Berlin Debate Initial

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Berlin Debate Initial
Logo of Berlin Debate Initial
description Social and humanities journal
Area of ​​Expertise Social sciences and humanities
language German
publishing company WeltTrends eV
First edition 1990
Frequency of publication quarterly, bimonthly until 2008
Sold edition 550 copies
editor Berlin Debate Initial eV
Web link www.berlinerdebatte.de
ISSN (print) 0863-4564

Berliner Debatte Initial is a German-language social and humanities journal . It appears four times a year. Each issue is devoted to a key topic and also contains a general section with further articles as well as reviews and reviews of current specialist books.

history

Berliner Debatte Initial was founded in 1990 after the 1989 revolutions against the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe by GDR social scientists who felt particularly committed to the ideas of glasnost and perestroika . It was initially called Initial - magazine for politics and society and appeared in the publisher Volk und Welt, which was later wound up . From 1991 to 2000 it was called Berliner Debatte INITIAL - Journal for Social Science Discourse , and since 2001 it has been called Berliner Debatte Initial. Social and humanities journal . The magazine has been published by the “Berliner Debatte Initial eV” association since 1992 and has been published by WeltTrends since 2012 .

Cover of issue 1/2020
Cover of a booklet

content

The spectrum of topics covered by the Berliner Debatte Initial ranges from transformation and Eastern European research, which was the focus in the 1990s, through the history of ideas, philosophical and social theoretical issues to current debates in economic policy, social theory and cultural sociology. The journal is aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary readership with the intention of critically reflecting on the socio-economic, political and cultural processes of change in Germany, Europe and the world and initiating public debates about them.

The self-image of the magazine was outlined in issue 4/1990. She “sees in science, true to the tradition of the Enlightenment, which once had a home in Berlin, the general of all human views and insights, from whatever special position, party-political point of view or ideological prerequisite they are always won.” INITIAL sees itself fundamentally committed to anti-fascist and democratic goals and wants to "not speak to any particular party, but rather be a social-theoretical forum to discuss scientific considerations of different schools of thought on economic, sociological, political, psychological, cultural and ecological problems of social progress". The commitment to enlightenment in the sense of a modern understanding of the Kantian project of liberation from self-inflicted immaturity was essential from the beginning, as was the reference to evolutionary theory and a pragmatic discursive reformism, combined with the belief that the world could get better. The societal, social, economic and cultural upheavals in East Germany and in Eastern Europe are topics of the magazine. There are also humanities topics - from community and society to war and envy to the Marxian legacy, (economic) depression, Long Waves and the legacy of Keynes - as well as regional - China, India, Israel, Europe - and cultural studies topics. The magazine has been going beyond the casual observation of mass spectator sports since 1995, i. H. since the peak of the German boxing boom with the former German boxer Henry Maske , has critically accompanied the re-establishment of professional boxing in the German public and its media landscape.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erhard Crome, Lutz Kirschner: Berlin Debate INITIAL. Social science discourse in the 10th year . In: Berlin Debate INITIAL. Journal for social science discourse . tape 10 , no. 2 . Berliner Debatte Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-931703-32-0 , ISSN  0863-4564 , p. 124-125 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich Busch, Thomas Müller: Editorial: 30 Years . In: Berliner Debatte Initial . tape 30 , no. 4 . WeltTrends Potsdamer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-947802-26-5 , ISSN  0863-4564 , p. 2–4, here: p. 4 .
  3. ↑ Board Berliner debate INITIAL eV: Our self-image or what does INITIAL? In: INITIAL. Journal for Politics and Society . tape 1 , no. 4 . Volk und Welt, 1990, ISSN  0863-2707 , p. 442-443, here: p. 442 .
  4. ↑ Board Berliner debate INITIAL eV: Our self-image or what does INITIAL? In: INITIAL. Journal for Politics and Society . tape 1 , no. 4 . Volk und Welt, 1990, ISSN  0863-2707 , p. 442-443, here: p. 442 .