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Gerhard Stapelfeldt
Gerhard Stapelfeldt (born October 26, 1947, Hamburg, Germany) is a German sociologist. He was a university teacher at University of Hamburg until December 2010.
In 1979 Stapelfeldt published his PhD Thesis, a reconstruction and interpretation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital with special reference to Marx's further studies and writings. Following this interpretation he then put its consequences into practice by developing a programme of depicting and interpreting political economy, from mercantilism, to Liberalism, imperialism and finally Neoliberalism.
The focal point
Böttcher/Ulrike Flader/Gerald Gönen/Paul Kramer (Hgg.): Wege zur Reflexion. Unbehagen – Aufklärung – Gesellschaftskritik. Für Gerhard Stapelfeldt zum 60. Geburtstag, Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008,