Roger Behrens

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Roger Behrens (* 1967 ) is a publicist , author and journalist and deals with a critical theory of society as well as with the philosophy and aesthetics of modernity and postmodernism . He is a research assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg .

Life

Behrens studied philosophy and social sciences at the universities of Hamburg , Berkeley , Kassel and Maastricht . In Berkeley, Behrens attended Martin Jay's lectures . In Kassel he heard Ulrich Sonnemann . In Hamburg and Maastricht, Behrens studied primarily with Heinz Paetzold .

Roger Behrens is co-editor of the book magazine Testcard, published by Valve Verlag in Mainz . Contributions to pop history . He is a member of the editorial board of the journal for critical theory , which is edited by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser and Sven Kramer . Behrens writes regularly for the left-wing political weekly Jungle World and the monthly Konkret, among others . He also publishes articles in the webzine beatpunk.org , in phase 2 - magazine against reality and, since the late 1980s, in contradiction - Munich magazine for philosophy . Behrens works in Hamburg for the Freie Sender Kombinat (FSK), a free radio station .

In 2009, Roger Behrens founded the Katzenberg publishing house in Hamburg in the legal form of a sole proprietorship. In the publisher run by the owner, for example, documentations on the relationship between art, politics and radical social criticism appear under the title Art, Spectacle and Revolution .

position

Roger Behrens deals with the development of culture in civil society from the 18th century to the present. At the center of his analyzes is a critical theory of pop culture in the age of global capitalism .

Behrens interprets pop culture as the abolition of the culture industry described by Adorno and Horkheimer in the Dialectic of Enlightenment : Pop is the possibility of a democratic expression for an aestheticization of politics in the sense of Walter Benjamin's work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility . In this respect, Behrens analyzes pop as a concrete and practiced ideology of capitalist societies in the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism .

The culture industry (in the first half of the 20th century) turned culture into a commodity. With pop (second half of the 20th century) the commodity itself became a culture. In his analyzes, Behrens mainly refers to Herbert Marcuse , Guy Debord , and Peter Brückner . Additional sources for Behrens are the writings of Daniel J. Boorstins and Edward Bernays , a nephew of Sigmund Freud .

As a result of his analyzes, Behrens turns against increasing pop nationalism - especially in Germany - by participating in the I Can't Relax initiative in Germany.

Award

Publications

Monographs

  • Postmodern. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-434-46237-6 .
  • Culture industry. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-246-5 .
  • Fall silent. About Adorno. Wehrhahn, Laatzen / Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-932324-80-3 .
  • Crisis and illusion. Contributions to the critical theory of mass culture (aesthetics and cultural philosophy). Lit-Verlag, Münster and Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6423-5 .
  • The dictatorship of the conformist. Texts on the critical theory of pop culture. Transcript, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89942-115-9 .
  • Adorno ABC. Reclam, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-379-20064-6 .
  • Critical theory. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-46114-0 .
  • Translations - Concrete Philosophy, Practice and Critical Theory (Studies on Herbert Marcuse). Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-930559-58-7 .
  • Sound sounded violence. Texts on music, society and subculture. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-930559-46-3 .
  • The non-simultaneity of real humanism. Consequences, experiments and assemblies in critical theory. Junghans, Dartford / Cuxhaven 1996, ISBN 3-926848-54-5 .
  • Pop culture industry. On the philosophy of popular music. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1177-5 .

Editorships

  • With Kai Kresse and Ronnie M. Peplow: A symbolic stroll. Cultural-philosophical forays. Festschrift for Heinz Paetzold for the 60th Wehrhahn, Laatzen / Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-932324-56-0 .

literature

  • Christophjacket: media (sub) culture. Stories - Discourses - Drafts . Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-275-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Marcuse: Drive structure and society.
  2. ↑ Herbert Marcuse: The one-dimensional man.
  3. ↑ Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle.
  4. ↑ Peter Brückner: Social Psychology of Capitalism.
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967