Jens Benicke

Jens Benicke (* in Munich ) is a German political scientist and author .

Life

Jens Benicke comes from Munich. He studied political science, modern history and modern German literary history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He joined the Philosophical Faculty under Ingeborg Villinger in 2009 with the dissertation Von Adorno zu Mao. The reception of critical theory and the examination of the National Socialist German past from the anti-authoritarian faction of the student movement to the K groups to Dr. phil. PhD . He works for a science publisher in Freiburg im Breisgau. He also works as a reviewer for the “Rote Ruhr uni” working group at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

He is the author of three books and numerous book chapters; his first work was reviewed several times (including by the taz and von grundrisse ) and presented to the public in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (2012).

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Summary

In his book Von Adorno zu Mao , published in 2010, Jens Benicke analyzes the reception of critical theory and also addresses the discussion of the radical political left over National Socialism . The work is essentially divided into four sections:

• Anti-authoritarian student movement
• The protest movement came to a head
• Development towards the K groups
• The decline of the K groups

reception

“In addition to many well-known things, Benicke describes in particular how the K-groups gave free rein to original German resentment whenever they were confronted with the National Socialist past and the critical theory to which the anti-authoritarian movement owed essential insights. If the rebellious students - before the height of their movement, however - had dealt very specifically with the continued effects of the Nazi regime, a formulaic term of fascism was now used with recourse to Georgi Dimitrov, which was tantamount to relieving the German population and trivializing the annihilation of European Jews. "

- Felix Baum : taz

“Benicke's book fills a research gap, as the interaction between critical theory and leftist movement history has so far been investigated primarily for the early phase of the student protest movement. "From Adorno to Mao" is a successful study of the theoretical development of the K-groups - and it is to be welcomed that the author focuses on a relentless criticism of this bizarre section of the history of the left. "

- Hanning : beatpunk.org

“Benicke has made a contribution to the debates about the history of the West German left that is well worth reading. With the focus on critical theory and analysis of fascism, the question remains whether the K groups did not represent emancipatory positions with regard to company work, solidarity with Vietnam and Chile and with “guest workers”, the fight against occupational bans and state repression. Perhaps Benicke overestimated the importance of critical theory for 1968. "

- Anton Pam : floor plans

Fonts (selection)

• From Adorno to Mao : on the bad repeal of the anti-authoritarian movement , ça ira Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-924627-83-6 (dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, 259 pages, 21 cm).
• Authority & Character (= Centaurus Pocket Apps , Volume 20). Centaurus Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-86226-167-3 .
• “From Heidelberg to Mogadishu, a path from revolutionary to counterrevolutionary action”. The relationship of the K groups to the RAF, using the example of the KPD / ML , in: Sebastian Gehrig, Barbara Mittler, Felix Wemheuer (eds.), Kulturrevolution als Modell ? Maoismen in German-speaking countries , pp. 133–152. Peter Lang AG , Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57641-0 .
• The K groups and National Socialism , in: Associazione Delle Talpe, Rosa Luxemburg Initiative Bremen (ed.), Mole work II. Criticism in times of destroyed illusions , pp. 36–50, Berlin 2012, full texts online
• The K groups. Origin - development - decline. Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-24768-3
• All power to the principle! About the theory and perspective of council communism , in: Anna Leder, Mario Memoli, Andreas Pavlic (eds.), The council movement in Austria. From social self-defense to concrete utopia , pp. 80–94. Mandelbaum , Vienna, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978385476-680-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Benicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Benicke at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Jens Benicke, Von Adorno zu Mao , dissertation, 2009.
2. ↑ cf. Jens Benicke, Authority & Character , 2012.
3. ↑ All reviews by Jens Benicke ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , red ruhr uni. 
4. ↑ From Adorno to Mao. On the bad repeal of the anti-authoritarian movement , book presentation, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung RLP, June 28, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Hanning: Jens Benicke "From Adorno to Mao" (review), beatpunk.org, August 12, 2010.
6. ^ Felix Baum: Study on K groups. Great Bizarre Cultural Revolution (review), in: taz , July 24, 2010.
7. ↑ Anton Pam: Jens Benicke: From Adorno to Mao. On the bad repeal of the anti-authoritarian movement (review), in: grundrisse, 2010.