Robert Kurz (philosopher)

Robert Kurz on an ATTAC-congress in March 2009

Robert Kurz (24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012) was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal Exit!. He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism.^[1] His works have yet to be translated into, and published in, English.^[2][3]

Life and work

Robert Kurz was born on 24 December 1943 in Nuremberg to a German working-class family. Kurz studied philosophy, history and paedagogy at the university of Erlangen without taking a degree. He was a member of the "Kommunistische Arbeiterbund Deutschland" (German Communist Workers League) during the 1970s.^[4] Kurz was a co-founder of the magazine Marxistische Kritik (Marxist Critique) in 1986.

Bibliography

Author

• The Collapse of Modernization: From the collapse of barracks socialism crisis of the world economy (1991) ISBN 3-8218-4421-3
• Honecker's Revenge: On the political economy of the reunified Germany (1991) ISBN 3-923118-62-7
• Potemkin's Return: Dummy capitalism and distribution war in Germany (1993) ISBN 3-923118-28-7
• The Last One Turns Off the Light: On the crisis of democracy and market economy (1993) ISBN 3-923118-88-0
• The World as Will and Design: Postmodernism, lifestyle Left and the aestheticization of the crisis (1999) ISBN 3-89320-024-X
• The Black Book of Capitalism: A Farewell to the Market Economy (1999) ISBN 3-8218-0491-2
• Marx Read: The most important texts of Karl Marx for the 21st Century (2000) ISBN 3-8218-1644-9
• World Order War: The End of Sovereignty and the changes of imperialism in the era of globalization (2003) ISBN 3-89502-149-0
• The Anti-German Ideology (2003) ISBN 3-89771-426-4
• Bloody Reason: Essays for emancipatory critique of capitalist modernity and its Western values (2004) ISBN 3-89502-182-2
• The World Capital: Globalization and internal barriers of modern commodity-producing system (2005) ISBN 3-89320-085-1
• Money Without Value: Plans to transform the critique of political economy (2012) ISBN 978-3-89502-343-9

See also

• Post-Marxism
• Krisis (German journal)

References

1. "Erneuerer des Marxismus: Robert Kurz ist tot" Spiegel Online. 20 July 2012. Retrieved on 6 September 2012.
2. "Erneuerer des Marxismus: Robert Kurz ist tot" Spiegel Online. 20 July 2012. Retrieved on 6 September 2012.
3. "In Memoriam: Robert Kurz" Principia Dialectica. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
4. Geschichte der MLPD, II. Teil, 2. Halbband, ISBN 3-88021-151-5, S. 405.

External links

• Robert Kurz / libcom.org