Helmut Schoeck

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Helmut Schoeck (born July 3, 1922 in Graz , † February 2, 1993 ) was an Austrian - German sociologist and publicist .

Life

Born in Graz, Helmut Schoeck came to Baden-Württemberg at school age . There he graduated from high school in Ludwigsburg in 1941 and studied medicine , philosophy and psychology in Munich and Tübingen . The study Karl Mannheim as knowledge sociologist he received his doctorate in 1948 at Eduard Spranger Dr. phil.

For fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965, he was a university professor in the United States . In 1953 he was made full professor of philosophy in Fairmont , West Virginia, then taught for two years at Yale University and moved to Emory University in Atlanta as full professor of sociology . During this time he brought his host country closer to the German-speaking reading public, for example with the book USA. Motifs and Structures (1958). In addition, he transferred in 1951 under the title of sociology of religion and Joachim wax Sociology of Religion into German.

In 1965 he returned to Germany to take up the chair for sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , which he held until 1990. With the also internationally acclaimed book Der Neid . A theory of society that first appeared in 1966 by Verlag Karl Alber became known to Schoeck. Since the book is written in a jargon-free language, the impact reached far beyond academic circles. The bestseller has been reprinted several times and translated into more than ten languages. Another standard work has been his sociological dictionary, which has been expanded and supplemented again and again since 1969 .

Schoeck was a sharp critic of since the 1960s -Jahren emerging left Zeitgeist , which he, together with its effects in numerous books, mostly very polemical , attack. Above all, political developments in education , medicine , anti-capitalism and development aid were the target of his criticism, which he developed out of his conservative - liberal worldview. "Schoeck is a trained provocateur, he knows how to use the rhetorical means," said Gertrud Höhler in a review of his book Student Manipulation in the Deutsche Zeitung . Critics accused him of not acting constructively himself, but primarily reacting to the social plans of others.

Schoeck, who had also been a columnist for Welt am Sonntag for 20 years , died on February 2, 1993 of complications from cancer .

Fonts (selection)

  • Karl Mannheim as a sociologist of knowledge , dissertation, 1948
  • Nietzsche's philosophy of the “human-all-too-human”. Critical presentation of the world of aphorisms of the middle creative period as an attempt to reorient the overall picture , 1948
  • Sociology. History of their problems . 1952. 2nd, substantially revised and expanded edition under the title The Sociology and the Societies. Problem view and problem solving from the beginning to the present . 1964. Orbis academicus Volume I / 3. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich
  • UNITED STATES. Motifs and structures , 1958
  • What does politically impossible mean? , 1959
  • Scientism and Values , 1960
  • Relativism and the Study of Man , 1961
  • Financing Medical Care , 1962
  • Psychiatry and Responsibility , 1962
  • Envy. A theory of society . Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1966, 2nd edition 1968 (later title: The envy and society )
  • Small sociological dictionary , 1969 (from 1971: sociological dictionary )
  • Is performance indecent? , 1971 (expanded several times)
  • Beware of desk clerks. Politics and the press in the Federal Republic of Germany , 1972
  • Development Assistance. Political Humanity , 1972
  • The lust for a guilty conscience , 1973
  • The Business of Pessimism , 1975
  • Student manipulation , 1976
  • The Right to Inequality , 1979
  • The doctor between politics and patient , 1983
  • The twelve errors of our century , 1985
  • Child disorder. The Abused Childhood - Retraining to Another Republic , 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Schoeck, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1993