The argument
| The argument
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| description | Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences |
| publishing company | Argument Verlag, Hamburg |
| First edition | 1959 |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
| Sold edition | approx. 2,000 copies |
| editor |
Wolfgang Fritz Haug , Frigga Haug , Peter Jehle, Berlin Institute for Critical Theory |
| Web link | website |
| Article archive | archive |
| ISSN (print) | 0004-1157 |
The Argument - Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences was founded in 1959 as an independent science journal for a Marxist- oriented West German left. It appears in six issues per year, with the last issue of the year usually being a double issue. Since 2005 the journal has been published by the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory ; it appears in the Argument Verlag . The magazine is a cooperation partner of Linksnet .
Origin and shape
The magazine emerged from the protests against nuclear armament in the Federal Republic of Germany. It was edited from the beginning by Wolfgang Fritz Haug (now emeritus professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin ). The magazine began as a collection of stapled sheets of paper in a leaflet format . In the first ten years of its existence, it expanded its range of topics and changed its subtitle twice. Initially it was called "Berlin Hefts for Politics and Culture", from November 1963 "Berlin Hefts for Problems in Society". Since 1969 it has been the subtitle "Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences", which is still valid today.
The magazine was of great importance for the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It was based closely on the journal for social research of the Frankfurt School (in which the most important articles by thinkers such as Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Erich Fromm , Herbert Marcuse and many others were published in the 1930s ); numerous surviving representatives of the school also shaped the image of Das Argument in the first decade .
Within the student movement, the argument for its critical-constructive engagement with the DKP and the SEW was known. Articles that analyzed "bourgeois-affirmative" were rejected. Later the magazine turned away from more orthodox-Marxist positions. It has represented plural Marxism since the mid-1980s and has a cooperative relationship with the historical-critical dictionary of Marxism and the prison notebooks of the Italian political thinker and Marxist Antonio Gramsci .
Numerous writers have worked with the argument for years. In the past, this included a. Christa Wolf , Erich Fried and Peter Weiss . Today the argument works u. a. with Elfriede Jelinek and Volker Braun . It has been published since 2005 with changing editorial departments, fed by a large pool of international scientists. Each issue of the magazine is dedicated to a key topic and contains an extensive review section.
Topics (2011)
- Marxism - Labor and Economy - Women
- Fascism Research Antonio Gramsci - Ideology
- Sociology - Feminism - Culture
- Politics and Society - Memory Work
- Literature - Philosophy - (Anti) Racism
- Critical Medicine - Marx-Engels Research - Critical Psychology
editorial staff
In 2013 the editorial team:
- Wolfgang Fritz Haug (editor, philosophy); Frigga Haug (editor, feminism); Peter Jehle (editor, literature)
- Wolfram Adolphi ; Ingo Lauggas (art and culture); Jan Loheit; Ruth May; Jutta Meyer-Siebert; Sissy Müller; Christof Ohm (technology criticism); Sabine Plonz; Bernd Röttger (economics); Ilse Schütte; Oliver Walkenhorst (ecology); Alban Werner; Gerhard Zimmer (Education)
- Review editors : Ingar Solty (social movements and politics); Lars Lambrecht and Rainer Schultz (history); Rainer Alisch (philosophy)
The organ's scientific advisory board includes Dick Boer , Frank Deppe , Domenico Losurdo , Thomas Sablowski and Thomas Seibert .