Helmut Reichelt

Helmut Reichelt (* 1939 in Borås, Sweden ) is a German economist and sociologist. His sociological root lies in the critical theory and he is one of the key authors of the new reading of Marx. His research field is the Marxian theory of value.

Professional career

Helmut Reichelt was in 1959 at the Alexander -von- Humboldt -Gymnasium in Konstanz a high school. He then studied three semesters at the University of Freiburg. He then studied at the University of Frankfurt sociology among others, Theodor Adorno, in which he received his diploma as a degree in sociology in 1968. Already in his student years began a long association with Hans -Georg Backhaus.

After graduating Reichelt was at the Institute for Social Research Assistant of the political scientist Iring Fetscherplatz. In 1970, he was with the work for the logical structure of the capital concept in Karl Marx Dr.rer.pol. doctorate. Reichelt in 1971 professor at the University of Frankfurt in 1978 at the initiative of Alfred Sohn -Rethel, the call to the chair of Sociological Theory at the University of Bremen, where he taught until 2005. The chair was focused on " science and social theory with special consideration of the dialectic in the Critique of Political Economy " active. Reichelt is - with a break - Chairman of Marx Society since its inception in October 1994.

Publications (selection )

Major works

• For the logical structure of the capital concept in Karl Marx. At the same time: Dissertation on 10 July 1968 the Economic and Social Science, University of Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, 1968, 265 pp.; 4, durchges. Edition, with a foreword by Iring Fetscherplatz. European publishing house, Frankfurt 1973 ( Political Economy History and criticism. ) ISBN 3-434-45027-0; Freiburg im Breisgau: Ça Ira, 2001, 285 pp., ISBN 3-924627-76-2 ( blurb ).
• New reading of Marx. For a critique of social science logic, VSA -Verlag, Hamburg 2008, 384 pp.; Freiburg im Breisgau: Ça Ira; , 2013, 480 pp., ISBN 978-3-86259-116-9. ( Blurb )

Other Publications

• The relationship of theory of value and economic categories in Marx, 1999.
• Marx's critique of economic categories. Considerations on the problem of validity in the dialectical method of presentation in the " capital ", Fall 2001 (PDF).
• Marx's Critique of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right, 2003. (PDF)
• Some questions and comments to Nadia's " criticism as a matter of thinking in Kant and Marx. " Spring 2005 (PDF).
• Marx 's Critique of Economic Categories: Reflections on the Problem of Validity in the Dialectical Method of Presentation in Capital, in: Historical Materialism, Volume 15, Number 4, 2007, pp. 3-52 (50). (abstract )
• For the constitution of economic objectivity: Value, money and capital under retaliatory theoretical aspect, in 2010 (from: Werner Bonefeld, Michael Heinrich ( ed.). Principal and criticism Under the new reading of Marx ) (PDF)

Editions

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Or, natural law and political science in the floorplans. With Hegel's handwritten notes in his personal copy and the oral supplements. Edited by: Helmut Reichelt. Frankfurt / M.; Berlin; Vienna: Ullsteinhaus 1972, 826 pp., ISBN 3-548-02929-9 ( Ullsteinhaus Books, No. 2929 )
• Hans -Georg Backhaus et al (eds): Society. Contributions to Marxist theory, Part 1 With contributions by Helmut Reichelt, Claudia von Braunmühl, Joachim Hirsch, Friedrich Eberle, among other things, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1974, 246 pp. ( Edition Suhrkamp; 695 )
• Texts materialist conception of history of Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels. Edited and introduced by Helmut Reichelt. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Vienna: Ullsteinhaus, 1975, 616 pp.; ISBN 3-548-03145-5 ( Ullsteinhaus Books, No. 3145 )
• Manfred Buhr; Manfred Hahn; Helmut Reichelt; include: Theoretical sources of scientific socialism. Studies of classical English political economy, early socialism and communism and the classical bourgeois philosophy. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Atheneum Publishers, 1975, 308 S, ISBN 3-8072-4062-4 ( Fischer Atheneum paperbacks; 4062: Social Sciences. )
• Karl Marx: the productive forces and relations of production. Formation, function and transformation of a theorem of materialist conception of history. Edited by Helmut Reichelt and Reinhold Zech. Frankfurt; Berlin; Vienna: Ullsteinhaus 1983, 347 pp., ISBN 3-548-35161-1 ( = Ullstein 35161 )