Gerhard Göhler

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Gerhard Göhler (born February 18, 1941 in Breslau ) is a German political scientist specializing in political theory and the history of ideas .

Scientific career

After Göhler graduated from high school in 1960 and then did military service until 1962, he studied philosophy , politics and history at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin . From 1969 to 1972 he worked as a research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute employs his promotion to Dr. phil. took place in 1971. Although Göhler did his habilitation in political science in 1976 , he was already an assistant professor at the Otto Suhr Institute from 1972. From 1978 to 2006 he was a professor at the chair for political theory and the history of ideas at the Free University of Berlin (Otto Suhr Institute). Even after his retirement, Göhler remained active at the university: for example at the Collaborative Research Center 700 (head of subproject A2 "Soft control: Social science power theories and governing in areas of limited statehood") and as a lecturer in courses.

From 1982 to 1984 Göhler was dean of the political science department at the Free University of Berlin and from 1985 to 1991 board member of the German Association for Political Science .

Together with Hubertus Buchstein and Bodo Zeuner , he campaigned for research into the history of German political science from the Weimar Republic to the post-war period. In this context, he made a particular contribution to the presentation of the history of political science in Berlin and the political scientist Ernst Fraenkels . Göhler also attracted attention through his attempt to formulate a general theory of political institutions. His model of institutional configuration emerged from his extensive preoccupation with institutional theory, political representation and concepts of power . In doing so, Göhler attempts to capture both volitional control activities and symbolic integration functions of political institutions. In this context, his analytical distinction between transitive power and intransitive power has also become important.

Publications

As an author (selection)

  • Institution - power - representation. What political institutions stand for and how they work. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4696-5 .
  • The reduction of dialectics by Marx. Structural changes in the dialectical development in the critique of political economy (= history and theory of politics. Sub-series B: Theory. Vol. 3). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-912150-1 (also: Berlin, Free University, habilitation paper).

As (co-) editor (selection)

  • Ulrike Höppner and Sybille De La Rosa: Soft control. Studies on steering through discursive practices, arguments and symbols (= publications on governance research. Vol. 17). Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4304-2 .
  • with Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen and Christian Walther : Power and Media: on the relationship between politics and communication. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007, ISBN 978-363-15642-8-8 .
  • with Hubertus Buchstein: Political Theory and Political Science. VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15108-3 .
  • with Mattias Iser and Ina Kerner: Political Theory. 22 contested terms for introduction (= university pocket books 2594 Political Theory ). VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2594-1 (2nd, updated and expanded edition, as: Political Theory. 25 contested terms for an introduction. Ibid 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16246-1 ).
  • Public Power - Public Power. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3978-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Göhler, Bodo Zeuner (ed.), Continuities and Breaks in German Political Science , Baden-Baden 1991, therein his own contribution The re-establishment of the German University of Politics - Maintenance of Tradition or New Scientific Beginning? , Pp. 144-164.
  2. ^ Hubertus Buchstein, Gerhard Göhler, The History of Political Science in Berlin. In: Bodo von Greiff (Ed.): The OSI: Study Guide for the Department of Political Science. Berlin 1994, pp. 12-27
  3. ↑ Göhler, Gerhard (1997): Summary and Conclusions: the institutional configuration, in: ders. (Ed.), Institution - Power - Representation: What political institutions stand for and how they work, Baden-Baden, pp. 579-599.
  4. ↑ Göhler, Gerhard (2013): Transitive and intransitive Macht, in: Brodocz, André / Hammer Stefanie (ed.): Variationen der Macht, Baden-Baden, pp. 225–242.
  5. ↑ Göhler, Gerhard (2009): 'Power to' and 'power over', in: Clegg, Stewart R./Haugaard, Mark (eds.): The Sage handbook of power, 27-39.
personal data
SURNAME Göhler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw