Argument publisher
| Argument publisher | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1959 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Frigga Haug and Else Laudan |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | argument.de |
The Argument Verlag is a German publisher with headquarters in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1959 by Wolfgang Fritz Haug in Berlin . Initially the publishing program included leaflets, later the magazine Das Argument was added. Together with Frigga Haug , Haug also published the book series Argument special volumes . This was followed by the series of argument study booklets , which should keep basic and introductory texts available for working groups.
program
In the field of science, the publishing house is dedicated to the renewal of left-wing theory. In terms of content, theories of fascism , work and automation , ideology theory , gender relations , racism and migration , philosophy and cultural theory are topics of discussion. Current focus is on the criticism and further development of Marxism , feminism , critical theory , political education , critical psychology and medicine as well as political non-fiction. The main works are the writings of Antonio Gramsci , Stuart Hall , Klaus Holzkamp as well as Frigga Haug and Wolfgang Fritz Haug themselves and the 15-volume historical-critical dictionary of Marxism published by the Haugs and Peter Jehle since 1994 . The publishing house cooperates with the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory in the publication of many books .
The journal Das Argument contains analyzes and discourses on key issues of left-wing social criticism.
The " Ariadne Kriminalromane " series is mainly about crime novels by new German-speaking authors. These include works by Monika Geier , Christine Lehmann's hardboiled series around Lisa Nerz and Merle Kröger's socially critical crime novels. The publisher is Else Laudan. The series was founded by Frigga Haug in the late 1980s.
In September 2019 the publisher was awarded the German Publishing Prize.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Winner of the first German Publishing Award. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .