Marcel Stoetzler
Biographic Data
| ID | 290073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcel Stoetzler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoetzler |
| SIGNATURE | STOETZLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Needless Necessity
The Antisemitism of Producers
The article suggests that Nazi antisemitism inherited one of its key elements, the idea of the nation as a community of producers, from the tradition of modern bourgeois ideology inaugurated in the period of the French Revolution. It argues that this element of continuity can help explain its attractiveness to large constituencies across many political and social divides. First, the article provides a detailed interpretation of the January 1939 R…
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism
This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School’s theory of antisemitism and, employing this critical theory, investigates the presence of antisemitism in 20th- and 21st-century politics and society. Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism uncovers how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, as it frames its rejection of antisemitism in the critique of other aspects…
Capitalismo, nación y corrosión social
El ensayo tiene como objetivo contribuir a una mejor comprensión del concepto de "antisemitismo de izquierda". Señala al "antiimperialismo", es decir, la resistencia nacionalista, a menudo culturalista, a la expansión global del modo de producción capitalista, como un contexto crucial del antisemitismo contemporáneo en el que los límites entre "derecha" e "izquierda" son a menudo borrosos. El argumento principal es que la dialéctica del capitalis…
Beginning Classical Social Theory
From interacting systems to a system of divisions
This article examines a fundamental theoretical aspect of the discourse on 'intersectionality' in feminist and anti-racist social theory, namely, the question whether intersecting social divisions including those of sex, gender, race, class and sexuality are interacting but independent entities with autonomous ontological bases or whether they are different dimensions of the same social system that lack separate social ontologies and constitute e…
Situated Knowledge
The term “situated knowledge” was introduced in 1988 by Donna Haraway as an alternative to positivist notions of objectivity and relativism, although it has roots reaching far back in modern western philosophy. “Situated knowledge” has therefore become a major concept in feminist and antiracist theory
Intersectional Individuality
Georg Simmel's 'The intersection of social circles,' a chapter in his 1908Sociology, contains discussions of class, religion, ethnic, and gender relations that are highly relevant to contemporary sociological concerns. Simmel's argument is based on a notion of historical dynamic that interprets increasingly complex intersectionality as a sign of progressing civilization. The article establishes how Simmel describes 'the intersection of social cir…
Authority, Identity, Society
Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology
Marx on modernity, revisited
German modernity, barbarous Slavs and profit‐seekingJews
This paper examines emblematic texts by two important protagonists of post‐1848 liberalism inGermany,GustavFreytag andHeinrich vonTreitschke, focusing on their treatment ofJews andPoles. The paper analyses the social content of their statements and argues that the elements of anti‐Semitism and anti‐Slav racism that they contain were motivated by the specific kind of nationalist liberalism that frames their affirmation of the process of modernisat…
On the possibility that the revolution that will end capitalism might fail to usher in communism
This article argues that further development of John Holloway's approach in Change the World without Taking Power and Crack Capitalism needs to address two objections: first, some of the tendencies and practices described by Holloway as 'screams' and 'cracks' may contribute to the emergence of communism (that is, universal human emancipation), but may not cause the demise of capitalism; second, some practices that are (subjectively or objectively…
Holocaust memory in the twenty-first century
This article explores the meanings of ‘commemoration’ and ‘memory’ in the context of a Holocaust memory that is often described as global or globalised, or indeed of Holocaust commemoration. The authors examine the ‘globalised’ as well as the rather national aspects of some emblematic recent events in this context including the Stockholm Declaration and the first Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain and discuss some of the classical sociological the…
Antisemitismus und Gesellschaftstheorie
Antisemitism, capitalism and the formation of sociological theory
Starting out from the proposition that modern antisemitism is a grotesque form of social theory that provides in its notion of 'Jewification' a critique of processes of capitalist modernization, Stoetzler points to the shared ground between classical sociological theory and modern antisemitism, and examines how their conceptual overlap influenced the ways in which sociologists responded to antisemitism or to the phenomena to which antisemitism al…
Modern antisemitism and the emergence of sociology
El Marx De Postone
Stoetzler explora el libro de Moishe Postone, Tiempo, Trabajo y Dominación Social, y su importancia en la discusión de la clase, los movimientos sociales y la teoría crítica del capitalismo y la modernidad. Aborda las categorías centrales de la obra de Postone, incluyendo el "trabajo abstracto" como función del trabajo en su papel de actividad socialmente mediadora en el capitalismo, la lucha de clases como elemento motor de éste, la dicotomía es…
The State, the Nation, and the Jews
Cultural difference in the national state
Stoetzler explores a series of newspaper and journal articles published in Germany in 1879–81 that are part of what later came to be called the ‘Berlin Antisemitism Dispute’. In these articles, anti-Jewish remarks by the historian and right-wing liberal politician Heinrich von Treitschke were responded to by leading political and academic figures, including Theodor Mommsen, Moritz Lazarus and Ludwig Bamberger. Treitschke's texts have been seen as…
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement
On How to Make Adorno Scream
Historical Materialism , volume 13:4 (193–215) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl Marcel Stoetzler On How to Make Adorno Scream: Some Notes on John Holloway's Change the World without Taking Power John Holloway's book is an essentially orthodox intervention – that is, a revision of the tradition by loyalty to its founding texts – concerned with transmitting an unredeemed theoretical achievement of the past i…
Subject trouble
In this essay I explore the role of dialectics for how social theory can take account of the problem of structure and agency, or, determination and freedom, in a critical and emancipatory way. I discuss the limits and possibilities of dialectical, and of anti-dialectical, criticisms of Hegelian dialectics. For this purpose, I look at Judith Butler’s discussion of dialectics and the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in her writings between 1987 ( Sub…
Postone's Marx
Leer a Butler Al Revés. Sobre en Lo Que Uno Se Convierte, en Lo Que Uno Se Incluye Y Lo Que Uno No Es
Este ensayo estudia el razonamiento de Judith Butler sobre los conceptos de sexo y género. Se analiza el cambio hacia una posición de rechazo a la tradición de la dialéctica hegeliana, y se sostiene que dicho cambio en la estructura lógica de sus trabajos debilita su crítica radical de la política de la identidad. Se sugiere que una lectura de los trabajos de Butler que incorpore temas de la Dialéctica negativa de Adorno puede potenciar el razona…
Standpoint theory, situated knowledge and the situated imagination
The aim of the article is to further assess and develop feminist standpoint theory by introducing the notion of the `situated imagination' as constituting an important part of this theory as well as that of `situated knowledge'. The article argues that the faculty of the imagination constructs as well as transforms, challenges and supersedes both existing knowledge and social reality. However, like knowledge, it is crucial to theorize the imagina…
Imagined Boundaries and Borders
The article explores various ways collectivity boundaries and territorial borders, as well as the act of crossing them, are experienced and imagined, particularly by women. In doing so, the article draws on autobiographical material collected by email from women in about 25 different countries
Intersectional Individuality
Georg Simmel's 'The intersection of social circles,' a chapter in his 1908Sociology, contains discussions of class, religion, ethnic, and gender relations that are highly relevant to contemporary sociological concerns. Simmel's argument is based on a notion of historical dynamic that interprets increasingly complex intersectionality as a sign of progressing civilization. The article establishes how Simmel describes 'the intersection of social cir…
Antisemitism, capitalism and the formation of sociological theory
Starting out from the proposition that modern antisemitism is a grotesque form of social theory that provides in its notion of 'Jewification' a critique of processes of capitalist modernization, Stoetzler points to the shared ground between classical sociological theory and modern antisemitism, and examines how their conceptual overlap influenced the ways in which sociologists responded to antisemitism or to the phenomena to which antisemitism al…
Cultural difference in the national state
Stoetzler explores a series of newspaper and journal articles published in Germany in 1879–81 that are part of what later came to be called the ‘Berlin Antisemitism Dispute’. In these articles, anti-Jewish remarks by the historian and right-wing liberal politician Heinrich von Treitschke were responded to by leading political and academic figures, including Theodor Mommsen, Moritz Lazarus and Ludwig Bamberger. Treitschke's texts have been seen as…
On How to Make Adorno Scream
Historical Materialism , volume 13:4 (193–215) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl Marcel Stoetzler On How to Make Adorno Scream: Some Notes on John Holloway's Change the World without Taking Power John Holloway's book is an essentially orthodox intervention – that is, a revision of the tradition by loyalty to its founding texts – concerned with transmitting an unredeemed theoretical achievement of the past i…
Postone's Marx
German modernity, barbarous Slavs and profit‐seekingJews
This paper examines emblematic texts by two important protagonists of post‐1848 liberalism inGermany,GustavFreytag andHeinrich vonTreitschke, focusing on their treatment ofJews andPoles. The paper analyses the social content of their statements and argues that the elements of anti‐Semitism and anti‐Slav racism that they contain were motivated by the specific kind of nationalist liberalism that frames their affirmation of the process of modernisat…
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement
From interacting systems to a system of divisions
This article examines a fundamental theoretical aspect of the discourse on 'intersectionality' in feminist and anti-racist social theory, namely, the question whether intersecting social divisions including those of sex, gender, race, class and sexuality are interacting but independent entities with autonomous ontological bases or whether they are different dimensions of the same social system that lack separate social ontologies and constitute e…
Holocaust memory in the twenty-first century
This article explores the meanings of ‘commemoration’ and ‘memory’ in the context of a Holocaust memory that is often described as global or globalised, or indeed of Holocaust commemoration. The authors examine the ‘globalised’ as well as the rather national aspects of some emblematic recent events in this context including the Stockholm Declaration and the first Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain and discuss some of the classical sociological the…
Subject trouble
In this essay I explore the role of dialectics for how social theory can take account of the problem of structure and agency, or, determination and freedom, in a critical and emancipatory way. I discuss the limits and possibilities of dialectical, and of anti-dialectical, criticisms of Hegelian dialectics. For this purpose, I look at Judith Butler’s discussion of dialectics and the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in her writings between 1987 ( Sub…
Imagined Boundaries and Borders
The article explores various ways collectivity boundaries and territorial borders, as well as the act of crossing them, are experienced and imagined, particularly by women. In doing so, the article draws on autobiographical material collected by email from women in about 25 different countries
Standpoint theory, situated knowledge and the situated imagination
The aim of the article is to further assess and develop feminist standpoint theory by introducing the notion of the `situated imagination' as constituting an important part of this theory as well as that of `situated knowledge'. The article argues that the faculty of the imagination constructs as well as transforms, challenges and supersedes both existing knowledge and social reality. However, like knowledge, it is crucial to theorize the imagina…
Leer a Butler Al Revés. Sobre en Lo Que Uno Se Convierte, en Lo Que Uno Se Incluye Y Lo Que Uno No Es
Este ensayo estudia el razonamiento de Judith Butler sobre los conceptos de sexo y género. Se analiza el cambio hacia una posición de rechazo a la tradición de la dialéctica hegeliana, y se sostiene que dicho cambio en la estructura lógica de sus trabajos debilita su crítica radical de la política de la identidad. Se sugiere que una lectura de los trabajos de Butler que incorpore temas de la Dialéctica negativa de Adorno puede potenciar el razona…
Postone's Marx
On How to Make Adorno Scream
Historical Materialism , volume 13:4 (193–215) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl Marcel Stoetzler On How to Make Adorno Scream: Some Notes on John Holloway's Change the World without Taking Power John Holloway's book is an essentially orthodox intervention – that is, a revision of the tradition by loyalty to its founding texts – concerned with transmitting an unredeemed theoretical achievement of the past i…
Subject trouble
In this essay I explore the role of dialectics for how social theory can take account of the problem of structure and agency, or, determination and freedom, in a critical and emancipatory way. I discuss the limits and possibilities of dialectical, and of anti-dialectical, criticisms of Hegelian dialectics. For this purpose, I look at Judith Butler’s discussion of dialectics and the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in her writings between 1987 ( Sub…
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement
Cultural difference in the national state
Stoetzler explores a series of newspaper and journal articles published in Germany in 1879–81 that are part of what later came to be called the ‘Berlin Antisemitism Dispute’. In these articles, anti-Jewish remarks by the historian and right-wing liberal politician Heinrich von Treitschke were responded to by leading political and academic figures, including Theodor Mommsen, Moritz Lazarus and Ludwig Bamberger. Treitschke's texts have been seen as…
The State, the Nation, and the Jews
Antisemitism, capitalism and the formation of sociological theory
Starting out from the proposition that modern antisemitism is a grotesque form of social theory that provides in its notion of 'Jewification' a critique of processes of capitalist modernization, Stoetzler points to the shared ground between classical sociological theory and modern antisemitism, and examines how their conceptual overlap influenced the ways in which sociologists responded to antisemitism or to the phenomena to which antisemitism al…
Modern antisemitism and the emergence of sociology
El Marx De Postone
Stoetzler explora el libro de Moishe Postone, Tiempo, Trabajo y Dominación Social, y su importancia en la discusión de la clase, los movimientos sociales y la teoría crítica del capitalismo y la modernidad. Aborda las categorías centrales de la obra de Postone, incluyendo el "trabajo abstracto" como función del trabajo en su papel de actividad socialmente mediadora en el capitalismo, la lucha de clases como elemento motor de éste, la dicotomía es…
Holocaust memory in the twenty-first century
This article explores the meanings of ‘commemoration’ and ‘memory’ in the context of a Holocaust memory that is often described as global or globalised, or indeed of Holocaust commemoration. The authors examine the ‘globalised’ as well as the rather national aspects of some emblematic recent events in this context including the Stockholm Declaration and the first Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain and discuss some of the classical sociological the…
Antisemitismus und Gesellschaftstheorie
On the possibility that the revolution that will end capitalism might fail to usher in communism
This article argues that further development of John Holloway's approach in Change the World without Taking Power and Crack Capitalism needs to address two objections: first, some of the tendencies and practices described by Holloway as 'screams' and 'cracks' may contribute to the emergence of communism (that is, universal human emancipation), but may not cause the demise of capitalism; second, some practices that are (subjectively or objectively…
Marx on modernity, revisited
German modernity, barbarous Slavs and profit‐seekingJews
This paper examines emblematic texts by two important protagonists of post‐1848 liberalism inGermany,GustavFreytag andHeinrich vonTreitschke, focusing on their treatment ofJews andPoles. The paper analyses the social content of their statements and argues that the elements of anti‐Semitism and anti‐Slav racism that they contain were motivated by the specific kind of nationalist liberalism that frames their affirmation of the process of modernisat…
Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology
Authority, Identity, Society
Situated Knowledge
The term “situated knowledge” was introduced in 1988 by Donna Haraway as an alternative to positivist notions of objectivity and relativism, although it has roots reaching far back in modern western philosophy. “Situated knowledge” has therefore become a major concept in feminist and antiracist theory
Intersectional Individuality
Georg Simmel's 'The intersection of social circles,' a chapter in his 1908Sociology, contains discussions of class, religion, ethnic, and gender relations that are highly relevant to contemporary sociological concerns. Simmel's argument is based on a notion of historical dynamic that interprets increasingly complex intersectionality as a sign of progressing civilization. The article establishes how Simmel describes 'the intersection of social cir…
From interacting systems to a system of divisions
This article examines a fundamental theoretical aspect of the discourse on 'intersectionality' in feminist and anti-racist social theory, namely, the question whether intersecting social divisions including those of sex, gender, race, class and sexuality are interacting but independent entities with autonomous ontological bases or whether they are different dimensions of the same social system that lack separate social ontologies and constitute e…
Beginning Classical Social Theory
Capitalismo, nación y corrosión social
El ensayo tiene como objetivo contribuir a una mejor comprensión del concepto de "antisemitismo de izquierda". Señala al "antiimperialismo", es decir, la resistencia nacionalista, a menudo culturalista, a la expansión global del modo de producción capitalista, como un contexto crucial del antisemitismo contemporáneo en el que los límites entre "derecha" e "izquierda" son a menudo borrosos. El argumento principal es que la dialéctica del capitalis…
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism
This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School’s theory of antisemitism and, employing this critical theory, investigates the presence of antisemitism in 20th- and 21st-century politics and society. Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism uncovers how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, as it frames its rejection of antisemitism in the critique of other aspects…
Sociology (20 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (7 works)