Das Argument
The argument - Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences was founded in 1959 as an independent scientific journal of Marxist-oriented West German left. It is published in six issues per year, with the last issue of the year is usually a double issue. Since 2005 the journal is published by the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory; they appear in the argument of publishing. The magazine is a cooperation partner of the internet portal Linksnet.
Origin and form
Emerging is the journal of the protests against the nuclear arming of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was issued from the beginning of Wolfgang Fritz Haug (now emeritus professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin). She began as a collection of stapled sheets together in pamphlet format. In the first ten years of its existence, the magazine expanded its range of topics and twice changed its subtitle. Initially this was "Berlin books for politics and culture ", from November 1963 "Berlin books for problems of society." Since 1969 it is still valid subtitle "Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences ".
Of great importance was the magazine for the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She leaned closely to the Journal for Social Research of the Frankfurt School (in the in the 1930s, the most important essays by thinkers such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse were published and many others); numerous surviving representative of the school dominated the first decade, the image of the argument.
Within the student movement, the argument for his critical and constructive engagement with the DKP and the SEW was known. Articles, the " bourgeois- affirmative " analyzed were rejected. Later, the magazine turned but further from more orthodox Marxist positions. It represents the mid- 1980s a pluralistic Marxism, and is in cooperative relation with the Historical- Critical Dictionary of Marxism and the Prison Notebooks of the Italian political thinker Antonio Gramsci and Marxist.
Numerous writers have been working together with the argument. Earlier this included, inter alia, Christa Wolf, Erich Fried and Peter Weiss. Today the argument, inter alia, works with Elfriede Jelinek and Volker Braun. Since 2005, it appears with different focal editors who draws from a large pool of international scientists. Each issue of the magazine is dedicated to a specific topic and includes an extensive review section.
Topics (2011)
- Marxism - Work and Economy - Women
- Research on fascism Antonio Gramsci - ideology
- Sociology - feminism - Culture
- Politics and Society - Memory Work / memory work
- Literature - Philosophy - (anti) racism
- Critical Medicine - Marx-Engels Research - Critical Psychology
Editing
2013 belong to Editors:
- Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Editor, Philosophy ); Frigga Haug ( editor, Feminism ); Peter Jehle (Editor, Literature )
- Tungsten Adolphi; Ingo Lauggas (Art and Culture ); January Loheit; Ruth May; Jutta Meyer- Siebert; Sissy Müller; Christof ohms ( art criticism ); Sabine Plonz; Bernd Roettger ( economics); Ilse Schütte; Oliver Walkenhorst (ecology ); Alban Werner; Gerhard Zimmer ( pedagogy)
- Review Editors: Ingar Solty (social movements and politics ); Lars Lambrecht and Rainer Schultz ( history); Rainer Alisch (philosophy)
Coordination: Sissy Müller
In the scientific advisory board of the institution sit among others Frank Deppe, Domenico Losurdo, Thomas Sablowski, Thomas Seibert and Kees Van Der Pijl.