Dieter Wolf (sociologist)

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Dieter Wolf (* 1942 ) is a German social scientist and computer scientist who has published several papers on the theories of civil society by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx .

Life

Wolf studied mathematics, philosophy , sociology , German and general and comparative literature in Freiburg im Breisgau , Paris and Berlin and received his doctorate with a thesis on Hegel and Marx. He works as a freelance scientist, software developer and was a member of an international working group of computer scientists whose research area is the Semantic Web .

Wolf understands his research and teaching activities as part of an interdisciplinary project, in which he develops an understanding of the connection between natural, social and human sciences based on the connection between natural history and human history.

In his works, Wolf particularly endeavors to provide a scientific representation of the theory of value with special consideration of the commodity fetish and the dialectical contradiction in the capital of Karl Marx. He also takes a critical look at representatives of the new Marx reading .

According to Wolf's interpretation of Capital , Marx claimed for himself the goal already formulated by Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit , "to transform philosophy as 'love of knowledge into real knowledge'". Wolf rejects the accusation of scientism and technological naturalization raised by philosophers against Marx's criticism of political economy, as well as the "manner (...) common among scientists of presenting capital as an unreal ideology and as a work of mystical irrational disguised by Hegel's philosophy ".

Works

Books

  • Hegel and Marx. To the structure of movement of absolute spirit and capital. Hamburg 1979 ( book as PDF file )
  • Hegel's theory of civil society. A materialistic criticism . Hamburg 1980 ( book as PDF file ).
  • The dialectical contradiction in “capital”. A contribution to Marx's theory of value VSA, Hamburg 2002 (new edition of "Ware und Geld". 1985) Table of contents ( book as PDF file )
  • Commodity circulation and commodity fetish. A study of the systematic connection between the first three chapters of “Capital”. 1986 ( book as PDF file ).
  • Critical Theory and Critique of Political Economy. On the confusion of the concept of value, criticism of Reichelt and Backhaus. A critical examination of the writings of Hans-Georg Backhaus and Helmut Reichelt . Contributions to the “capital” discussion. Argument, Hamburg 2004 ( book as PDF file ) (Berlin Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition eV, Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, issue 3).
  • with Michael Sommer: Imaginary meanings and historical barriers to knowledge. A criticism of Cornelius Castoriadis . Argument, Hamburg 2008, (At the same time a contribution to understanding the critique of political economy.); (Book as PDF file .)

Article (selection)

  • The unity of natural and social sciences. A modern interdisciplinary project by Marx and Engels. In contributions to Marx-Engels research. Marx and the natural sciences in the 19th century. New series 2006. Editor Carl-Erich Vollgraf. ( Article as PDF )
  • The transformation of money into capital (transition from money to capital) in the ground plans, in the original text and in capital. Why is the “dialectical form of representation only correct if it knows its limits”? In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2007. Money - Capital - Value. On the 150th anniversary of the writing of Marx's economic manuscripts 1857/58 Grundrisse of the Critique of Political Economy. Argument, Hamburg 2007. ( Article as PDF )
  • On the method in Marx's “Capital” with special consideration of its logical-systematic character On the methodological dispute between Wolfgang Fritz Haug and Michael Heinrich. In: Ingo Elbe, Tobias Reichardt, Dieter Wolf: Social practice and its scientific presentation. Contributions to the capital discussion. Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, No. 6. Argument, Hamburg 2008. Eds. Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl, Rolf Hecker.
  • Social practice and the problem of the money commodity. Critical examination of Ingo Stützle, Michael Heinrich and Jannis Milios. In: Ansgar Knolle-Grothusen, Stephan Krüger, Dieter Wolf: Geldware, Geld und Currency. Basics for solving the problem of money commodities. Hamburg 2009.
  • Quality and quantity of value. A macroeconomic outlook on the relationship between commodity circulation and production.
  • Why was Hegel's “logic” able to “do great service” to Marx? In: Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl, Rolf Hecker (eds.): Contributions to Marx-Engels research, new series 2010. Argument, Hamburg 2011.
  • End or turning point of the story. On the unity of representation and criticism in Hegel and Marx.
  • Deficiencies in Marx's presentation in “Capital” and how Marx could have avoided them, promoting misinterpretations. For the interpretation of metaphors and fundamental facts in the first chapters of "Capital"
  • Abstractions in the economic-social reality and in the "Critique of Political Economy" that depicts this reality
  • The constitutive role of theoretically significant abstractions for the method of scientific representation.
  • Comments on the relationship between value and capital. in connection with a criticism of the mystically irrational mixture of "abstract human work and work process"
  • Marx's understanding of value and abstract human labor as a socially general form of specifically useful work in the "Grundrisse"
  • Semantics, structure and action in Marx's "Capital"
  • A commentary on Theodor W. Adorno's analysis of Marx's “Capital” in Hans-Georg Backhaus's seminar transcript.
  • Jürgen Habermas ' and Alfred Schmidt's criticism of Marx's "production paradigm"
  • Elmar Flatschart's “value-critical” examination of Ingo Elbe's interpretation of capital.
  • Historical barriers to knowledge. Natural history and natural laws. Natural growth and “natural law” character of the capitalist total reproduction process. Value, abstract human labor, work process. On Karl Reitter's defense by Cornelius Castoriadis.
  • On the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete.
  • On the connection between social being and consciousness. ( Article as PDF )
  • Science versus ideology. Holism and Marx's Systems Theory. A critical examination of Mario Bunge. ( Article as PDF )
  • On the architecture of the three volumes of Marx's "Capital" ( article as PDF )
  • Idealistic dialectic-materialistic dialectic. Hegel-Marx-Adorno. A contribution to the interpretation of Marx's capital. Addressing important problems of scientific representation. ( Article as PDF )
  • Andreas Arndt's interpretation of the relationship between Marx and Hegel. As Arndt understands Marx's “Capital” and Hegel's “Logic” in such a way that there is no longer any essential difference between the materialistic dialectics practiced by Marx in “Capital” and the idealistic dialectics practiced by Hegel in his “Philosophy of Spirit”. ( Article as PDF )
  • Hegel's idealistic dialectic “turn head on to feet” or “turn inside out”: For the metaphorical paraphrase, Hegel's idealistic dialectic “turn head on foot” or “turn upside down”. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2018/19 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86754-685-0 , pp. 21-72. ( Excerpt as PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Wolf: The unit of natural and social sciences , in: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode. 2006, p. 93.
  2. ↑ D. Wolf: Habermas' Critique of the “Marxian Production Paradigm” (45 pages pdf), September 2, 2012, p. 6.
  3. ↑ D. Wolf: On the architecture of the three volumes of capital. Part A and B (74 pages pdf), p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Horst Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942