Ingo Elbe

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Ingo Elbe (* 1972 in Dortmund ) is a philosopher and social scientist .

Life

Ingo Elbe studied philosophy , history and social psychology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and received his doctorate in 2008 from the Free University of Berlin on Marx's reception in the Federal Republic. From 2007 to 2012 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig and from 2011 to 2014 at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . In 2015 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg with a thesis on paradigms of anonymous rule. Elbe was visiting professor at the Institute for Political Science at JLU Giessen in the 2017/18 winter semester . He is a private lecturer and research associate at the Institute for Philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg and chairman of the Bochum-based non-profit association Institute for Social Theory .

Elbe was at times co-editor of the Oldenburg Yearbook for Philosophy and is currently co-editor of the journal for critical social theory and philosophy as well as co-operator of the Rote-Ruhr-Uni working group , which was founded in 1995 and which, among other things, organizes lecture series, reading groups and an annual congress at the Ruhr University in Bochum makes an extensive collection of social science texts accessible on its website.

Focus and positions

The Elbe's main research areas include Marx and Marx Reception, Critical Theory , Political Philosophy, and Legal and Social Philosophy .

In his work he rejects the traditional conceptions of Marxism , which are based on a logical-historical interpretation of Marx's theory presentation. He endeavors to critically reconstruct the new Marx reading , which has arisen especially in the Federal Republic of Germany since the mid-1960s, and its analysis of abstract social forms such as work , value , money , state and capital .

As early as 2000, he examined the basic lines of a theory of political public in the work of Jürgen Habermas , especially in his study facticity and validity . At the Habermas and Historical Materialism Congress, which took place in Wuppertal in March 2012 , Elbe presented a fundamental criticism of Habermas' reception of Marx and social theory, which, however, was sharply criticized by Habermas himself and other conference participants.

His dissertation, Marx in the West , published in 2008, deals with the “main features of the debate about an adequate understanding of the subject and methods of Marx's economic criticism and its implications for the theory of the state and revolutionary theory”. In doing so, he would like “the discussion of the fundamental questions of the first chapters of Capital and the related themes of other Marxian works on the critique of political economy ”with regard to the“ concept of form and its appropriate knowledge ”. Under the aspect of a theory of state and revolution, he is interested in "the scientific resources of Marx's texts for recording the specifically capitalist organizational form of public rule monopoly of violence and the possibility of its revolutionary questioning".

In his more recent publications he endeavored to make the new Marx reading fruitful for a critique of the bourgeois models of legitimation of private property, law and the state. He has also initiated several debates within the anti-German left and in some cases formulated considerable criticism of their positions. For example, he criticized the irrationalist interpretations of Marx by Joachim Bruhn and other interpreters and presented a deliberate criticism of Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of anti-Semitism, which was taken as an impetus for a discussion on the relationship between free will and social structures.

His latest book Paradigms anonymous Herrschaft (a collection of revised, published and previously unpublished essays) deals with “the specifics of capitalist property and rule relationships in dealing with positions of modern contractualism, the anti-liberal political philosophy of the 20th century and critical theory”. According to Elbe, “it becomes clear how central the topos of anonymous rule is in these approaches, which either critically or affirmatively declare the rule of the law, the norm, the thing or the nobody as typical of modernity. At the same time, the question is asked what status personal, unmediated rule has in state-regulated capitalism and what potential this creates for refugee movements into authoritarian or fascist conditions. "Elbe means on the one hand that these approaches all develop a concept of impersonal rule, but this concept often the real one Object of anonymous rule in capitalism ideologically wrong. His particular criticism relates to the so-called “political existentialist” positions of Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt. In his most recent publications, Elbe increasingly criticizes postmodern or post-Marxist approaches, such as that of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, and their (left-) populist political concepts. He advocates the thesis that, despite all the differences, they form a “cross-front” with fascist positions on a socio-theoretical level. He was heavily criticized for this in the magazine "Sezession".

Elbe is currently doing research on the issues of politics of the past and anti-Semitism in the left and in anti-racist contexts. He accuses the "hegemonic tendency" of postmodern anti-racism to represent anti-Israel positions and "inadmissibly extend the knowledge of anti-racism valid for certain contexts to qualitatively different issues, to use theoretical concepts in stereotypes and stereotyping without checking empirical content, a culturally relativistic and To base the conception of power reductionist knowledge and to let the description of reality be guided by political resentment or popular educational intentions. " In the debate about the Cameroonian post-colonial theorist Achille Mbembe, Elbe not only attests to this, but to "prominent representatives of the subject" of post-colonial studies, a "systematic connection between the conceptual leveling of the specifics of anti-Semitism, the relativization of the Shoah and a demonization of Israel."

His texts have so far been translated into English, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Persian and Polish.

Publications (selection)

Books and editorships

Essays

  • "It's not systemic". Anti-Semitism in Academic Anti-Racism. In: Till Amelung (Ed.): Irrwege. Analyzes of current queer politics, Berlin 2020.
  • The Anguish of Freedom. Is Sartre's existentialism an appropriate foundation for a theory of antisemitism? In: Antisemitism Studies Vol. 4, No. 1/2020
  • The postmodern transverse front. Notes on Chantal Mouffe's concept of the political. In: sans phrase . Journal for Ideology Criticism, issue 12, spring 2018.
  • Contractualism. In: Samuel Salzborn (Hrsg.): Handbuch Politische Ideengeschichte. Approaches - Methods - Currents, Stuttgart 2018.
  • Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx. In: In: B. Best / W. Bonefeld / C. O'Kane / N. Larsen (eds.): Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Volume I: KeyTexts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society, London 2018.
  • "The cleaning makes us free." Karl Jaspers' contribution to the creation of the national guilt community through acceptance of the concept of collective guilt. In: sans phrase. Journal for Ideology Criticism, issue 11, autumn 2017.
  • Political power, fascism, and ideology. Ernesto Laclaus confrontation with Nicos Poulantzas. In: A. Hetzel (ed.): Radical Democracy. On the understanding of the state of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau. Nomos publishing house. Baden-Baden 2017.
  • Il concetto di reificazione nella critica dell'economia politica di Marx. In: Pietro Garofalo / Michael Quante (eds.): Spettro é Tornato! Attualitá di Marx. Mimesis. Milano 2017.
  • Trabalho alienado e abstrato. Níveis de significação e déficits de fundamentação do conceito de trabalho alienado nos Manuscritos econômicos-filosóficos de Marx. In: Karl Marx, Manuscritos econômico-filosóficos 1844. Editora Martin Claret 2017.
  • Habermas's Critique of the Production Paradigm. In: Gabriel Ricci (ed.): The Persistence of Critical Theory, vol. 8 of Culture & Civilization. Transaction Publisher, New Brunswick.
  • Public life. On Hannah Arendt's theory of economic growth. In: Journal for Critical Social Theory and Philosophy, Volume 2 / Issue 2/2015 (with Sven Ellmers).
  • Habermas' critique of the production paradigm. In: Habermas and historical materialism. Freiburg 2014.
  • The purpose of the political. Carl Schmitt's fascist concept of serious existence. In: Morals and Violence. A discussion of the dialectic of liberation. Münster 2014.
  • New Marx reading. In: Marx Handbook. Stuttgart 2015. (volume in preparation)
  • Drive economy of destruction. Critical theory about the emotional matrix of the extermination of the Jews. In: Critical Theory and Emancipation. Wuerzburg 2014.
  • Alienated and abstract work. Marx's economic-philosophical manuscripts compared to his later critique of political economy . In: Oldenburg Yearbook for Philosophy 2012, Oldenburg 2014.
  • John Locke: Two Treatises Of Government. In: Classics of the Social Sciences. 100 key works in portrait. Wiesbaden 2014.
  • State of capitalists or state of capital? Lines of reception for Engels' concept of the state in the 20th century. In: '… to the Museum of Antiquities'. State theory and criticism of the state in Friedrich Engels, Baden-Baden 2012.
  • The 'rule of norm' between validity and violence. Property, law and the state in the pure legal theory of Hans Kelsen . In: Anonymous rule - On the structure of modern power relations, Münster 2012.
  • Fear of freedom. Is Sartre's existentialism a suitable basis for anti-Semitism theory? . In: Prodomo. Journal on our own behalf, No. 14/2010.
  • From owner to property. Natural law, social contract and state in the thought of John Locke. In: Oldenburg Yearbook for Philosophy 2010. Oldenburg 2011.
  • "Man is an animal that ... needs a master". On the tension between practical reason, property and state power in Immanuel Kant's legal philosophy. In: Critique of Political Philosophy. Munster 2010.
  • Social form and history. The subject of capital from the perspective of recent Marx readings. In: German Journal for Philosophy, 58 / Issue 2 2010.
  • The price of freedom. Thomas Hobbes' political philosophy between the power theory of law and the legal theory of power. In: Property - Social Contract - State. Constellations of reasons for modernity, Münster 2009.
  • Legal form and production relationships. Notes on a blind spot in social theory by Nicos Poulantzas. In: Philosophizing among others. Contributions to the palaver of humanity. Münster 2008.
  • Moments of upheaval in old society. Revolutionary theory and its criticism in Marx. In: Theory as Critique. Freiburg 2008.
  • Marxism-mysticism - or: the transformation of Marx's theory into German ideology. In: Scientific communications of the Berlin Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition, Issue 6: Social practice and its scientific presentation. Contributions to the 'Capital' discussion 2008.
  • Peculiar logic of a peculiar object? For the discussion about the specifics of dialectical representation in Marx's economic criticism. In: Criticism with method? Research methods and social criticism. Berlin 2008.
  • Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms. Readings of Marx's theory. In: Reread Capital. Contributions to radical philosophy. Munster 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Paradigms of Anonymous Rule. Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Arendt, Würzburg 2015, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Dr. Ingo Elbe - Biographical Data. University of Oldenburg ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Ingo Elbe: Discourses do not rule .
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 27, 2012, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Micha Brumlik : Setting up in the uncomfortable , Die Tageszeitung from March 26, 2012.
  6. ^ Peter Leusch: Criticism of Capitalism in Discussion , Deutschlandfunk, March 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ Smail Rapic (ed.): Habermas and historical materialism, Freiburg / Munich 2014, pp. 151–153, 219–228.
  8. ^ Ingo Elbe: Marx im Westen, Munich 2008, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Ibid.
  10. ↑ Ibid.
  11. ↑ Ibid., P. 9.
  12. ↑ Ingo Elbe: Marxismus-Mystizismus, in: Gesellschaftliche Praxis and their scientific presentation, Hamburg 2008, p. 193ff.
  13. ↑ Ingo Elbe: Fear of Freedom, Prodomo No. 14, p. 46ff.
  14. ^ Editing of Prodomo: The trap of nominalism, Prodomo No. 17, p. 56.
  15. ↑ Cf. also Ingo Elbe: "the evil that was not committed by anyone". Hannah Arendt's concept of the “rule of nobody” lecture as an audio file.
  16. ↑ See also Ingo Elbe: The purpose of the political. Carl Schmitt's fascist concept of serious existence .
  17. ↑ Cf. Ingo Elbe: The postmodern transverse front. Notes on Chantal Mouffe's theory of the political .
  18. ↑ Cf. Ingo Elbe: Political Power, Fascism and Ideology. Ernesto Laclaus confrontation with Nicos Poulantzas .
  19. ↑ Cf. Benedikt Kaiser: Querfrontpotential? Populism at Mouffe and Laclau. In: Secession No. 79, August 2017 p. 26ff.
  20. ↑ See FAZ, Student Conference: “Widersprecht your Professoren” [1] .
  21. ↑ Ingo Elbe, "It's not systemic". Anti-Semitism in Academic Anti-Racism. In: Till Amelung (Ed.): Irrwege. Analyzes of current queer politics, Berlin 2020, p. 250
  22. ↑ Ingo Elbe, The postcolonial template. In: taz, May 14, 2020
  23. ↑ Review on literaturkritik.de: Dominion without a name and a face .

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personal data
SURNAME Elbe, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund