Franz-J. Heilgendorff

Courses

Courses in the summer semester 2025

• Political Economy (Seminar, MA)

Courses in the winter semester 2024/2025

• Introduction to Sociology (Seminar, BA)

Courses in the summer semester 2024

• Work and Identity (Seminar, MA-SW Soz)

Courses in the winter semester 2023/2024

• Society and cognition. Dialectical Models (Seminar, BA-SM3)

Main areas of work

• Critical theory (1923-1970)
• Marxism
• Philosophical elements of a theory of society
• Social Philosophy
• Feminist theory
• Political economy and globalization

Scientific career and academic training

publications

Monographs

Heilgendorff, Franz: Categorial Critique. Zur Bedeutung von Kategorie und Begriff in der dialektischen Methode von Marx, Dietz Berlin, 2023 (2nd revised edition 2024) .

• reviewed by Alexander von Pechmann in the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (49.3/2024), Till Hahn in Aufhebung. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für dialektische Philosophie (19/2024), Gregorio Dimarchi on theoriekritik.ch, Sebastian Klauke in ak701, Lukas Brügger on denknetz.ch, Martin Küpper in Junge Welt and Harald Haslbauer on kritiknetz.de

Editorship

Marco Kleber: Philosophizing with Hegel (ed. by Rohbeck, Johannes/Heilgendorff, Franz/Tiedemann, Markus), Thelem, 2021

Essays and other articles

• Brügger, Lukas/Heilgendorff, Franz: Instead of addressing human-nature relations as political and social issues, we buy the cleaning of the oceans of plastic bottles with our shoes. An interview with Franz Heilgendorff. In: Denknetz. Conversation, 07.2024
• Heilgendorff, Franz: The concept of freedom and Marx's critique of Hegel. Speculative thinking as a theory of modernity. In: Hegel Yearbook 2021, p. 492 - 499.
• Heilgendorff, Franz: Hegel's Encyclopaedia and Marx's Capital. On the objectively motivated use of Hegelian categories. In: Hegel Yearbook 2020, Duncker&Humblot, pp. 129-136
• Heilgendorff, Franz: The law of economics. The method of the philosophy of law and Marx's critique of Hegel. In: Hegel-Studien 53/54 (2020), Felix-Meiner-Verlag, pp. 251 - 273 (together with Marco Kleber)
• Heilgendorff, Franz: The questionable thesis of a progressive popularization in "Capital" and its consequences. In: Das Argument, Argument Verlag, 2018 (No. 330), pp. 873 - 883
• Heilgendorff, Franz: Conceptualizing Globalization. In: Belvedresi, R.; Brauer, D.; Rohbeck, J.: Philosophy of Globalization, DeGruyter, 2018, pp. 47 - 61
• Heilgendorff, Franz: Global capitalism. An elucidation of the socially unconscious. In: Rohbeck, J.: Philosophy of globalization. Thelem, Dresden, 2017, pp. 81 - 100

Translations, reviews

• Marx, Karl: Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, First Volume, ed. and annotated by Michael Quante. In: The Argument. Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences (335/2020), p. 337 - 339
• Karl Marx: On the Critique of Political Economy (MEW 44) [Economic Manuscript 1861-1863. Part II]. In: Labor-Movement-History. Journal for Historical Studies (Issue 2019/II), p. 134 - 137
• Figueroa Ibarra, Carlos (2018): Military dictatorship (dictadura militar). In: Historical-critical dictionary of Marxism, Volume 9/I. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg, pp. 910-921
• Ortega, Jaime (2018): Military coup (golpe militar). In: Historical-critical dictionary of Marxism, Volume 9/I. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg, pp. 993-99
• Stapelfeldt, Gerhard: The Spirit of Contradiction. Studies on dialectics. In: The Argument. Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences (309/2014), pp. 574-575.
• Braunstein, Dirk: Adorno's critique of political economy. In: The Argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences (304/2013), pp. 754-755.
• von Pechmann, Alexander: The Capital of Karl Marx. A handbook. In: The Argument. Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences (302/2013), p. 431.

Lectures and workshops (selection)

• "Concept, Categories and Critique: Approaching the Core of Marx's Theory of Revolution", 21st Historical Materialism conference, SOAS London, 07-10.11.2024 (forthcoming).
• "Ilyenkov's Dialectics of the Ideal and Marx's Kapital", Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, International Conference "Images of the Ideal. Evald Ilyenkov at 100", 16/17.05.2024
• "Gesellschaft & Soziale Arbeit", weekend seminar for the Arbeitskreis kritische Soziale Arbeit Leipzig, 26./27.08.2023
• "No socialization without a concept of society", workshop for the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 27/28.05.2023, Berlin
• "Das Schicksal der Sinnlichkeit unter spätkapitalistischen Bedingungen", TU Dresden (as part of the lecture series "Schön sei das Wahre und das Schöne war. Aesthetics and Critique in Social Totality") 17.05.2023
• "What is dialectics?", seminar series for the Department of Political Education, TU Dresden (November 2021 - June 2022)
• "Why identity is not a concept", TU Dresden (as part of the lecture series "Alles wird nichts gewesen sein - Annäherungen an den Begriff der Identität"), April 2022
• "Between philology and critique of society. Marx's "Capital" and the "New Marx Reading", colloquium of the Institute of Philosophy, TU Dresden, June 2019
• "200 Years of Marx, 150 Years of Capital - History of Reception", Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Study Center, Leipzig, October 2018
• "Hegel's 'Encyclopaedia' and Marx's 'Capital'. On the objectively motivated use of philosophical categories in 'Capital'" at the "32nd International Hegel Congress 2018 - Hegel's Encyclopaedic System and its Legacy" in Tampere (Finland), June 2018
• "Zur didaktischen Aufbereitung des 'Kapital'" in the context of the conference "MARX200. Theory, Politics, Socialism" in Berlin, May 2018
• "Die Kategorienproblematik im Anschluss an das Kapital" at the conference "150 Jahre 'Das Kapital. On the Critique of Political Economy'. On the topicality of Marx's critique of capitalism. International symposium of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Institut Hannovers and the Kant-Forschungsstelle der Universität Trier" in Trier, December 2017
• "The power of things." as part of the "Blickpunkte" event series at TU Dresden, November 2017