Citation

Loheit J. Argument 2018; 60(5): 718-729.

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(Copyright © 2018)

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Abstract

On the occasion of the Marx jubilee in 1983 Lothar Kühne, one of the most important architectural and design theorists in the GDR, writes his "Thinking Exercises on Marx", which reflect in an emancipatory perspective on the historical forms of social wealth, in relation to the future communist design of social living conditions. His "exercises" were not allowed to appear in the anniversary year. He publishes them in the year of his suicide in 1985. Looking back on this text, Loheit tries to reconstruct Kühne's reception of Marx and, in view of the postmodern aestheticization, to update the emancipatory elements of Kuuhne's theoretical work on aesthetic culture, which is oriented to the economy of time, the rational limitation of the material expenditure and a preserving appropriation of nature - a culture that can realize the Marxian vision of an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. © Das Argument 329/2018.

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