Walter G. Neumann

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Walter Gerd Neumann (born October 11, 1947 in Hildesheim near Hanover ) is a German philosopher and social scientist.

Life

He comes from a working-class family and graduated from secondary school. Neumann worked for some time as an administrative intern in the internal administration of Lower Saxony with the regional president in Hildesheim.

He made up his Abitur on the second educational path at the Hessenkolleg Kassel. From 1969 to 1973 he studied at the University of Frankfurt / Main. Neumann was a student of Hans-Jürgen Krahl and was also a member of the Red Cell Sociology. During his studies at the University of Hanover from 1977 to 1982 Neumann was secretary of the Socialist Office and spokesman for the Greens. Then he worked as a library worker. Neumann divorced his wife in 1985 and had no children. He was an adult education center lecturer and received his doctorate in 1986 from the University of Osnabrück .

He then worked as a professor at the University of Hanover in the educational sciences department. As a part-time job, he also worked as a publisher.

From 1982 to 2007 Neumann published 54 books on religion, philosophy, sociology, economy, ecology, feminism, society, history, anthropology, concrete utopia, psychology, natural sciences, Marxian and critical or Krahlian theory and biography. Neumann is referred to by insiders as the successor to Hans-Jürgen Krahl. Today he lives in Hanover as an early retiree. Walter Gerd Neumann is considered to be the founder of a psychoanalytically guided critique of political economy.

Publications

  • 1982: The unconscious Hegel. On the relationship between the science of logic and Marx's critique of political economy. Materialis-Verlag, ISBN 3-88535-034-3
  • 1983: Negative totality. Experiences with Hegel, Marx and Freud. Materialis-Verlag, ISBN 3-88535-072-6
  • 1986: work? No thanks. A criticism of trade unions, the Greens, the women's movement and “leftists” on the subject of work. Materialis-Verlag, ISBN 3-925679-02-2
  • 1986: Revonnah. love and society in 2020. a utopian story. Materialis-Verlag, ISBN 3-925679-00-6
  • 1986: The liberation of lust. Nature, Sexuality and Society at the Marquise de Sade, Materialis-Verlag, ISBN 3-925679-03-0
  • 1989: Nothing teaches thinking. The end of the critical theory of reason. (Diss. 1986) Materialis-Verlag, 138 pp. ISBN 3-88535-122-6
  • 1989: The philosophy of NOTHING in the modern age. To be and not to be in Hebel, Marx, Heidegger and Sartre. pan Blaue Eule-Verlag, ISBN 3-89206-330-3
  • 1990: thinking and being. Emancipation, dialectics, thinking, God, money and post-modernism. Blaue Eule-Verlag, ISBN 3-89206-360-5
  • 1990: Saint Lukacs. History and Class Consciousness Today. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-15-X
  • 1990: Responsum dico. Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus. A critical investigation. Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, ISBN 3-88479-554-6
  • 1993: Critical Theory of Culture Today. Man between revolutionary self-preservation and evolutionary self-realization. Blaue Eule-Verlag, ISBN 3-89206-523-3
  • 1993: Sexuality and Philosophy. On the psychoanalysis of critical thinking. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-27-3
  • 1994: counter-thinking. Practice as a concept of aesthetic appearance. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-29-X
  • 1995: State and Politics. A textbook with texts by Hegel and Marx in comparison. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-30-3
  • 1995: The alienated society. On Hans-Jürgen Krahl's critique of Marx's theory. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-31-1
  • 1996: Negative Materialism, Logic, and Practical Idealism. On the critique of Marx's theory. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-35-4
  • 1996: Marx. Freud. The woman and the money. Economy and love. On the critique of end-capitalist society and knowledge-based education. Anares-Verlag, republication 2014, Ousia-Reading-Circle-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-944570-57-0
  • 1996: Marx - Engels. Topicality and antiquity. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-34-6
  • 1996: Critique of Ruling Reason. The world spirit at the end of the 20th century. A reader. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-38-9
  • 1997: The Commentary I. Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1st book, 1st section: The commodity and the money. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-41-9
  • 1998: Commentary II. Karl Marx. The capital. 1. Book, 2. – 7. Section: The Critique of Political Economy. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-40-0
  • 1998: theory and practice. To the self-abolition of philosophical materialism. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-43-5
  • 1998: Comment III. Karl Marx: method, concept of history, anthropology and concrete utopia. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-42-7
  • 1998: Like a phoenix from the ashes. Attempt an ontology of revolution. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-44-3
  • 2001: Criticism. Truth and Reality of Marxian and Critical Theory. Essays on a practical idealistic philosophy. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-48-6
  • 2004: Social Philosophy. Unpublished papers 1974–94. Vol. I-III. Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-69-9
  • 2007: Revolutionary Action. About the practice of Marxian or critical theory, Anares-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-935716-73-4
  • 2010: Against belief and religion. The Catechism of Atheism, Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-72-9
  • 2010: Marx is out! For a council democracy, Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-73-7
  • 2011: A short autobiography and a testament on science policy . Anares-Verlag, ISBN 3-935716-74-5
  • 2015: The new left and the revolution today. With an afterword by the Hans-Jürgen-Krahl-Institut, Ousia-Reading-Circle-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-944570-59-4

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personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Walter G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Walter Gerd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim , Hanover