Ferdinand Tönnies job

The Ferdinand-Tönnies-Arbeitsstelle (FTA) is a sociological research facility at the University of Klagenfurt . It has existed since 1982 , but was located at the University of Hamburg until 2003 .

aims

She considers the discoveries of Ferdinand Tönnies to be important and wants to use his theories in shaping the current community. So it shouldn't just be about, it should be worked with Tönnies.

history

Hamburg 1982-2002

The FTA was formally founded by Alexander Deichsel in the 1982 summer semester as a “job” at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg . The first research assistants were Rolf Fechner and Rainer Waßner . From the beginning she worked scientifically and personally with the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft (FTG) in Kiel and its president Lars Clausen .

In the spirit of Tönnies as a scholar and comrade of his time (s), scientific and daily activities were developed. As a solid basis for the intended effect, an edition of Ferdinand Tönnies' work was discussed early on .

The publication series "Materials of the Ferdinand Tönnies Workplace" (Ed. Rolf Fechner) presented as volume 1 a bibliography on Tönnies secondary literature. In 1984 the FTA held a workshop in Husum on the relationship between Theodor Storm and Ferdinand Tönnies (vol. 2: “The poet and the sociologist”, edited by Rolf Fechner). In 1987 an international colloquium was organized at the Grenzakademie Sankelmark (“Local Culture and World Society”, the results of which were published as Vol. 9., edited by Alexander Deichsel / Rolf Fechner). The 'Hamburg School' of the Tönnies interpretation emphasized the structural features of the Tönnies discoveries. The curriculum of the Institute for Sociology at the Hamburg University of Hamburg regularly offered opportunities to educate yourself on the basis of Tönnies' work. A long-term teaching and research program led to numerous theses.

In 1985 Rolf Fechner presented a list of Tönnies' writings (expanded in 1992 as "Ferdinand Tönnies catalog of works" in the series "Tönnies in conversation" ) and published "Materials for the edition plan of a Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition". In 1988, with the help of the FTA, numerous researchers at the Akademie Sankelmark designed the Tönnies Complete Edition (TG), which in 1990 became the basis of the 24-volume TG of the Kiel Ferdinand Tönnies Society . In this context, the FTA took over the edition of Tönnies' most extensive work, the “ Critique of Public Opinion ” (1922), which appeared in 2002.

In 1989, Alexander Deichsel gave lectures on German cultural sociology , in particular Ferdinand Tönnies, at the Collège de France in Paris , and from now on regularly on Tönnies and its effects at the St. Petersburg State University . A work project within the partnership of the universities of St. Petersburg / Hamburg promoted the social science training of executives in Russia ( Rimma Schpakowa / sociology, M. Kagan / philosophy, A. Deichsel, R. Waßner, A. Postler, T. Lidokhover). In St. Petersburg in 2003 Rimma Shpakova published “Tovarnyj znak v Evrope i Rossii voprosy teorii i istorii Nemeckaja sociologija / German sociology” with representative contributions on Tönnies.

Alexander Deichsel gave his report on the closure of the Ferdinand Tönnies job in Hamburg in 2002: "The explosion of the social atom - community and society at Ferdinand Tönnies."

Klagenfurt since 2003

In 2003, the position was transferred to the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Advanced Training at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , where it was established under the direction of Rolf Fechner in the “Technology and Science Research” institute.

Together with the Ferdinand Tönnies Society and the Institute for Sociology at the University of Kiel, she organized the “IV. International Tönnies Symposium " (published as " Public opinion between new science and new religion. Ferdinand Tönnies' "Critique of Public Opinion" in the International Discussion ", edited by R. Fechner / A. Bammé / L. Clausen, series " Tönnies in conversation ”, Vol. 3, Profil-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2005). Volumes 7 (1905–1906, edited by Arno Bammé and Rolf Fechner) and Volume 10 (1916–1918, edited by Arno Mohr and Rolf Fechner) were also edited as part of the Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition.

In the meantime, Tönnies' sociological writings from the years 1889–1905 have been published by Profil Verlag as volume 13 of the “materials of the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Arbeitsstelle”, there also as volume 14 of Tönnies' writings and reviews on anthropology and as volume 15 of Tönnies' writings Friedrich Schiller on the occasion of his 250th birthday with an afterword in memory of Schiller by the Büchner Prize winner Josef Winkler . In 2010, Tönnies' writings and reviews on religion followed as volume 16, and volume 17 was followed by the monograph “Geist der Neuzeit”; also in 2010 the "Writings on State Sociology" appeared. In 2011 the “Writings on the Hamburg port workers' strike” appeared as volume 19. Further writings have been published to date, including a. the monograph “Philosophical Terminology in Psychological-Sociological View” (2011). Arno Bammé is the editor .

Web links

Ferdinand Tönnies Society, Kiel

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The Ferdinand Tönnies job at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg. Foundation - Services - Future . In: Tönnies-Forum , Volume 13, Issue 2/2004, pp. 80–86.
↑ Rainer Waßner and Rolf Fechner, Das Delta der Tönnies research. The Ferdinand Tönnies workplace in Hamburg . In: Tönnies-Forum, issue 2/1995, pp. 60–68.

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[Arbeitsstelle-1] A ^b The Ferdinand Tönnies job at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg. Foundation - Services - Future . In: Tönnies-Forum , Volume 13, Issue 2/2004, pp. 80–86.

[2] Rainer Waßner and Rolf Fechner, Das Delta der Tönnies research. The Ferdinand Tönnies workplace in Hamburg . In: Tönnies-Forum, issue 2/1995, pp. 60–68.