Hans-Georg Backhaus

Hans -Georg Backhaus ( born 1929 ) is a German economist and philosopher and one of the leading scientist in the field of Marx's theory of value. Already in his student years began a longstanding collaboration with Helmut Reichelt. Both are considered the founders of the new reading of Marx.

Life

During his studies ( among others, Theodor W. Adorno) in the 60's he began to deal with the Marxian theory of value. Since the 70s he published several essays on Marx's economic critique.

He worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Frankfurt and Bremen, and was at the foundation of the " Marx- colloquium ", out of which 1994, the Marx- Gesellschaft eV was based in Hamburg, in particular.

Work

Monograph

• Dialectic of the value form. Studies on Marx's economic critique, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-924627-52-5.

Contributions ( selection)

• "Materials for the reconstruction of Marx's theory of value. " In: Society. Contributions to Marxist theory 11, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1978, p 16-177
• "What is the concept of value in the economy to conceive? Michael Heinrich: The Science of value "( with Helmut Reichelt ) in: . Contributions to the Marx-Engels- Research, New Series 1995 Hamburg, 1995, pp. 60-94. .
• "On the double meaning of the terms " political economy "and" criticism " in Marx and the Frankfurt School", in: Stefan Dornuf / Reinhard Pitsch (ed.), Wolfgang Harich to memory. A commemorative volume in two volumes, Volume 2, Munich 2000, pp. 12-213.