Heinz Gess

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Heinz Gess (born January 7, 1945 in Marl ) is a German sociologist and publisher of the social science online journal Critique Network - Journal for Critical Theory of Society .

Life

Heinz Gess - coming from a family of miners - studied sociology, economics and social psychology at the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld. In 1977 he received his doctorate in Bielefeld on the subject of the changeability (falsifiability) of subjective systems - a contribution to the theory of cognitive consistency (reviewers: Joachim Matthes , Günter Albrecht , Niklas Luhmann ). From 1978 to 2010 Gess was professor of sociology at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences .

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Gess repeatedly attracted greater attention through political interventions, which were primarily related to the online journal Critique Network , which he has published since 2005 . In 2008 the national press ( taz , Jungle World , Die Zeit ) reported on the unsuccessful attempt by the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences to use disciplinary proceedings to prevent him from criticizing the university's approving attitude towards the former lecturer and National Socialist Werner Georg Haverbeck . In 2010 Gess was temporarily placed under police protection after the President of the Islamic Religious Community in Berlin , Abdurrahim Vural, called in a public press conference for the publisher of the criticism network to be severely punished . The appeal was preceded by the publication of articles critical of Islamism in the Critique Network .

research

Gess was initially strongly influenced by the philosophy of science and critical rationalism . In this phase, his focus on "sociology of deviant behavior and social control" and "extracurricular socialization" was primarily based on sociological action theory ( Max Weber , Alfred Schütz , Robert K. Merton ) and the theory of symbolic interaction ( George Herbert Mead ) .

From 1985 he turned away from critical rationalism and made the critical theory of society following Theodor W. Adorno , Max Horkheimer , Herbert Marcuse , Leo Löwenthal as well as the associated "Critique of Political Economy" ( Karl Marx ) and critically applied psychoanalysis the focus of his teaching and research. Since this reorientation, his research topics have been: ideology and religion criticism, criticism of fashionable psychologies and therapeutic practices,  anti-Semitism research and criticism, neo-fascism, criticism of the modern capitalist mode of production.

Publications

Monographs

  • From fascism to new thinking. zu Klampen, Lüneburg 1994, ISBN 3-924245-33-9 .
  • The falsifiability of subjective systems. A contribution to the theory of cognitive consistency. Bielefeld University 1977

Articles (selection)

  • CG Jung's anti-Semitism during the "turning point" and the call for a "new 1933", in: K. Weber (ed.), Unteruntersubjekte. The contribution of German psychology to the fascization of the subject, Argument Verlag, Hamburg, Berlin 1998
  • CG Jung and the fascist “Weltanschauung”. Racial Psychology and Anti-Semitism, in: contradiction 32/1996, Zurich
  • The new man as an ideology of dehumanization. On Bhagwan's and Bahro's archetype, in: G. Kern. L. Traynor (ed.), Esoteric Seduction. Attack on reason and freedom, IBDK-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1995
  • Everything is getting through. Jung's psychology of self-preservation, in: Das Argument 209, Volume 37/1995
  • Bhagwan's sect and the structure of fascist propaganda, in: AKAZ - Journal for Criticism of Religion and Time, No. 8/1995
  • Jung's “practically correct” psychology of the “autonomous mind”, in: Psychoanalysis in contradiction, vol. 7.14 / 1995
  • Child abuse, patriarchal violence and its reconciliation in the romanticism of the collective unconscious, in: Psychologische Literaturumschau 1/1995, Bessau Verlag
  • Positive criticism as disposal of the past, in: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, Vol. 18, 1/1994, Marbuse Verlag Frankfurt a. M.
  • Anti-Judaism with Franz Alt. The “new man” on an anti-Semitic ticket, in: ÖkoLinX, Ökologische Left magazine No. 13, 1/1994
  • The new intellectual right. The unsuccessful accounting with the critical theory, in: Utopie Kreativ, No. 43/44/1994
  • The alternative suicide, in: AKAZ - magazine for religious and contemporary criticism No. 6/1994
  • The narcissism of the 68s and the critical theory of society, in: Leviathan, Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften 21. Jg., 3/1993, Westdeutscher Verlag
  • Health as freedom from symptoms , in: Das Argument 197, 35 Jg./1993, Argument Verlag Berlin, Hamburg

Editing

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FH disputes about neo-Nazi , Die Tageszeitung from August 5, 2008 (accessed on January 31, 2015).
  2. ↑ Jana Brenner: Shut up, Mr. Lecturer! Termination, disciplinary proceedings - critical lecturers have nothing to laugh about, as two cases in Bielefeld and Berlin show. , Jungle World, October 23, 2008 (accessed January 31, 2015).
  3. ↑ A Bielefeld professor shouldn't speak because he is telling the truth , in Die Zeit , 34/2008 (accessed on January 31, 2015).
  4. ↑ Hubertus Gärtner: Islam criticism busy investigators , Mindener Tageblatt , January 21, 2010 (accessed on January 31, 2015).
  5. ^ Critics of Islam threatened - Solidarity with Heinz Gess! ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. EuropeNews , January 20, 2010 ( accessed January 31, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / europenews.dk

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personal data
SURNAME Gess, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl