Horst Müller (philosopher)

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Horst Müller (2012)

Horst Müller (born September 19, 1945 in Neustadt bei Coburg ) is a German sociologist , social computer scientist and social philosopher .

Life

Müller studied in Nuremberg and Erlangen and was born in 1982 at the University of Erlangen with a doctoral thesis “Practice and Intersubjectivity. Intellectual historical studies from a constitutional perspective " to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1984 to 2010 he developed and maintained the municipal database information system of the City Guide Social Atlas of the City of Nuremberg. From 1985 to 1996 he played a key role in the Ernst Bloch Association .

His “Initiative for Practical Philosophy and Concrete Science” began in 2001. The associated website sees itself as a portal for the European line of thought of a philosophy of practice and provides extensive socially critical study material. In addition to national conferences, Müller organizes a local forum for political philosophy.

Research priorities

Müller's basic theoretical work aims to deepen the dialectical practical thinking in connection with the early writings of Marx , who conceived "Praxis" and "Understanding of Practice" as ontological and epistemological basic categories, and to deepen and epistemologically the practical theoretical approach of George Herbert Mead in terms of constitution and epistemology to bring to bear as a paradigm of a socially analytically efficient, "concrete" practice philosophy . The key term “contradicting practice” contains an objection to the communication- and subjectivity- oriented social theory and at the same time is intended to help reactivate the repressed legacy of dialectics . In contrast to critical theory , but also to capital and crisis theory, the practice concept requires a transgression of traditional modes of criticism in the sense of a "utopianism of political economy and social practice" .

The approach to this is sought in an expanded modeling of economic practice that goes beyond Marx's reproduction schemes. This also includes state finances, the problem of the “indebted tax state”, which Rudolf Goldscheid referred to, and the extensive area of ​​public, social and cultural services. Müller, professionally in the field of urban research, was intensively involved with this. The analytics and the theoretical value concept of a “social economy as a system alternative” can be assigned to the field of a social economy . The whole design is intended to establish a possible social transformation . This idea is connected with the situation definition of the world system theory, according to which a historical transition period has opened with the crises at the beginning of the 21st century.

Fonts

Monographs

  • “Practice and Intersubjectivity. Investigations in the history of ideas from a constitutional perspective ” . Nürnberg-Erlangen: University dissertation , 1982. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-107224
  • “Practice and Hope. Studies on the philosophy and science of social practice from Marx to Bloch and Lefebvre ” . Bochum: Germinal, 1986
  • “From Marxism to Concrete Practice Philosophy” . Berlin: Helle Panke, 2008
  • The PRAXIS concept in the 21st century. Karl Marx and the practical thinkers, the practical concept in the transition period and the latently existing system alternative. Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7386-4684-9 .

editor

  • The PRAXIS concept at the center of socially critical science. Contributions and sources of a conference. BoD-Verlag, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3737-5
  • The transition society of the 21st century. Criticism, analytics, alternatives. Contributions and sources of a conference. BoD-Verlag, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-9769-8
  • From criticism of the system to social transformation. Contributions to the PRAXIS conference 2010. BoD-Verlag, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-8822-4

items

  • Marx, Mead and the Concept of Conflicting Practice. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS), Volume 12, Issue 2, April 1983. pp. 119–138.
  • Critical Theory and Revolutionary Humanism. In: Universitas, Journal for Science, Art and Literature, No. 477, February 1986, pp. 153-163
  • The state quota and transformation tendencies in economy and society. In: UTOPIE Kreativ No. 132, October 2001, pp. 909-924.
  • Karl Marx, Marxism and the Philosophy of Practice. On the re-conceptualization of political philosophy. In: Enlightenment and Criticism, special issue 10/2005, pp. 179–193
  • The arc of Feuerbach, Marx, Bloch, Bourdieu. Realism and modernity of practical thinking. In: Weigand Karlheinz (Ed.): Bloch-Almanach. Periodical of the Ernst Bloch Archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Volume 24/2005, Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen-Talheim 2005, pp. 9–28
  • Social economy as a system alternative. In: Horst Müller (ed.), The PRAXIS concept in the center of socially critical science. Norderstedt 2005, pp. 254-289
  • The barriers of the capital economy and the question of the concrete alternative. In: Zeitschrift Sozialismus, Issue 2/2007, pp. 49–56
  • Transformation processes in socio-economic practice and the outline of a system alternative. In: Zeitschrift Argument, Issue 47, Munich 2008, pp. 89-104
  • Karl Marx and Immanuel Wallerstein. Utopian analyzes of the crises and alternatives of the 21st century. In: Immanuel Wallerstein / Horst Müller, System crisis: And what now? Utopian analyzes. Supplement to the journal Socialism 4/2010. ISBN 978-3-89965-956-6
  • On the critical and utopian scientific conception of practical thinking. In: Horst Müller (Ed.), From system criticism to social transformation. Norderstedt 2010, pp. 79-126.
  • On the foundation of value and reproduction theory and the transformation to an economy of the community. In: Horst Müller (Ed.), From system criticism to social transformation. Norderstedt 2010, pp. 157-228.
  • Social Capitalism and System Transformation. In: Berliner Debatte Initial 23 (2012) No. 3, pp. 77–93.
  • On the further development of Marxism as dialectical practical science in the 21st century. In: Novkovic, Dominik / Akel, Alexander (Hrsg.): Karl Marx - Philosophy, Pedagogy, Social Theory and Politics. Topicality and perspectives of Marx's philosophy of practice. Kassel Philosophical Writings - New Volume 8. kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2018, pp. 251–281. ISBN 978-3-7376-5069-4
  • Social infrastructures and a capital (transfer) tax are the keys to system transformation. Contribution to the PRAXIS discussion, issue 3 2019. Nuremberg 2019.
  • The spirit of matter, the dialectic of practice and the revolution. Contribution to the PRAXIS discussion, issue 2 2020. Nuremberg 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zfs-online.org/index.php/zfs/article/view/2493/2030
  2. ↑ http://www.rosalux.de/publication/16154/die-staatsquote-und-transformationstendenzen-in-wirtschaft-und-gesellschaft.html
  3. ↑ http://www.praxisphilosophie.de/mueller_berlinerdebatte_2012-3.pdf
  4. ↑ '' Kasseler Philosophische Schriften NF8 '' website of the University of Kassel. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ https://www.praxisphilosophie.de/infrastructureen_kapitaltransfersteuer_und_systemtransformation.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.praxisphilosophie.de/der_geist_der_materie_und_die_dialektik_der_praxis.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, social computer scientist and social philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt near Coburg