André Kieserling

André Kieserling (* 1962 in Dortmund ) is a German sociologist . Since the summer semester of 2006 he has held the professorship for general sociology at Bielefeld University .

He studied philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt am Main and Bielefeld. Then he was initially appointed to a professorship for sociology at the University of Mainz .

Alongside Dirk Baecker , Elena Esposito , Peter Fuchs , Andreas Göbel , Armin Nassehi and Rudolf Stichweh, André Kieserling is one of the more well-known advancers of the ideas of the founder of sociological systems theory , Niklas Luhmanns , whose works he often edited as editor. Since 2015 he has headed the long-term project funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts for the indexing and editing of Niklas Luhmann's academic legacy.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Communication among those present. Studies on interaction systems , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999
Self-description and external description. Contributions to the sociology of sociological knowledge , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004

Editions

Niklas Luhmann, Universität als Milieu , Haux, Bielefeld 1992 [Own text: Foreword by the editor, pp. 7–15]
Niklas Luhmann, The Religion of Society , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000 [Own text: editorial note, pp. 357–359]
Niklas Luhmann, Die Politik der Gesellschaft , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000 [Own text: Editorische Note, pp. 435–439]
Niklas Luhmann, evolution of ideas. Contributions to the sociology of knowledge , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2008 [Own text: Editorial note, pp. 253–254]
(together with Ulrich Beck ): Locations of Sociology , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000

(together with Dirk Baecker, Elena Esposito, Peter Fuchs, Michael Hutter, William Rasch, Rudolf Stichweh and Gunther Teubner): Social systems . Journal for Sociological Theory , Lucius and Lucius, Stuttgart

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personal data
SURNAME	Kieserling, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dortmund