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Oskar Negt

December 15, 2023

Oskar Reinhard Negt (German pronunciation: [ˈneːkt]; born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, East Prussia) is a philosopher and critical social theorist. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, and one of Germany's most prominent social scientists.[1][2] Little of his work has been translated into English.

Oskar Negt in 2011.

Negt studied law and philosophy in the University of Göttingen and the University of Frankfurt am Main as a student of Theodor Adorno, and was an assistant of Jürgen Habermas at the Universität Frankfurt. Negt is most-well known for his long running collaboration with the filmmaker and visual artist Alexander Kluge.

Biography edit

Negt was the youngest child of seven, and his father was involved in the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during World War II, who faced pressure under Nazi rule. In 1944, Negt was separated from his parents and displaced to Denmark following the Red Army's invasion of Königsberg. During his stay in Denmark, Negt and two of his older sisters stayed in an internment camp for two and a half years, until which the camp doors were finally reopened and Negt and his sisters were reunited with their parents in Russian occupied Berlin, after having been placed in quarantine near Rostock on their return to Germany. It was during this time that Negt's childhood was deeply affected, missing out on early development with no exposure to childhood schooling.

In 1951, the political pressure mounted on Negt's family from the state, due to his father's involvement in the SDP, Negt's family fled to West Berlin, where they would spend a further 6 months as asylum seekers. In 1955, the Negt family settled into Oldenburg in Lower Saxony.[3]

In 1955 Negt arrived in Göttingen to study law, but found the commitments entailed by membership in the local Burschenschaft overly burdensome.[4] He later left, joined the Socialist German Students' Union (SDS), and enrolled in the Universität Frankfurt (now Goethe University Frankfurt) for the study of sociology and philosophy. It is here that he encountered Max Horkheimer and Adorno, then finally Habermas who was impressed with one of Negt's class papers. Negt was later offered a place as a research assistant for Habermas (on the topic of Marxism and the SDS) at the University of Heidelberg in 1961.[4] In 1968 Negt upset his mentor Habermas[4] by editing a collection of essays on him (titled The Left answers Jurgen Habermas), some of which were highly critical.[5]

Negt published his autobiography in two instalments in 2016 and 2019, titled respectively Überlebensglück (Survivors’ Luck: An Autobiographical Search for Tracks) and Erfahrungsspuren (Tracks of Experience: An Autobiographical Thought-Journey). He also collaborated with the filmmaker Alexander Kluge on three films about post-socialist Europe. Negt's work with Kluge has been described as "highly unconventional" but significant in "an attempt to reinstate the human body to its rightful place in critical theory."[6]

Intellectual influences edit

Negt's work is said to be difficult to classify due to the enormous range of influences found in it from so many texts and philosophers.[4] These include Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, and some of the major Western Marxists. He draws on work in labour sociology, organizational theory, political journalism and more. Negt's primary concerns relate to labor, teaching, and politics.[4]

Negt was brought up as the son of a small farmer and a member of the Social Democratic Party, and this "rural and... proletarian existence" led him to have ties with SPD causes, including trade unions.[2] These experiences led him to feel that while standard education for union members in metal working factories in Germany was sufficient for teaching legal questions, it was insufficient in political education. Negt thus understands genuine education to be inherently political, because democracy must be learned, making education existential for a democratic society.[2] Negt is thus suspicious of the ideology and logic of capital and the market replacing all other forms of social reality. This informs Negt's views on education as the holistic development of the person, limited not only to "processing knowledge and information" but also the ability to deal with emotions, to compromise, negotiate, and share with others. Thus for Negt, "good political education" means that the student can "think for themselves."[2]

Work with Alexander Kluge edit

Oskar Negt's most well-known public interventions in politics have been part of his collaboration with the artist Alexander Kluge.[7] Their seminal work Public Sphere and Experience was an analysis of the limits of the bourgeois public sphere, which shaped Public opposition.[8]

Selected bibliography edit

In English edit

  • “The Misery of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany”. Telos 34 (Winter 1974). New York: Telos Press.[9]
  • Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere, Verso;[10] Reprint edition (February 2, 2016) Originally issued as Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (Theory & History of Literature) by Univ of Minnesota Pr; First edition (December 1, 1993).[11]
  • "Adult Education and European Identity". Policy Futures in Education. 6 (6): 744–756. (2013)[12]
  • History and Obstinacy (with Alexander Kluge), Zone Books (April 11, 2014)

In German edit

  • Strukturbeziehungen zwischen den Gesellschaftslehren Comtes und Hegels. Frankfurt a. M. 1964.
  • Soziologische Phantasie und exemplarisches Lernen. Zur Theorie der Arbeiterbildung. Frankfurt a. M. 1968.
  • Politik als Protest. Reden und Aufsätze zur antiautoritären Bewegung. Frankfurt a. M. 1971.
  • (with Alexander Kluge): Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung. Zur Organisationsanalyse von bürgerlicher und proletarischer Öffentlichkeit. Frankfurt a. M. 1972.
  • Keine Demokratie ohne Sozialismus. Über den Zusammenhang von Politik, Geschichte und Moral. Frankfurt a. M. 1976.
  • Mit Alexander Kluge: Geschichte und Eigensinn. Geschichtliche Organisation der Arbeitsvermögen – Deutschland als Produktionsöffentlichkeit – Gewalt des Zusammenhangs. Frankfurt a. M. 1981.
  • Lebendige Arbeit, enteignete Zeit. Politische und kulturelle Dimensionen des Kampfes um die Arbeitszeit. Frankfurt a. M./New York 1984.
  • Alfred Sohn-Rethel. Bremen 1988.
  • Modernisierung im Zeichen des Drachen. China und der europäische Mythos der Moderne. Reisetagebuch und Gedankenexperimente. Frankfurt a. M. 1988.
  • Die Herausforderung der Gewerkschaften. Plädoyers für die Erweiterung ihres politischen und kulturellen Mandats. Frankfurt a. M./New York 1989.
  • (with Alexander Kluge): Maßverhältnisse des Politischen: 15 Vorschläge zum Unterscheidungsvermögen. Frankfurt a. M. 1992
  • Kältestrom. Göttingen 1994. ISBN 3-88243-358-2
  • Unbotmäßige Zeitgenossen. Annäherungen und Erinnerungen. Frankfurt a. M. 1994.
  • Achtundsechzig. Politische Intellektuelle und die Macht. Göttingen 1995.
  • Kindheit und Schule in einer Welt der Umbrüche. Göttingen 1997.
  • (with Hans Werner Dannowski): Königsberg–Kaliningrad: Reise in die Stadt Kants und Hamanns. Göttingen 1998.
  • Warum SPD? 7 Argumente für einen nachhaltigen Macht- und Politikwechsel. Göttingen 1998.
  • (with Alexander Kluge): Der unterschätzte Mensch. Frankfurt a. M. 2001. (* ISBN 3-88243-786-3
  • Kant und Marx. Ein Epochengespräch. Göttingen 2003.
  • Wozu noch Gewerkschaften? Eine Streitschrift. Steidl Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-86521-165-8
  • Die Faust-Karriere. Vom verzweifelten Intellektuellen zum gescheiterten Unternehmer. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-86521-188-7

References edit

  1. ^ "Oskar Negt". Steidl Verlag. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  2. ^ a b c d Pohl, Kerstin; Hufer, Klaus-Peter (2016). "An Interview with Oskar Negt (2004)". International Labor and Working-Class History. 90: 203–207. doi:10.1017/S0147547916000120. ISSN 0147-5479.
  3. ^ Negt, Oskar (2016). Überlebensglück. Steidl Books. ISBN 978-3-95829-212-3.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Adrian Grama, Negt without Kluge, NLR 123, May–June 2020". New Left Review. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  5. ^ Abendroth, Wolfgang. (1968). Die Linke antwortet Jürgen Habermas. OCLC 164464576.
  6. ^ Adelson, Leslie A. (February 1987). "Contemporary Critical Consciousness: Peter Sloterdijk, Oskar Negt/Alexander Kluge, and the "New Subjectivity"". German Studies Review. 10 (1): 57–68. doi:10.2307/1430443. ISSN 0149-7952. JSTOR 1430443.
  7. ^ Hottman, Tara (2015). "Message in a Bottle". Qui Parle. 23 (2): 215–227. doi:10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0215. ISSN 1041-8385. S2CID 142732197.
  8. ^ Krause, Monika (February 2006). "The Production of Counter-Publics and the Counter-Publics of Production: An Interview with Oskar Negt" (PDF). European Journal of Social Theory. 9 (1): 119–128. doi:10.1177/1368431006060481. ISSN 1368-4310. S2CID 142970446.
  9. ^ Negt, Oskar (1977-12-21). "The Misery of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany". Telos. 1977 (34): 123–135. doi:10.3817/1277034123. ISSN 0090-6514. S2CID 146844406.
  10. ^ Kluge, Alexander, VerfasserIn. (2016). Public sphere and experience toward an analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78478-241-2. OCLC 991594772. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Negt, Oskar. (1993). Public sphere and experience : toward an analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere. Kluge, Alexander, 1932-. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-2031-8. OCLC 27725297.
  12. ^ Negt, Oskar (2013), "Adult Education and European Identity", Learning with Adults, Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 113–130, doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-335-5_9, ISBN 978-94-6209-335-5

External links edit

  • Website at the Institute of Sociology in Hannover
  • Biography of Negt

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Oskar Reinhard Negt German pronunciation ˈneːkt born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim East Prussia is a philosopher and critical social theorist He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover and one of Germany s most prominent social scientists 1 2 Little of his work has been translated into English Oskar Negt in 2011 Negt studied law and philosophy in the University of Gottingen and the University of Frankfurt am Main as a student of Theodor Adorno and was an assistant of Jurgen Habermas at the Universitat Frankfurt Negt is most well known for his long running collaboration with the filmmaker and visual artist Alexander Kluge Contents 1 Biography 2 Intellectual influences 2 1 Work with Alexander Kluge 3 Selected bibliography 3 1 In English 3 2 In German 4 References 5 External linksBiography editNegt was the youngest child of seven and his father was involved in the Social Democratic Party SDP during World War II who faced pressure under Nazi rule In 1944 Negt was separated from his parents and displaced to Denmark following the Red Army s invasion of Konigsberg During his stay in Denmark Negt and two of his older sisters stayed in an internment camp for two and a half years until which the camp doors were finally reopened and Negt and his sisters were reunited with their parents in Russian occupied Berlin after having been placed in quarantine near Rostock on their return to Germany It was during this time that Negt s childhood was deeply affected missing out on early development with no exposure to childhood schooling In 1951 the political pressure mounted on Negt s family from the state due to his father s involvement in the SDP Negt s family fled to West Berlin where they would spend a further 6 months as asylum seekers In 1955 the Negt family settled into Oldenburg in Lower Saxony 3 In 1955 Negt arrived in Gottingen to study law but found the commitments entailed by membership in the local Burschenschaft overly burdensome 4 He later left joined the Socialist German Students Union SDS and enrolled in the Universitat Frankfurt now Goethe University Frankfurt for the study of sociology and philosophy It is here that he encountered Max Horkheimer and Adorno then finally Habermas who was impressed with one of Negt s class papers Negt was later offered a place as a research assistant for Habermas on the topic of Marxism and the SDS at the University of Heidelberg in 1961 4 In 1968 Negt upset his mentor Habermas 4 by editing a collection of essays on him titled The Left answers Jurgen Habermas some of which were highly critical 5 Negt published his autobiography in two instalments in 2016 and 2019 titled respectively Uberlebensgluck Survivors Luck An Autobiographical Search for Tracks and Erfahrungsspuren Tracks of Experience An Autobiographical Thought Journey He also collaborated with the filmmaker Alexander Kluge on three films about post socialist Europe Negt s work with Kluge has been described as highly unconventional but significant in an attempt to reinstate the human body to its rightful place in critical theory 6 Intellectual influences editNegt s work is said to be difficult to classify due to the enormous range of influences found in it from so many texts and philosophers 4 These include Immanuel Kant Georg Hegel Karl Marx Auguste Comte and some of the major Western Marxists He draws on work in labour sociology organizational theory political journalism and more Negt s primary concerns relate to labor teaching and politics 4 Negt was brought up as the son of a small farmer and a member of the Social Democratic Party and this rural and proletarian existence led him to have ties with SPD causes including trade unions 2 These experiences led him to feel that while standard education for union members in metal working factories in Germany was sufficient for teaching legal questions it was insufficient in political education Negt thus understands genuine education to be inherently political because democracy must be learned making education existential for a democratic society 2 Negt is thus suspicious of the ideology and logic of capital and the market replacing all other forms of social reality This informs Negt s views on education as the holistic development of the person limited not only to processing knowledge and information but also the ability to deal with emotions to compromise negotiate and share with others Thus for Negt good political education means that the student can think for themselves 2 Work with Alexander Kluge edit Oskar Negt s most well known public interventions in politics have been part of his collaboration with the artist Alexander Kluge 7 Their seminal work Public Sphere and Experience was an analysis of the limits of the bourgeois public sphere which shaped Public opposition 8 Selected bibliography editIn English edit The Misery of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany Telos 34 Winter 1974 New York Telos Press 9 Public Sphere and Experience Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere Verso 10 Reprint edition February 2 2016 Originally issued as Public Sphere and Experience Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere Theory amp History of Literature by Univ of Minnesota Pr First edition December 1 1993 11 Adult Education and European Identity Policy Futures in Education 6 6 744 756 2013 12 History and Obstinacy with Alexander Kluge Zone Books April 11 2014 In German edit Strukturbeziehungen zwischen den Gesellschaftslehren Comtes und Hegels Frankfurt a M 1964 Soziologische Phantasie und exemplarisches Lernen Zur Theorie der Arbeiterbildung Frankfurt a M 1968 Politik als Protest Reden und Aufsatze zur antiautoritaren Bewegung Frankfurt a M 1971 with Alexander Kluge Offentlichkeit und Erfahrung Zur Organisationsanalyse von burgerlicher und proletarischer Offentlichkeit Frankfurt a M 1972 Keine Demokratie ohne Sozialismus Uber den Zusammenhang von Politik Geschichte und Moral Frankfurt a M 1976 Mit Alexander Kluge Geschichte und Eigensinn Geschichtliche Organisation der Arbeitsvermogen Deutschland als Produktionsoffentlichkeit Gewalt des Zusammenhangs Frankfurt a M 1981 Lebendige Arbeit enteignete Zeit Politische und kulturelle Dimensionen des Kampfes um die Arbeitszeit Frankfurt a M New York 1984 Alfred Sohn Rethel Bremen 1988 Modernisierung im Zeichen des Drachen China und der europaische Mythos der Moderne Reisetagebuch und Gedankenexperimente Frankfurt a M 1988 Die Herausforderung der Gewerkschaften Pladoyers fur die Erweiterung ihres politischen und kulturellen Mandats Frankfurt a M New York 1989 with Alexander Kluge Massverhaltnisse des Politischen 15 Vorschlage zum Unterscheidungsvermogen Frankfurt a M 1992 Kaltestrom Gottingen 1994 ISBN 3 88243 358 2 Unbotmassige Zeitgenossen Annaherungen und Erinnerungen Frankfurt a M 1994 Achtundsechzig Politische Intellektuelle und die Macht Gottingen 1995 Kindheit und Schule in einer Welt der Umbruche Gottingen 1997 with Hans Werner Dannowski Konigsberg Kaliningrad Reise in die Stadt Kants und Hamanns Gottingen 1998 Warum SPD 7 Argumente fur einen nachhaltigen Macht und Politikwechsel Gottingen 1998 with Alexander Kluge Der unterschatzte Mensch Frankfurt a M 2001 ISBN 3 88243 786 3 Kant und Marx Ein Epochengesprach Gottingen 2003 Wozu noch Gewerkschaften Eine Streitschrift Steidl Verlag 2004 ISBN 3 86521 165 8 Die Faust Karriere Vom verzweifelten Intellektuellen zum gescheiterten Unternehmer Gottingen 2006 ISBN 3 86521 188 7References edit Oskar Negt Steidl Verlag Retrieved 2018 11 07 a b c d Pohl Kerstin Hufer Klaus Peter 2016 An Interview with Oskar Negt 2004 International Labor and Working Class History 90 203 207 doi 10 1017 S0147547916000120 ISSN 0147 5479 Negt Oskar 2016 Uberlebensgluck Steidl Books ISBN 978 3 95829 212 3 a b c d e Adrian Grama Negt without Kluge NLR 123 May June 2020 New Left Review Retrieved 2020 07 08 Abendroth Wolfgang 1968 Die Linke antwortet Jurgen Habermas OCLC 164464576 Adelson Leslie A February 1987 Contemporary Critical Consciousness Peter Sloterdijk Oskar Negt Alexander Kluge and the New Subjectivity German Studies Review 10 1 57 68 doi 10 2307 1430443 ISSN 0149 7952 JSTOR 1430443 Hottman Tara 2015 Message in a Bottle Qui Parle 23 2 215 227 doi 10 5250 quiparle 23 2 0215 ISSN 1041 8385 S2CID 142732197 Krause Monika February 2006 The Production of Counter Publics and the Counter Publics of Production An Interview with Oskar Negt PDF European Journal of Social Theory 9 1 119 128 doi 10 1177 1368431006060481 ISSN 1368 4310 S2CID 142970446 Negt Oskar 1977 12 21 The Misery of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany Telos 1977 34 123 135 doi 10 3817 1277034123 ISSN 0090 6514 S2CID 146844406 Kluge Alexander VerfasserIn 2016 Public sphere and experience toward an analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere Verso Books ISBN 978 1 78478 241 2 OCLC 991594772 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a last has generic name help CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Negt Oskar 1993 Public sphere and experience toward an analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere Kluge Alexander 1932 Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0 8166 2031 8 OCLC 27725297 Negt Oskar 2013 Adult Education and European Identity Learning with Adults Rotterdam SensePublishers pp 113 130 doi 10 1007 978 94 6209 335 5 9 ISBN 978 94 6209 335 5External links editWebsite at the Institute of Sociology in Hannover Biography of Negt Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Oskar Negt amp oldid 1172492018, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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