Selected Writings of Frigga Haug on Experience, Labour, and Critique

This book offers a compelling introduction to the groundbreaking work of one of Germany’s most influential feminist and Marxist thinkers, Frigga Haug. For over five decades, Haug’s writings have shaped critical debates on gender, subjectivity, and social transformation, yet much of her work has remained inaccessible to English‑speaking audiences until now.

This collection brings together a selection of her most thought‑provoking essays, making her profound insights available to a wider readership. At the core of Haug’s intellectual and political practice is a radical insistence on the interplay between subjective experience and structural oppression. Her essays explore how the oppressed are often complicit in reproducing their own subjugation, while also offering a vision of transformation rooted in everyday life. Through her nuanced engagement with philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, Haug challenges readers to see theory and practice as inseparable, inviting them to rethink feminist politics and social change in the context of contemporary struggles.

This volume is an essential resource for scholars, students, and critical thinkers in fields such as feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory, and provides a rich and transformative perspective on the challenges of our time.

Jeta Mulaj is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research focuses on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. She is the co‑founder and executive director of the Balkan Society for Theory and Practice and a research associate for the Society for Women of Ideas.

Alexandra Colligs is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel, Germany. Her research focuses are social philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind. She is the author of Identität und Befreiung (Campus 2021) and co‑editor of Kritische Theorie und Feminismus [Critical Theory and Feminism] (Suhrkamp 2022).

Cindy Zeiher (translator) is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator, and senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where she teaches modernist and postmodernist critical theories in the human services program. Her writings explore Freudian‑Lacanian interventions and interpretations relating to the contemporary nexus of subjectivity, ontology and desire.