Gerhard Stapelfeldt

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Gerhard Stapelfeldt
Born (1947-10-26) October 26, 1947 (age 75)
NationalityGerman
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DisciplineSociology

Gerhard Stapelfeldt (born October 26, 1947, Hamburg, Germany) is a German sociologist. He was a university teacher at University of Hamburg until December 2010.

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In 1979 Stapelfeldt published his PhD Thesis, a reconstruction and interpretation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital with special reference to Marx's further studies and writings. [1] Following this interpretation he then put its consequences into practice by developing a programme of depicting and interpreting political economy, from mercantilism, [2] to Liberalism, [3] imperialism [4] and finally Neoliberalism. [5]

The focal point of his studies lies in the critical theory of society and the history of ideas while his theoretical point of reference is the Critical theory of the Frankfurt School, with theorists like Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno or Herbert Marcuse, and of Karl Marx. Other major influences on his thinking come from Greek philosophy, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel or Sigmund Freud. He teaches sociology but also social history, economic history and philosophy.

His major work is a three-part work, also his professorial dissertation, the Critique of Economic Rationality (Kritik der ökonomischen Rationalität), which describes the genesis as well as the logic, institutional and empirical structure of capitalism in the eras of state-interventionism and Neoliberalism. [6] It contains a general historical-philosophical part as well as examinations of the political economy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the European Union and world economy.

Among his current works is an analysis of the Euro crisis (http://www.kritiknetz.de). In this interpretation he shows and explains the history of the Euro and criticises that European policy mainly took the currency - and not political ideas - as EU-European identity. [7]

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References

  1. Das Problem des Anfangs in der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1979
  2. Der Merkantilismus. Die Genese der Weltgesellschaft vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Ça Ira: Freiburg 2001
    • Der Liberalismus. Die Gesellschaftstheorien von Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Ça Ira, Freiburg 2006
  3. Der Imperialismus – Krise und Krieg 1870/73 bis 1918/29, Erster Band: Politische Ökonomie, Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008; Der Imperialismus – Krise und Krieg 1870/73 bis 1918/29, Zweiter Band: Anthropologie und Rationalität, Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008
  4. Kapitalistische Weltökonomie. Vom Staatsinterventionismus zum Neoliberalismus. Kritik der ökonomischen Rationalität. Vierter Band, erstes Buch. Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2009; Kapitalistische Weltökonomie. Vom Staatsinterventionismus zum Neoliberalismus. Kritik der ökonomischen Rationalität. Vierter Band, zweites Buch. Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2009
  5. Kritik der ökonomischen Rationalität, Band 1-3, Lit, Münster 1998
  6. Video on YouTube

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