''Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus'' (HKWM) (in English: ''Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism'') is a major international German-language
encyclopedia
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of
Marxism
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
. It is published by the
Berlin Institute of Critical Theory
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(InkriT), Germany. The editor-in-chief is
Wolfgang Fritz Haug
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Wolfgang Fritz Haug (born March 23, 1936 in Esslingen am Neckar, Württemberg) was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin, where he had also studied romance languages and religious ...
. The work is planned to be published in 15 volumes. The first volume was published in 1994; in 2015 was vol. 8/II published and in March 2018 Band 9/I is to be published. The work is also available in electronic form and each article may be ordered separately as a pdf-file for immediately delivery.
Publishing plan
* Vol. 1: Abbau des Staates – Avantgarde (1994)
* Vol. 2: Bank – Dummheit in der Musik (1995)
* Vol. 3: Ebene – Extremismus (1997)
* Vol. 4: Fabel – Gegenmacht (1999)
* Vol. 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit – Hegemonialapparat (2001)
* Vol. 6/I: Hegemonie – Imperialismus (2004)
* Vol. 6/II: Imperium – Justiz (2004)
* Vol. 7/I: Kaderpartei – Klonen (2008)
* Vol. 7/II: Knechtschaft – Krise des Marxismus (2010)
* Vol. 8/I: Krisentheorie – Linie Luxemburg/Gramsci (2012)
* Vol. 8/II: links/rechts – Maschinenstürmer (2015)
* Vol. 9/I: Maschinerie bis Mitbestimmung (March 2018)
* Vol. 9/II: Mitleid – naturwüchsig
* Band 10: Negation der Negation – Phantasie
* Band 11: Philosophie – Regulationsthoerie
* Band 12: Reichtum – Sorelismus
* Band 13: Sowjet – Text
* Band 14: Theater –
verstehen
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/erklären
* Band 15: Versuch – Zynismus
See also
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Critical theory
A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from soci ...
External links
* English entries: https://web.archive.org/web/20120425225853/http://www.inkrit.org/hkwm-int/index-EN.htm
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