Marx on Campus

Lothar Peter, Prof. Dr. phil. (1942), completed his Ph.D. at the University of Marburg under Wolfgang Abendroth and Heinz Maus. He taught sociology at the University of Bremen until 2005, and has published numerous articles and books on the subject.

“Our own intellectual conjuncture — and what separates it from that of both the Frankfurt School and Abendroth — is defined precisely by a distinct lack of Marxist secondary-analytical work on contemporary social problems that the Marburg School does so well to represent, and which Peter shows to be very much present despite difficult ideological circumstances.”—Bo Harvey, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction Ingar Solty 1 Abendroth School or Marburg School? 1What Constitutes a School of Thought? 2Why the 'Marburg School '? 2 First Phase: Gradual Formation, 1950 to the Mid-1960s 1Social and Political Context 2Wolfgang Abendroth (1906--85) 3Students, Doctoral Candidates, Staff 3 Second Phase: Emergence of an 'Epistemic Community ', Mid-1960s to Early 1970s 1Social and Political Context 2Werner Hofmann (1922--69) 3Heinz Maus (1911--78) 4Abendroth, Hofmann, and Maus 's Understanding of Marx and Marxism 5The Marburg and Frankfurt Schools: 'Social Critique ' or 'Artistic Critique '? 6Dominance of the Marxist Paradigm 4 Third Phase: Continuity and New Challenges. Abendroth 's Retirement to the Early 1980s 1Social and Political Context 2The Political Sociology of Worker Consciousness and the Trade Unions (Frank Deppe) 3The History of German Social Democracy (Georg Fülberth and Jürgen Harrer) 4Studying Fascism (Reinhard Kühnl) 5The Political Sociology of Latin America (Dieter Boris) 6External Pressure, Administrative Interference, Difficult Encounters 7A Controversial History of the Trade Unions 8Theoretical Conflict: The Identity of Marxism 5 The Marburg School since the 1980s 1A Premature Farewell 2A Contribution to Constitutional Law (Peter Römer) 3Marburg in the Historikerstreit (Reinhard Kühnl) 4Activities and Interactions in the Academic Sphere 6 Fourth Phase: From the 'Epochal Rupture ' of 1989--90 to the Early 2000s 1Social and Political Context 2Confronting the 'Epochal Rupture ' (Georg Fülberth) 3Reacting to a Changed Situation 4Excursus: A Conversation between Ulrich Beck and Frank Deppe on the State of Political Opposition in Germany 7 Scholarly Focuses since the 1990s 1Research Activity and a New Conflict 2Social Movements in Latin America (Dieter Boris) 3Capitalism and Kapitalistik (Georg Fülberth) 4Political Thought from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Frank Deppe) 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index