Helmut Reichelt

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Helmut Reichelt (* 1939 in Borås , Sweden ) is a German economist and sociologist . Reichelt's social science roots lie in critical theory and he is one of the central authors of the Neue Marx-Reading . His field of research is Marx's theory of value .

Life

Helmut Reichelt was 1,959 at the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Konstanz the High School . He first studied sociology for three semesters at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and then until 1968 at the University of Frankfurt - among others with Theodor Adorno , graduating as a sociologist. A long-term collaboration with Hans-Georg Backhaus began in his student years .

After graduating, Reichelt was assistant to political scientist Iring Fetscher at the Institute for Social Research . In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate by Karl Marx for his work on the logical structure of the concept of capital rer. pole. PhD. In 1971 Reichelt became a professor at the University of Frankfurt. In 1978, on the initiative of Alfred Sohn-Rethel, he was offered the chair for sociological theory at the University of Bremen , where he taught until 2005. The chair was geared towards “Theory of Science and Society, with a special focus on dialectics in the critique of political economy”.

Reichelt has been - with one interruption - chairman of the Marx-Gesellschaft eV since it was founded in February 1994.

Publications

Major works

  • On the logical structure of the concept of capital in Karl Marx. (= Political Economy. History and Criticism). Dissertation . 4th, through Edition, with a foreword by Iring Fetscher . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-434-45027-0 ; Freiburg im Breisgau: Ça Ira, 2001, ISBN 3-924627-76-2 .
  • New Marx reading. On the critique of social science logic. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2008; 2nd edition, Freiburg im Breisgau: Ça Ira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86259-116-9 .

Further publications

  • The connection between value theory and economic categories in Marx. 1999.
  • The Marxian Critique of Economic Categories. Reflections on the problem of validity in the dialectical method of representation in “Capital”. Fall 2001. (PDF)
  • The Marxian Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. 2003. (PDF)
  • Some questions and comments on Nadja's “Critique as Substance of Thought in Kant and Marx”. Spring 2005. (PDF)
  • Marx's Critique of Economic Categories: Reflections on the Problem of Validity in the Dialectical Method of Presentation in Capital. In: Historical Materialism. Volume 15, Number 4, 2007, pp. 3-52 (50). ( abstract )
  • On the constitution of economic objectivity: value, money and capital under the aspect of validity theory. In: Werner Bonefeld, Michael Heinrich (ed.): Capital and criticism. According to the new Marx reading. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-403-5 . ( PDF ) 2010

Editions

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Basic lines of the philosophy of the law. Or natural law and political science in outline. With Hegel's handwritten notes in his hand copy and the oral additions. (= Ullstein books. No. 2929). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-548-02929-9 .
  • Hans-Georg Backhaus et al. (Ed.): Society. Contributions to Marx's theory. (= edition suhrkamp. 695). Part 1, with contributions by Helmut Reichelt, Claudia von Braunmühl , Joachim Hirsch , Friedrich Eberle and others Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Texts on the materialistic conception of history by Ludwig Feuerbach , Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels . (= Ullstein books. No. 3145). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-548-03145-5 .
  • with Manfred Buhr, Manfred Hahn and others: Theoretical sources of scientific socialism. Studies in classical English economics, early socialism and communism and classical bourgeois philosophy . (= Fischer Athenaeum pocket books. 4062). Athenäum-Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-8072-4062-4 .
  • with Reinhold Zech: Karl Marx: Production forces and production relations. Origin, function and change of a theorem of the materialistic conception of history. (= Ullstein book. 35161). Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-35161-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arne Hilke (ed.): ... because he had many goods: working aids on business ethics for communities, schools and adult education. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4631-1 , p. 330 (online)
  2. ↑ Helmut Reichelt. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Institute for Sociology, University of Bremen.
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Borås , Sweden