{"title":"Dialektik des Unbewussten","authors":"H. Schiller","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2014-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2014-0004","url":null,"abstract":"The essay is analysing Freud’s concept of the unconsciousness and its relation to language and to the archaic thinking. The main thesis is that Freud’s concept of dynamic unconsciousness is well defined and justified, that however the hypostasis of the unconsciousness as an original realm or system with a proper way of thinking cannot be legitimated. The hypostasis of the unconsciousness is connected with its biological interpretation in the concept of instinct and in a expanded version of the recapitulation-theory. The hypostasis is part of an unhistorical concept of the human essence, which limits the utility of Freud’s thinking for the theory of society.","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116321004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die geisteswissenschaftliche Inanspruchnahme der Evolutionsbiologie","authors":"G. Toepfer","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2014-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2014-0003","url":null,"abstract":"The essay analyzes the current trend of viewing cultural phenomena from the perspective of evolutionary biology. It focuses on reconstructing claims from neo-naturalistic approaches and assesses their relevance for the humanities. The essay’s historical overview distinguishes four phases in these evolutionary accounts of cultural phenomena. An in-depth analysis looks at positions recently taken by scholars from the humanities, in particular Karl Eibl, Winfried Menninghaus, Horst Bredekamp and Wolfgang Welsch. The critique of their positions is directed at their interpretations of biological theories and at instances of restrictive fundamentalism that posit the biological perspective as more fundamental DOI 10.1515/zksp-2014-0003 ZKSP 2014; 1(1): 40–80","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123056753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Unausdenkbarkeit der Verzweiflung","authors":"Franco Zotta","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2014-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2014-0007","url":null,"abstract":"In his philosophy of history Immanuel Kant designs the teleological idea that humanity “always been in progress, and will go away so henceforth.” This idea seems to contradict only superficially with the historical reality, characterized by wars and other (human) disasters. According to Kant, the cunning of nature is able to guarantee progress, precisely because nature uses these antisocial propensities of human beeings to promote the progress behind their back. The article shows that this mechanistic understanding of history holds enormous impositions for finite subjects. They are forced to endure passively every injustice in the service of a higher logic, guaranteed by nature herself. Kantian philosophy has no sensorium for the desperation of people who are victims of despotism and repression. His philosophy of history is therefore not, as often claimed in the secondary literature, only a hope-giving intellectual pleasure trip. Quite the contrary, it promotes a world view that propagates for victims the martyrdom. And anyone who fights against it, according to Kant rightly loses his head. DOI 10.1515/zksp-2014-0007 ZKSP 2014; 1(1): 162–191","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125858587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Großer Highway und kleine Trampelpfade","authors":"Samuel Salzborn","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2015-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2015-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung: Die Geschichte der Kritischen Theorie nach Adorno und Horkheimer ist oft erzählt worden als eine Generationengeschichte, in der lineare Abfolgen das Bild prägen. Der Vorschlag des Beitrags hingegen ist, stattdessen nach den zentralen Prämissen in der Kritischen Theorie im Verhältnis von Subjekt und Gesellschaft zu fragen und entlang dieser unterschiedliche Entwicklungslinien seit den 1970er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart zu skizzieren, die die Kritische Theorie auf ihrem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert in ihrer Heterogenität und Pluralität zeigen.","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117239482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ein bloßer Leitfaden – aber ohne jede Alternative","authors":"Franco Zotta","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2014-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2014-0014","url":null,"abstract":"In einem Interview mit der Zeitschrift Cicero erörterte der Stanford-Gelehrte Ian Morris kürzlich, warum ihn seine historischen Studien zu der Erkenntnis geführt haben, dass Kriege die Welt insgesamt reicher und sicherer gemacht hätten. Zwar sei die Geschichte des Krieges eine sehr böse Geschichte. Aber, so Morris, die positiven Effekte überwögen das Elend bei weitem. Um zu dieser Bilanz zu gelangen, muss der Historiker freilich einen bestimmten Standpunkt einnehmen. Morris sagt: „Ich versuche einfach den Blick weg vom Detail, weg von den einzelnen Kriegen, hin auf das große Ganze zu richten“ (Morris 2013). So einfach ist das. Je weitschweifender der Blick, je subjektvergessener die Perspektive, desto weniger werden die historischen Bilanzierungsbemühungen verstört durch schmutzige kleine Details. Vor dem gewaltigen Panorama des großen Ganzen interessiert vor allem die Bewegungsrichtung, bei der sich die Menschheit, aus einer optimierungsbedürftigen Vergangenheit kommend, mit allen Mitteln in eine Zukunft hinein entwickelt, bei der das Leichensaldo dem Geschichtsbuchhalter Morris Anlass genug ist, die teleologisch ungemein zweckdienliche Rolle des Krieges zu preisen. Der einzelne Mensch freilich gerät in dieser unendlichen Transformationsbewegung zum bloßen „Funktionär der Unmerklichkeit des Zugewinns“, eingebettet in ein Geschichtsbild „von solcher Großräumigkeit, daß das einzelne Leben darin nichts mehr zu bedeuten“ scheint (Blumenberg 1986, S. 225). Es ist dieser, wie Pier Paolo Pasolini treffend bemerkt, „unerträgliche Siegerblick auf die Wirklichkeit“ (Pasolini 2011, S. 123), an dem sich seit jeher jede Kritik an geschichtsphilosophischen Systemen dieses Typs entzündet. Natürlich kennt auch Johannes Rohbeck diese, offenbar zu seinem Erstaunen, nicht verstummen wollenden Einwände. Seine Apologie der Kantischen","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127036279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naturtheorie, Gesellschaftstheorie, Messtheorie? Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Naturtheorie","authors":"Oliver Schlaudt","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2014-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2014-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Comment on the essay by F. Engster and A. Schröder on the naturalization of nature and society with a view to a critical theory of nature. As a clarification, I suggest the following classification of possible meanings of the term “critical theory of nature”: (1a) historical-materialist historiography of science in a descriptive sense; (1b) historical-materialist philosophy of science as a normative approach in epistemology; (2) a normative theory of human interventions in nature. Identifying the approach of Engster and Schröder with program (1b), I express two objections: The first one concerns the explanatory value of the thesis that modern society, the modern idea of nature and the neat separation of pure nature and pure society all originate (in a logical sense) in quantification. Secondly, I dispute the thesis that there is a real parallel between the construction DOI 10.1515/zksp-2014-0006 ZKSP 2014; 1(1): 148–161","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124138065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freiheit – Gleichheit – Eigentum – Sozialstaat = Kapitalismus","authors":"Albert Krölls","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2016-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2016-0011","url":null,"abstract":"As opposed to common conceptions amongst left-wing analysts (most recently Brunkhorst 2014), this article proves that Germany’s Basic Law contains no unutilised potential for emancipation in the direction of a socialist society, but rather necessarily anchors the capitalist reason of state. The topics of this argumentation are the Left’s old and new bearers of hope in constitutional law: freedom and equality of opportunity, the social obligation of private property, the public ownership clause, the state goals of labor and environmental protection, and the principle of the welfare state.","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"425 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welche Geschichte erzählen Pikettys Daten?","authors":"Gérard Duménil, D. Levy","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2015-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2015-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the remarkable work of collecting data on wealth in the major advanced economies conducted by Th. Piketty and his colleagues, the interpretations put forward in Capital in the 21st Century are not satisfactory. The analysis lacks reference to „capital“ itself, that which governs the dynamics of the capitalist mode of production. The article criticizes both theoretically and empirically *Kontaktperson: Gérard Duménil,Ökonom, Forscher am CNRS (Frankreich), E ˗ Mail: gerard.dumenil@u-paris10.fr Dominique Lévy,Ökonom, Forscher am CNRS (Frankreich), E ˗ Mail: domi.levy@free.fr Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie 2015; 2(2): 219–254","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125473335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nachhaltige Kritik?","authors":"P. Bierl","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2015-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2015-0016","url":null,"abstract":"The essay is discussing the theoretical background of the present Degrowth-Movement with a focus on the German debate. The main thesis is that major parts of this movement are lacking an adequate understanding of capitalism. Instead the vague term growth is used to explain ecological devastation and climate change and its impact on humankind and nature. Growth is analyzed as a consequence of moral shortcomings as greed, wrong or exaggerated consum or of a growth-ideology, the latter argument is tautologic. Especially Niko Paech, who is dominating the discourse in Germany, takes a conservative point of view, which is usually ignored.","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115218887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kritik woran?","authors":"P. Schulz","doi":"10.1515/zksp-2015-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zksp-2015-0005","url":null,"abstract":"The article identifies the relation between the criticism of capitalism and modernity in the work of Hartmut Rosa. It details his major concepts acceleration, alienation and resonance to show how the critique changes its topic within the theory. Hartmut Rosa claims a radical criticism of capitalism in the tradition of Critical Theory. Concurrently his work bases on Charles Taylors Communitarianism. Rosa dissolves the subsequent ambivalence by dropping the criticism of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":250691,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123753184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}