Michael Heinrich

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Michael Heinrich
Michael Heinrich in May 2018
Born	1957 (age 66–67) Heidelberg
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin
Notable work	The Science of Value (1991), An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital (2004)
Main interests	Karl Marx, value-form, critique of political economy, Michel Foucault

Michael Heinrich (born 1957, Heidelberg) is a German historian of philosophy and political scientist, specialising in the critical study of the development of Karl Marx's thought. Heinrich's work, influenced by Elmar Altvater and the Neue Marx-Lektüre of Hans-Georg Backhaus and Helmut Reichelt is characterised by its focus on the points of ambivalence and inconsistency in the work of Marx. Through this theme, Heinrich challenges both the closed system he identifies with "worldview Marxism", as well as teleological narratives of Marx's intellectual development throughout his life.^[1] He is best known for his 1991 study of the theoretical field of classical political economy The Science of Value (German: Die Wissenschaft vom Wert), his introductory text to the critique of political economy An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital, and his ongoing project to produce a multi-volume biography of Marx, of which the first volume of a projected four was published in 2020.