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Roswitha Scholz, born in Germany in 1959, is a philosopher and a
Patriarchy and Commodity Society: Gender without the Body
'' Mediations'' 27 (1-2). * Scholz, Roswitha (2008)
It’s the Class, Stupid?
(Some parts originally from “Überflüssig sein und Mittelschichtsangst: Exit! No. 5.)
Free texts by Scholz in english
* Audio: in german - Roswitha Scholz: Klassenpolitik und Identitätspolitik. Eine Kritik (Class politics and identity politics. A criticism)
Interview with Scholz - (In german)
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Roswitha Scholz, born in Germany in 1959, is a philosopher and a social theorist
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.Seidman, S., 2016. Contested knowledge: Social theory today. John Wiley & Sons. A tool used by social scientists, social theories rel ...
. She works as a editor for EXIT! journal, which she co-founded in 2004, after participating in the Krisis group and magazine (founded in 1986 in Nuremberg by the philosopher Robert Kurz, Ernst Lohoff, Klaus Braunwarth and Udo Winkel).
Inspired by the social theory of Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno ( ; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has com ...
, she revolutionized the theoretical current of value criticism
Value criticism () is a social theory which draws its foundation from the Marxian tradition and criticizes the contemporary mode of production. Value criticism was developed partly by critical readings of the traditions of the Frankfurt School an ...
in 1992 with her article Value is the male(''Der Wert ist der Mann'') which contained theses on socialization in relationship to the value form and the relationship between the sexes. The text initiated the theoretical current of value dissociation criticism, which enriched the field of value criticism with the feminist question, as well as transformed it in terms of both content and method.
She is committed to theorizing a question that remains, in her view, "an unsolved problem" in feminism, the internal link between capitalism and modern patriarchy and its metamorphoses, and tries to theorize a move beyond feminisms of equality, differancé, deconstructionism, materialism, ecofeminisms and "class struggle" feminisms.
Her writings broadly focus on racism
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...
, anti-Romanyism
Anti-Romani sentiment (also called antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia) is an ideology which consists of hostility, prejudice, discrimination, racism, and xenophobia which is specifically directed at Romani ...
, the critique of ideology, feminism, epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...
, critical theory
Critical theory is a social, historical, and political school of thought and philosophical perspective which centers on analyzing and challenging systemic power relations in society, arguing that knowledge, truth, and social structures are ...
, Marxism and gender relations in modernity. Her work has had an international impact in academia internationally. But with relatively very few interactions with the anglophone world. As well as in various progressive circles.
Selected bibliography
* Scholz, Roswitha (2000). Das Geschlecht des Kapitalismus. Feministische Theorie und die postmoderne Metamorphose des Patriarchats. Horlemann, B, Unkel, . * Scholz, Roswitha (2005). Differenzen der Krise - Krise der Differenzen. Die neue Gesellschaftskritik im globalen Zeitalter und der Zusammenhang von "Rasse", Klasse, Geschlecht und postmoderner Individualisierung. Horlemann, B., Unkel, . * Scholz, Roswitha (2013)Patriarchy and Commodity Society: Gender without the Body
'' Mediations'' 27 (1-2). * Scholz, Roswitha (2008)
It’s the Class, Stupid?
(Some parts originally from “Überflüssig sein und Mittelschichtsangst: Exit! No. 5.)
See also
* Anselm Jappe * EXIT! *Critique of political economy
Critique of political economy or simply the first critique of economy is a form of social critique that rejects the conventional ways of distributing resources. The critique also rejects what its advocates believe are unrealistic axioms, flawe ...
* Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situat ...
* Krisis
* Robert Kurz
* Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici (; born 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science prof ...
References
* This page is partly based on the French wikipedia-page "Roswitha Scholz".External links
Free texts by Scholz in english
* Audio: in german - Roswitha Scholz: Klassenpolitik und Identitätspolitik. Eine Kritik (Class politics and identity politics. A criticism)
Interview with Scholz - (In german)
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