Michael Buckmiller

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Michael Buckmiller (born May 21, 1943 in Halle (Saale) ) is a political scientist .

Career

Michael Buckmiller worked from 1974 to 1976 as a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the Technical University of Hanover , where he obtained his doctorate in 1976 on the subject of "Karl Korsch and the problem of materialistic dialectics". phil. From 1977 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the Technical University of Hanover, where he completed his habilitation before moving to the University of Paderborn as a substitute professor. From 1988 to 1993 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hanover , and in 1989 he was appointed associate professor. In 2008 he retired and has since devoted himself to his own research projects and to the management of the publishing house he founded .

Act

Buckmiller is concerned with the history and theory of the German labor movement . He is editor of the historical-critical complete edition by Karl Korsch and the collected writings by Wolfgang Abendroth .

Buckmiller was a co-founder of the Loccumer Initiative of Critical Scientists , in which he is still active.

Works (selection)

As editor:

  • On the function of the left-wing intellectual - today: in memoriam Peter von Oertzen , Hannover 2009.
  • Biographical handbook on the history of the Communist International: a German-Russian research project, Berlin 2007 (with Klaus Meschkat ).
  • Wolfgang Abendroth - Collected Writings, Vol. 1. 1926 - 1948, Offizin-Verlag, Hanover 2006.
  • Wolfgang Abendroth - Collected Writings, Vol. 2. 1949 - 1955, Offizin-Verlag, Hanover 2008.
  • Wolfgang Abendroth - Collected Writings, Vol. 3. 1956 - 1963, Offizin-Verlag, Hanover 2013.
  • Karl Korsch - Complete Edition, Hanover, 1980ff.
  • with Dietrich Heimann and Joachim Perels (eds.): Judaism and political existence. Seventeen portraits of German-Jewish intellectuals , Offizin-Verlag, Hannover 2000, pp. 327–358, ISBN 3-930345-21-8 .

As an author (monographs):

  • Karl Korsch and the problem of materialist dialectics: historical and theoretical requirements for his first reception of Marx (1909-1923), Soak Verlag, Hannover 1976.

As an author (essays):

  • Marxism as Reality. In: Yearbook of the labor movement. Vol. About Karl Korsch. Ed. By. C. Pozzoli Frankfurt am Main. 1973.
  • " Marxist work week " 1923 and the establishment of the "Institute for Social Research". In: W. van Reijen / G. Schmid-Noerr (ed.), Grand Hotel Abgrund, photo biography of the Frankfurt School , Hamburg, Junius Verlag 1988.
  • The idea of ​​authentic socialism: Die Rätedemokratie, In: J. Seifert / H. Thörmer / K. Wettig (Ed.), Social or Socialist Democracy? Contributions to the history of the left in the Federal Republic, Marburg 1989.
  • Between materialistic dialectics and positive science. In: Lutz Danneberg / Andreas Kamlah / Lothar Schäfer (eds.), Hans Reichenbach and the Berlin group. Braunschweig-Wiesbaden 1994
  • The perspective of social utopias - a historical look ahead. In: F. Heckmann / E. Spoo (ed.), Economy from Below - Self-Help and Cooperation. Heilbronn 1997.
  • Not a ghost: the communist movement in the 20th century. In: E. Spoo / R. Butenschön (ed.), Man and the plan. A century balance of communism. Hamburg 2000.
  • Violence and Emancipation in the Labor Movement. Unfinished business. In: Loccumer Initiative of Critical Scholars (ed.), Violence and civilization in bourgeois society. (= Critical Interventions No. 6). Hanover 2001.
  • Knowledge and transformative practice. In: Hannoversche Schriften. Edited by Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt and Michael Werz, Volume 4: Philosophy and Empiricism. Frankfurt am Main 2001.
  • Dear Götz,… In: Ursula Becker, Heiner M. Becker, Jaap Kloosterman (editor): No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 35-38.
  • Ernst Nolte's 'causal nexus' as a magic formula to dispose of the question of guilt. In: J. Perels (ed.), Right-wing radicalism - a marginal phenomenon? Hanover 2003.
  • The rediscovery of council democracy . Peter von Oertzen's conception of a socialist council democracy and the paradigm shift in evaluating the November revolution . In: Loccumer Initiative Critical Scientists (ed.), On the Function of the Left Intellectual - Today. Hanover 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Buckmiller, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)