agnoli loses trial against Stephan Grigat and ça ira-Verlag"
  28. ↑ Joachim Bruhn: The Transformation of Democracy - Books also have their fate, especially this one
  29. ↑ Verlag Jörg Exner, www.vbje.de: Schmetterling Verlag: Johannes Agnoli (author information). Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Schattenblick, online newspaper: Linksliteraten - and Nuremberg of all places ... An interview with Robert from the Left Literature Fair (SB)
  31. ^ Pandemonium as Nuremberg city council bans anti-Semitic photography exhibit . In: The Times of Israel . ( timesofisrael.com [accessed August 20, 2017]).

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