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Alongside the 'critical theory ' of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist current known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school 's history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society -- an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period. This book was first published in 2014 as Marx an die Uni. Die "Marburger Schule" -- Geschichte, Probleme, Akteure by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-38-94-38546-0. With a new Introduction by Ingar Solty.

Der Verfasser gibt einen Überblick über Leben und Werk von Georg Lukács, einem bedeutenden Philosophen und Kulturtheoretiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Expressionismus-Auffassung, die Theorie des literarischen Realismus und die große Ästhetik von Lukács. Berücksichtigt wird auch die Kritik namhafter Schriftsteller und Philosophen wie Bloch, Brecht, Seghers und Adorno an seinem Werk. Dabei spielen die Zusammenhänge zwischen marxistischem Denken, Kultur und politischen Engagement eine wesentliche Rolle.

Der Band versammelt zentrale spätere Beiträge von Lothar Peter zur soziologischen Theorie, zum Marxismus, zur Kritischen Theorie und über Intellektuelle. Die Beiträge sondieren den gesellschaftskritischen Gehalt marxistischer Diskurse, lebensphilosophischer Reflexionen, des Feminismus, der Soziologie Max Webers und Durkheims sowie des Kommunitarismus. Sie beschäftigen sich auch mit Problemen und Aufgaben der Intellektuellen (Bourdieu, Habermas, Beck, Giddens) sowie den Perspektiven einer gesellschaftskritischen Soziologie heute.

Alongside the ‘critical theory’ of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist current known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school’s history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society – an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period. This book was first published in 2014 as Marx an die Uni. Die "Marburger Schule" – Geschichte, Probleme, Akteure by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-38-94-38546-0. With a new Introduction by Ingar Solty.