Alois Hahn

Alois Hahn

Alois Hahn (born July 28, 1941 in Salzkotten , Westphalia ) is a German sociologist and emeritus of the University of Trier since 2010. His scientific focus is the sociology of religion, the sociology of the body, confession and biography, the sociology of everyday life and lifestyle.

Life

Alois Hahn passed his Abitur at the Friedrich-Harkort-Gymnasium in Herdecke / Ruhr in 1961 and was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . 1961–63 he studied sociology, philosophy, political science and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, then until 1967 sociology, philosophy, ethnology and economics with Theodor W. Adorno , Ludwig von Friedeburg , Jürgen Habermas , Thomas Luckmann and Friedrich Tenbruck (sociology); Eike Haberland , Jensen and Schmitz (ethnology); Houses and Sauermann (economics) at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1967 he received his doctorate there summa cum laude with Tenbruck, Habermas and Haberland as Dr. phil. ( Attitudes towards death and their social conditioning. A sociological study ). In the same year he married the elementary school teacher Erika Loll.

1967–71 he worked as a research assistant at the Sociological Seminar of the University of Tübingen and in the winter semester 1970/71 received a teaching position for “empirical social research” at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . 1971–73 he was a lecturer in sociology and politics at the Pedagogical University of Esslingen / Neckar, received a teaching position for sociology at the University of Tübingen in 1971 (until 1974) and completed his habilitation on February 5, 1973 at the University of Tübingen for sociology ( systems of meaning knowledge . Prolegomena to a sociology of the humanities , reviewers: Friedrich Tenbruck and Friedhelm Neidhardt ).

In 1973 he was called to Trier, Esslingen and a C-4 professorship at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, which he refused. In 1974 he was offered a full professorship (H 4) at the University of Trier-Kaiserslautern; he accepted and was appointed full professor of sociology on June 20, 1974. 1981–83 he was Dean of Faculty IV and 2000–2004 “ Ombudsman for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice” of the university. In 1983 he was awarded the Fritz Thyssen Foundation prize "for the best social science article" of the 1982 journal for the article on the sociology of confession and other forms of institutionalized confessions: self-thematization and the process of civilization . 1983–84 research and teaching stay in Paris at the " Maison des Sciences de l'Homme " at the invitation of Victor Karady and at the " École Pratique des Hautes Études " at the invitation of Jacques Le Brun. In 1985, he turned down a call to Bayreuth.

In March 1986 a teaching and research stay followed at the Paris École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales at the invitation of Pierre Bourdieu , then in 1987 Directeur d'Études Associé at the 5th section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études . In 1991 he received an offer at the University of Hamburg , which he refused. In 1992 he was made a member of the Comité National des Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in 1993 he was visiting professor at Clark University in Worcester (MA, USA) and in 1994 he became a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. Other honorable tasks were in 1994 a visiting professorship at the University of Paris I ( Panthéon-Sorbonne ), in 1995 the appointment as professeur associé at the Center des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) at the École des Hautes Études in Paris, as well as membership in the expert commission for Romance studies at the State Rectors' Conference Baden-Württemberg as part of specialist development planning and a research stay in the USA (Clark University). In 1997 he became a reviewer for the German Research Foundation . In 1999 he became a member of the " Collège Doctoral des Universités de Strasbourg ". In 2002 he held the Otto von Freising visiting professorship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . In 2004/5 Prof. Hahn was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2008 he held the Niklas Luhmann visiting professorship in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University .

Alois Hahn retired in the 2009 summer semester. His successor at the University of Trier is Martin Endress .

From 2009 to 2011, Alois Hahn and Hans-Georg Soeffner headed a working group at the “Humanities Academy” of the German National Academic Foundation . From 2009 to 2010 he was a substitute professor at the University of Lucerne and was a visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt in 2010, 2011 and 2012 . In 2015 he was given a teaching position at the University of Lucerne.

Publications

• Attitudes to death and their social relativity. A sociological study , Stuttgart (Enke) 1968
• On the sociology of confession and other forms of institutionalized confessions. Self-thematization and civilization process. in KZfSS Vol. 34, 1982, pp. 407-434; again in Jürgen Friedrichs & Karl Ulrich Mayer & Wolfgang Schluchter, Ed .: Sociological Theory and Empiricism. KZfSS. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 ISBN 3531131397 pp. 150–177
• With Herbert Willems: Identity and Modernity. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1999
• Constructions of Self, World and History. Essays on cultural sociology . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2000
• Reminder and forecast . Leske & Budrich , Opladen 2003
• The happiness of the gourmet , in: Alfred Bellebaum & Hans Braun, ed .: Sources of happiness - happiness as an art of living . Ergon, Würzburg 2004, pp. 163-181
• Norm and crisis of communication . Lit, Berlin 2006.
• Sociology of Emotions , University of Lucerne, Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences, Sociological Seminar (Ed.). Lucerne, 2010 (Working paper of the Sociological Seminar 02/2010). URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-371647
• Body and Memory , VS, Verl. Für Sozialwiss., 1st edition, Wiesbaden 2010
• Sociology of love , in: Werner Schüßler and Marc Röbel, eds .: Love - more than a feeling: Philosophy - theology - individual sciences . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, pp. 353–371
• City-Country-River. Social change in a regional context (together with: Waldemar Vogelgesang, Johannes Kopp and Rüdiger Jacob), Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018

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1. ↑ European Academy of Sciences and Arts ( Memento from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) → Alois Hahn → 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile of Alois Hahn at the University of Trier