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Helmut Reichelt (born 1939, in
Borås
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) is a German
Marxian critic of political economy,
sociologist and
philosopher
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. Reichelt is one of the main authors of the “
Neue Marx-Lektüre
(German for "New Reading of Marx") or NML is a revival and interpretation of Karl Marx's critique of political economy, which originated during the mid-1960s in both Western and Eastern Europe and opposed both Marxist–Leninist and social d ...
” (new Marx reading) and considered to be one of the most important theorists in the field of
Marx's theory of value.
He studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt where
Theodor W. Adorno supervised his diploma in 1968. In 1970 Reichelt obtained his Ph.D at the
Institute for Social Research
The Institute for Social Research (german: Institut für Sozialforschung, IfS) is a research organization for sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School and critical theory. Currently a pa ...
. In 1971 he became professor of sociology at the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...
. One year later he was also appointed as the dean of the philosophy department in Frankfurt.
On the initiative of
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Alfred Sohn-Rethel (4 January 1899 – 6 April 1990) was a French-born German Marxian economist and philosopher especially interested in epistemology. His main intellectual achievement was the publication of ''Intellectual and Manual Labour: A C ...
Reichelt accepted the Professorship for social theory at the department of Sociology at the
University of Bremen
The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...
in 1978. He remained in Bremen until his retirement in 2005.
Reichelt's research interests are the theory of society with special emphasis on the problems of the theory of economic value.
Already during his time as a university student he began a long-term cooperation with
Hans-Georg Backhaus
Hans-Georg Backhaus (born 1929) is a German Marxian economist and philosopher. He is considered one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. He began a long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt already from his ...
. Together with Backhaus he considered engaging with economic phenomena and economic theory as fundamental for
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 s ...
. Since 1998 Reichelt and Backhaus contributions have spawned a rich debate on theories of economic value and its relation to critical theory. Reichelt has published widely on Marx, on Adorno's social theory and on economic theory. Reichelt also oversaw an edition of Hegel's Philosophy of Right in the Ullstein Verlag. He is the current chair of the German Marx-Society.
Selected publications
Main work
* Reichelt, Helmut: ''Neue Marx Lektuere - Zur Kritik sozialwissenschaftlicher Logik''. Hamburg 2008.
* Reichelt, Helmut: ''Zur logischen Struktur des Kapitalbegriffs bei Karl Marx''. Freiburg 2001. ()
Further publications
* ''Der Zusammenhang von Werttheorie und ökonomischen Kategorien bei Marx'', 1999
online* ''Die Marxsche Kritik ökonomischer Kategorien. Überlegungen zum Problem der Geltung in der dialektischen Darstellungsmethode im „Kapital“'', 2001
PDF
* ''Einige Fragen und Anmerkungen zu Nadjas „Kritik als Substanz des Denkens bei Kant und Marx.“'', 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
References
Further reading
* Eldred, Michae
Copenhagen: Kurasje, 1984 .
* Kerr, Derek: ''The Politics of Change: Globalisation, Ideology and Critique.''.
* Kirchhoff, Christine / Pahl, Hanno / Engemann, Christoph / Heckel, Judith / Meyer, Lars (eds.): Gesellschaft als Verkehrung. Perspektiven einer neuen Marx-Lektüre. Festschrift für Helmut Reichelt, Freiburg 2004, .
* Kubota, Ken: ''Die dialektische Darstellung des allgemeinen Begriffs des Kapitals im Lichte der Philosophie
Hegels. Zur logischen Analyse der politischen Ökonomie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung
Adornos und der Forschungsergebnisse von
Rubin
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Backhaus, Reichelt,
Uno und
Sekine'
(PDF) in: Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge 2009, pp. 199–224. .
* Kubota, Ken: ''The Dialectical Presentation of the General Notion of Capital in the Light of
Hegel's Philosophy: On the Logical Analysis of Political Economy with Special Consideration of
Adorno and the Research Results of
Rubin
Rubin is both a surname and a given name. Rubins is a Latvian-language form of the name. As a Jewish name, it derives from the biblical name Reuben. The choice is also influenced by the word ''rubin'' meaning "ruby" is some languages. ,
Backhaus, Reichelt,
Uno, and
Sekine'
(PDF) in: Revista Dialectus 9 (2020), no. 18, pp. 39–65. .
* Meyer, Lars: Absoluter Wert und allgemeiner Wille. Zur Selbstbegründung dialektischer Gesellschaftstheorie, Bielefeld 2005, .
* Pahl, Hanno, Lars Meyer: Kognitiver Kapitalismus: Soziologische Beiträge zur Theorie der Wissensökonomie, Marburg 2007,
* Pahl, Hanno: Das Geld in der modernen Wirtschaft. Marx und Luhmann im Vergleich, Frankfurt 2008,
External links
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selected bibliographywith links and materials.
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1939 births
Living people
Marxian economists
Marxist theorists
German economists
German philosophers
German Marxists
German male writers
Marxian critique of political economy
Critics of political economy