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Wolfgang Fritz Haug (40144653940) (cropped)

Wolfgang Fritz Haug (born March 23, 1936 in

Esslingen am Neckar Esslingen am Neckar (Swabian: ''Esslenga am Neckor'') is a town in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, seat of the District of Esslingen as well as the largest town in the district. Within Baden-Württemberg it is th ...

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Württ ...

) was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the

Free University Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, where he had also studied

romance language The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language f ...

s and religious studies and taken his PhD (in 1966 on the topic of "

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...

and the construction of absurdity").

Career

Haug coined the term commodity aestheticism (''Warenästhetik,'' in German). His ''Critique of Commodity Aesthetics'' has been translated into numerous languages. Since 1958, he has also been the chief editor of the journal '' Das Argument,'' the successor to the ''Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung'' (1933–1941). The latter journal was housed at the Institute of Social Research (founded by

Max Horkheimer Max Horkheimer (; ; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militari ...

). In a sense, Haug thus maintains a direct line from the

Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), dur ...

. Since 1994, Haug also edits the ''Historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus'' and edited ''The Historical Critical Dictionary of Marxism,'' published by the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory. With his wife

Frigga Haug Frigga Haug (née Langenberger) (born November 28, 1937) is a German socialist-feminist sociologist and philosopher. Life Frigga Langenberger was born in Mülheim. She studied sociology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. In 1963, sh ...

he was one of the first to become members of the new left wing party Die Linke in 2007. Haug is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of

ATTAC The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l'Action Citoyenne (''Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizen's Action'', ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the e ...

Major books and papers

* ''Kritik der Warenästhetik'' (1971). * ''High-Tech-Kapitalismus. Analysen zu Produktionsweise, Arbeit, Sexualität, Krieg und Hegemonie'', 2003. * '' Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus'' (in 15 books, 7 already published), 1994-today.

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Biography
1936 births Living people People from Esslingen am Neckar The Left (Germany) politicians 21st-century German politicians People from the Free People's State of Württemberg 20th-century German philosophers German male writers {{Germany-Left-politician-stub