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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.
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.
Price: $166.00
Pages: 184
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
17 October 2019
ISBN: 9789004349414
Format: Hardcover
“Peter’s Marx on Campus is notable as the first appearance of a book in English dedicated to the Marburg School [...] The aim of the volume is, as Peter puts it, ‘to remedy this circumstance by describing for the reader how the Marburg School helped to keep the critique of capitalism and society alive during a period in (West) German history when such critique earned its proponents more outrage, scorn, and rejection than it did reputation or public recognition’ [...] The book successfully shows the Marburg School to be a genuine ‘epistemic community’ and provides a useful account of its development, summarizing key works and the career arcs of its major figures."
—Bo Harvey, in: Marx & Philosophy Society, 7 February 2023.
—Bo Harvey, in: Marx & Philosophy Society, 7 February 2023.
Lothar Peter, Prof. Dr. phil. (1942), completed his Ph.D. at the University of Marburg under Wolfgang Abendroth and Heinz Maus. He taught sociology at the University of Bremen until 2005, and has published numerous articles and books on the subject.