Alexander Schuller

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Alexander Schuller (born July 15, 1934 in Beppu , Japan ) is a German sociologist .

Schuller grew up in China , mainly Hong Kong , until 1941 . In 1954 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in the USA . He then studied in Munich, Paris, London and Berlin. In 1973 he did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a study on curriculum and self-determination to become a Dr. phil.

Since 1975 he has taught as a professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include the sociology of education and the sociology of medicine . He was head of the Institute for Social Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. Research professorships took him to Princeton and Harvard in the USA .

He is co-editor of the Paragrana series at Akademie-Verlag . Together with the sociologist Jutta Anna Kleber , he gave the anthologies Gier . On the anthropology of addiction (1993) and Verschemmte Welt. Eating and drinking historically and anthropologically (1994). Schuller coined the expression masturbation of sexuality . In 1999 he took part in the debate on Peter Sloterdijk's rules for the human park and defended Sloterdijk against accusations of having betrayed the investigation.

Publications (selection)

• with Nikolaus Heim: The Coded Body. To the future of the genetic past. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich / Munich.
• as Ed .: Medical Sociology. A study book. Stuttgart 1992.
• as Ed .: The other force. To the renaissance of evil. Berlin 1993.
• as publisher: Verschemmte Welt. Eating and drinking historically and anthropologically. 1994.
• Hellas in the semi-detached house. Parents and children no longer need each other. About the death of the family. In: FAZ. July 3, 2001.

Web links

• Photo by A. Schuller
• The good is gone. The Berlin sociologist Alexander Schuller on the return of evil.
• Vengeance is mine . How good, how bad was the radical left? A look into the abyss. In: Die Zeit, April 29, 1998.
• Instead of a German navel gaze, the view from outside Giles MacDonogh : "After the Reich" and Nicholas Baker : "Human Smoke". Review on Deutschlandradio , June 22, 2008, accessed on February 24, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sloterdijk, the enlightener . Anyone who addresses the nefariousness of modernity feels the fists of the spiritual people. In: Die Welt, September 25, 1999, p. 11; The world: man creates himself . The Sloterdijk debate discussed what is reality: the new man. In: Die Welt, October 15, 1999.