Stephan Grigat (political scientist)

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Stephan Grigat (* 1971 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist and journalist . In 2007 he was a co-founder and is still the scientific director of the Stop the Bomb campaign in Austria .

Career

Grigat studied political science , history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna from 1991 to 1997 . From 2000 to 2003 he was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. In 2006 he did his doctorate on the reception of Marx's concept of fetish and the criticism of anti-Semitism at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin under Wolf-Dieter Narr and Eva Kreisky . From 2004 to 2006 Grigat u. a. as a research fellow in Tel Aviv . His research focuses on Marxist and critical theory , the history of left movements, anti-Semitism, the Middle East conflict and Iran .

In recent years he has been a lecturer at the Institute for Jewish Studies , at the Institute for Political Science and at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna and at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz . In 2015/2016 Grigat was visiting professor for critical social theory at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , in 2016/2017 he was visiting professor for Israel Studies at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam / Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg , 2017/2018 he was a Research & Teaching Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Since 2017 he has been a Permanent Fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and a Research Fellow at the Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism and History at the University of Haifa . In 2019 he is lecturer in political science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , from October 2019 lecturer in political science at the University of Passau .

Until 2008 he was involved in events and activities of the ideology-critical group Café Critique .

Grigat works as a freelance writer for Jungle World and Konkret, among others . He has guest posts and a. published in Tagesspiegel , Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau , taz , Cicero Online , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Basler Zeitung , Der Standard , Die Presse , Salzburger Nachrichten and Wiener Zeitung .

At the center of Grigat's interest is the issue of anti-Semitism and its relationship to the tradition of the left and Islam . Philosophically, Grigat sees himself in the tradition of Marx and critical theory , which he sees as opposed to traditional Marxism and the left mainstream. Other important authors for him are Oscar Wilde , Johannes Agnoli , Moishe Postone and Guy Debord .

Positions

Criticism of the traditional left

As a central point of criticism of the traditional left , Grigat formulates the accusation of anti-Semitism , which can be traced back to the early socialists . In the early writings of Karl Marx and letters by Marx and Engels , too, there are formulations and arguments that fall back on anti-Semitic clichés. Marx's early criticism of capitalism still lacked the sharpness of terms that counteracted resentment in his later criticism of political economy .

In the European labor movement , anti-Semitism was repeatedly denied, played down or in the worst cases - as consistent anti-capitalism - openly propagated. The Stalinist campaigns against Zionism and cosmopolitanism can be seen as the most radical form of left anti-Semitism . The October Revolution led by Lenin initially brought the Russian Jews numerous advantages compared to the times of the Tsar. From Stalin but had been already used in the fight for Lenin's successor Semitism as a means; later he changed from a tactical to a staunch anti-Semite, who at the end of his life considered a violent resettlement of the Soviet Jews. After the Second World War , the Soviet Union supported the project to found the Israeli state for a short time. However, by the end of the 1940s at the latest, anti-Zionism became the official state doctrine.

In Western Europe, anti-Semitism on the left after World War II expressed itself as anti-Zionism after the Six Day War (1967). This soon spread to large parts of the left and is most evident in the Federal Republic of Germany - "from left social democracy , the Greens and alternatives, feminist groups , K-groups , autonomous and anti-imperialists to the armed groups".

Islamism criticism

Grigat criticizes anti-Semitism as an essential part of Islamist ideology. From his point of view, the greatest anti-Semitic threat is currently the Iranian regime, for whose boycott he is emphatically advocating. He is co-founder of the Stop the Bomb campaign , which warns of Iran's nuclear armament plans and calls on German and Austrian companies to cease their business relationships with the state. He particularly criticizes OMV's planned billion- dollar deal with Iran, which in his view would "make Austria a long-term strategic partner of the mullahs' regime in Tehran".

Works

Monographs

  • Fetish and freedom. About the reception of Marx's fetish criticism, the emancipation of state and capital and the criticism of anti-Semitism . Ça Ira, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 3-924627-89-4 ( information from the publisher ).
  • The loneliness of Israel. Zionism, the Israeli Left, and the Iranian Threat . Konkret, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930786-73-2 .

Editorships

Contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grigat, Stephan | Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. In: www.zentrum-juedische-studien.de. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ STOP THE BOMB welcomes new Iran sanctions , Stop the Bomb Campaign, November 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Oberbank supports the Ayatollahs , Stop the Bomb Campaign, September 7, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c page at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna
  5. ↑ Fetish and Freedom. About the reception of Marx's fetish criticism, the emancipation of state and capital and the criticism of anti-Semitism.
  6. ^ Café Critique
  7. ^ TAZ blog by Wolfgang Koch
  8. ↑ Home: Letter from Berlin: The anti-anti-Zionists. In: Haaretz.com. August 3, 2007. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Stephan Grigat: Liberated Society and Israel. On the relationship between critical theory and Israel , in: Stephan Grigat (Ed.): Enlightenment and re-education. Critical theory against post-Nazism and Islamism . Freiburg: ça ira-Verlag 2006, pp. 115–129 (pdf; 85 kB)
  10. ↑ Stephan Grigat: [1]
  11. ^ Stephan Grigat: Agnoli's Critique of Politics. The misery of political science and the state fetish in Marxist theory
  12. ↑ Stephan Grigat: Moishe Postone's interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy
  13. ↑ Stephan Grigat: The fetish in the spectacle. On Guy Debord's social criticism . In: Jungle World , 20/2001
  14. ↑ On the subject of “Anti-Semitism in the Left” cf. z. B. Stephan Grigat: Liberated Society and Israel. On the relationship between critical theory and Israel , in: Stephan Grigat (Ed.): Enlightenment and re-education. Critical theory against post-Nazism and Islamism . Freiburg: ça ira-Verlag 2006, pp. 115–129 (pdf; 85 kB)
  15. ↑ a b Stephan Grigat: Left and against Jews? Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in the Austrian Left . In: tribune , issue 169, first quarter 2004
  16. ↑ See Stephan Grigat: Austria as a door opener for the mullahs , In: Die Presse , December 18, 2007
  17. ↑ Contents / Helpless in the face of real problems - review by Micha Brumlik
  18. ↑ Personal website
personal data
SURNAME Grigat, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin