Wolfgang Fritz Haug

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Wolfgang Fritz Haug (born March 23, 1936 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German Marxist philosopher and publisher . He is married to the sociologist Frigga Haug .

Life

From 1955 to 1963, Haug studied philosophy, Romance studies and religious studies in Tübingen, Montpellier, Berlin and Perugia. In 1966 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin ; the title of the dissertation was Jean-Paul Sartre and the construction of the absurd . 1972 followed the habilitation ; from 1979 to 2001 he was professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . His research focus is Marxism . In 1959, Wolfgang Fritz Haug founded Argument Verlag in Berlin , he was also a co-founder of the magazine Das Argument , of which he is the publisher to this day. Haug was also co-editor of the critical complete edition of Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks , which appeared in ten volumes between 1991 and 2002.

In 1980 Haug co-founded the Berlin Volksuniversität . From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the international advisory board of Socialism in the World (Belgrade) and from 1996 to 2001 he was the founding chairman of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory InkriT , of which he has been scientific director since 2001. In addition, Wolfgang Fritz Haug sits on the scientific advisory board of attac . At the party congress of the party Die Linke in 2007, Haug and his wife announced their membership. The University of Roskilde, Denmark, awarded Haug an honorary doctorate in 2013. On this occasion he gave the lecture summarizing his career and his current position as a 'Marxist without Marxism'. Is it easy to be a philosopher in Marxism?

Haug is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

His works include the Critique of Goods Aesthetics (1971), the lecture on Introduction to Capital (1974), Fascism and Ideology (1980) and the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism , which he has been publishing since 1994.

In the early 1970s, Haug coined the term “ goods aesthetics” .

Fonts

  • The helpless anti-fascism , 1967 (Suhrkamp)
  • Critique of the aesthetics of goods. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1971 ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 569 kB)
  • Lectures for an introduction to "Capital" , 1974, 5th edition 1990
  • Fascism and Ideology , 1980 (together with others)
  • "Advertising" and "Consumption" , 1980
  • Self-administration (with Wieland Elfferding ). Berlin 1981. ISBN 3-88619-014-5 .
  • From helpless anti-fascism to the grace of late birth , 1983
  • Pluraler Marxism , Vol. 1 and 2, 1985/87
  • The fascization of the bourgeois subject , 1986/87
  • Gorbachev , 1989/1990
  • The Perestroika Journal , 1990
  • Jean-Paul Sartre and the construction of the absurd , 1991
  • Elements of a theory of the ideological , 1993 (PDF; 114 MB)
  • Determinants of the post-communist situation. Perception experiments (II) , 1993
  • Historical-critical dictionary of Marxism , (in 15 volumes). Previously published: Volume 1 (1994) to Volume 8 / II, 2015 (ongoing).
  • Philosophizing with Brecht and Gramsci , 1996
  • Politically Right or Right Politically , 1999
  • High tech capitalism. Analysis of mode of production, work, sexuality, war and hegemony , 2003
  • Thirteen attempts to renew Marxist thinking followed by explorations on Marx / Lenin / Luxemburg , 2005
  • Philosophizing with Brecht and Gramsci. Extended Edition , 2005
  • Introduction to Marxist Philosophizing , 2006
  • New lectures on the introduction to "Capital" , 2006
  • Is it easy to be a philosopher in Marxism? (the Roskilde Lecture), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4TahxUX434 , print version in Das Argument 304/2013
  • Critique of the aesthetics of goods. Followed by the aesthetics of goods in high-tech capitalism , 2009
  • The cultural distinction , 2011
  • High-tech capitalism in the great crisis , 2012
  • Read “Capital” - but how? Materials , 2013
  • Turn of the century. Werkstatt-Journal 1990 to 2000 , 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Archived from the original on July 13, 2018 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Haug, Wolfgang Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar