TY - JOUR AU - Lotz, Christian PY - 2014/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Klasse und Gewalt: Anmerkungen zum Verschwinden des Klassenbegriffs in Kritischer Theorie und Post-Marxismus JF - PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft JA - PROKLA VL - 44 IS - 176 SE - Artikel außerhalb des Schwerpunkts DO - 10.32387/prokla.v44i176.163 UR - https://prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/163 SP - 383 – 401 AB - <p>In this essay I briefly analyze why the concept of class has disappeared in recent social philosophy, such as in the philosophies of Badiou, Negri/Hardt, and Honneth. I argue that a change in the foundations of their social ontologies has led to the dismissal of the concept of class and, in addition, I argue that these changes are unwarranted, since they lead to a loss of a critical concept of society. Then, in a second part, I argue that the concept of class deserves a systematic status within a theory of capitalist sociality, especially since the concept of class can be traced back genetically to violent social relations that are derived from the capitalist social order.</p> ER -