HANNO PAHL, <hanno.pahl@uni-bielefeld.de>,  from Bielefeld, Germany
has joined our list. 
 
Hanno  studied political science and sociology at Bremen University from
1996 until 2002 and mainly focused on critical theory and Marxian theory.
His masters-thesis ('Diplomarbeit') was surveyed by Helmut Reichelt. It
dealt with the conceptions of money, economy and ´system` in the theories of
Karl Marx and Juergen Habermas.      
 
In 2003, he co-organized the 'Bremen Adorno-Conference', a conference on the
occasion of the 100th birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, held in October 2004 at
the University of Bremen. He explained the conception of that conference in the
following way:
 
"In opposition to the common Adorno-conferences in Germany in that year it
was the organizers intention not to treat Adorno as a sociological classic and
by this to relativize his current significance. Instead we highlighted his actuality
and the foundations of his thinking in the Marxian method. 
(http://www.adorno-konferenz-bremen.de )" 

 

In July, 2003 he moved to Bielefeld, joining a ‘DFG-Graduiertenkolleg’ at Bielefeld

University. He is currently working on a PhD thesis that deals with the relationship

between economy and finance in the theories of Karl Marx and Luhmann. See

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/iw/gk/pahl.htm

 

In 2004 he co-edited a ‘commemorative publication’ (festschrift) for Helmut Reichelt

called ‘Gesellschaft als Verkehrung. Perspektiven einer neuen Marx-Lektüre’.

This book contains articles from Hans-Georg Backhaus, Joachim Hirsch, [OPE-L

member] Michael Heinrich, Kosmas Psychopedis, Werner Bonefeld and others. See

http://www.isf-freiburg.org/ca-ira/Gesellschaft_als_Verkehrung.htm

 

Hanno wrote about Reichelt that:

 

"Maybe he is best known in the anglo-american context as -- together

with Hans-Georg Backhaus -- one of those students of Adorno who

pushed forward a critical reconstruction of the Marxian value theory of

labour as a monetary value theory."

 

Hanno expressed his interests as follows:

 

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 I am generally interested in:

 

-critical theory of society

-Marxian dialectical development/reconstruction of economic categories as

 a linkage between intentional action and emergent structural properties

-Marxian labour theory as a monetary value theory

-social studies of finance

-critical perspectives on accounting

 

More specific topics of current interest:

 

-the status and meaning of the credit sphere and fictive capital within the

 Marxian conception of the capitalist economy   

-the question of gold as money commodity and the possibility of functional equivalents

-emergence and self-referentiality in economy and finance

-evolution of economic systems

 

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Hanno: welcome aboard!

 

In solidarity, Jerry