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Das Argument

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Language
  
German

Frequency
  
6/year

OCLC no.
  
1743472

Publication history
  
1959–present

ISSN
  
0004-1157

Publisher
  
Berlin Institute for Critical Theory (Germany)

Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften (English: The Argument: Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences) is a German academic journal. It was established in 1959 as an independent West German journal of predominantly Marxist orientation. It appears six times a year.

Contents

History

The journal emerged from the protests against West German remilitarization. Since 1959, the editor-in-chief has been the Marxist philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Free University of Berlin). Das Argument is published by the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT).

Scope

Each issue of the journal is devoted to a specific theme (e.g., in 2006 these have been "American Vistas", "Politics of Literature", "Female Migrants", "Thinking History Globally" and "Big Contradiction China"). The journal contains a substantial review section which is also derived from the original Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung. Among the topics covered are:

  • Philosophy and Critical Theory
  • Plural Marxism, Western Marxism, Open Marxism, Marxist feminism
  • Critical History, analysis of capitalism, neoliberalism/neoliberal mode of production and way of life
  • Social sciences
  • Social theory, capitalist globalization, transnational class analysis
  • Fascism theory, ideology theory, culture theory
  • Literary science
  • History of the labor movement
  • Ecology

    • Abstracting and indexing

    Das Argument is abstracted and indexed in:

  • Scopus
  • IBZ Online
  • Periodicals Index Online
  • MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Philosopher's Index

    • References

    Das Argument Wikipedia
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