Hans-Georg Backhaus

Hans-Georg Backhaus (* 1929 ) is a German economist and philosopher and one of the most important scientists in the field of Marx's theory of value . A long-term collaboration with Helmut Reichelt began in his student years . Both are considered to be co-founders of the New Marx Reading .

Life

During his studies (among others with Theodor W. Adorno ) in the 1960s, he began to deal with the Marxian theory of value. Since the 1970s he has published several articles on Marxian economic criticism.

He worked as a lecturer at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Bremen and was involved in the founding of the “Marx Colloquium”, from which the Marx-Gesellschaft e. V. , based in Hamburg, was involved.

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monograph

• Dialectic of the form of value . Studies on Marx's economic criticism , Freiburg i. Br. 1997, ISBN 3-924627-52-5 .

Contributions (selection)

• "Materials for the reconstruction of Marx's theory of value." In: Society. Contributions to Marx's theory 11 . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​1978, pp. 16-177
• “How is the concept of value to be conceived in the economy? On Michael Heinrich: The Science of Value. ”(With Helmut Reichelt ) in: Contributions to Marx-Engels Research, New Series 1995. Hamburg, 1995. pp. 60–94
• "About the double meaning of the terms" political economy "and" criticism "in Marx and in the Frankfurt School", in: Stefan Dornuf / Reinhard Pitsch (eds.), Wolfgang Harich zum Gedächtnis. A memorial in two volumes, Vol. 2, Munich 2000, pp. 12–213.

literature

• Werner Bonefeld: dialectic of the value form: Studies on Marx's Okonomiekritik (The Dialectic of the value form: Investigations into Marx's Critique of Economics).
• Werner Bonefeld: Kapital and its subtitle: A note on the meaning of critique .
• Nils Fröhlich: The Marxian theory of value: Representation and present meaning . ( PDF )
• Jan Hoff: Critique of Classical Political Economy. On the reception of value-theoretical approaches to economic classics by Karl Marx , Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89438-314-3 .
• Christine Kirchhoff, Hanno Pahl, Christoph Engemann, Judith Heckel, Lars Meyer (eds.): Society as reversal. Perspectives on a new reading of Marx. Festschrift for Helmut Reichelt , Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-924627-26-6 .
• Ken Kubota: The dialectical presentation of the general concept of capital in the light of Hegel's philosophy. On the logical analysis of political economy with special consideration of Adorno and the research results of Rubin, Backhaus, Reichelt, Uno and Sekine (PDF), in: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2009, pp. 199-224. doi : 10.4444 / 100.100.de .
• Lars Meyer: Absolute value and general will. On the self-justification of dialectical social theory , Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-224-5 .
• Dieter Wolf : Fiction of a concept of value online version (211 pages pdf; 897 kB), part C, pages 137-210, In: Dieter Wolf, Heinz Paragenings: To the confusion of the concept of value. Contributions to the “Capital” discussion , Hamburg 2004 ISBN 978-3-88619-651-7 , (Berlin Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition eV, Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, Issue 3)

Web links

• Checked, continuously updated selection bibliography with links and materials
• Lecture by Hans-Georg Backhaus: Adorno and the meta-economic criticism of the positivist national economy (MP3)
• Reading sample from Dialectics of the Form of Value ( Memento of April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) </
• Marx Society eV