Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Ingar Solty -- Abendroth School or Marburg School? -- First Phase: Gradual Formation, 1950 to the Mid-1960s -- Second Phase: Emergence of an ‘Epistemic Community’, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s -- Third Phase: Continuity and New Challenges. Abendroth’s Retirement to the Early 1980s -- The Marburg School since the 1980s -- Fourth Phase: From the ‘Epochal Rupture’ of 1989–90 to the Early 2000s -- Scholarly Focuses since the 1990s -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Alongside the ‘critical theory’ of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist current known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school’s history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society – an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period. This book was first published in 2014 as Marx an die Uni. Die "Marburger Schule" – Geschichte, Probleme, Akteure by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-38-94-38546-0. With a new Introduction by Ingar Solty.