Helmut Dubiel

Helmut Dubiel (2007)

Helmut Dubiel (born June 30, 1946 in Essen ; † November 3, 2015 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sociologist who taught at the University of Giessen .

Life

From 1968 to 1973 Helmut Dubiel studied sociology and philosophy in Bielefeld and Bochum . In 1973 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Theodor W. Adorno and Arnold Gehlen . From 1973 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology in Munich . In 1978 Dubiel completed his habilitation in Bielefeld. From 1981 to 1983 he was a research assistant with Jürgen Habermas at the Max Planck Institute for Social Sciences (until 1980 Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world ) in Starnberg near Munich. At the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research , Helmut Dubiel was a research assistant from 1983 to 1989 and its director from 1989 to 1997 . From 1992 to 2009 he was a professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, before he was retired from the university as part of a symposium entitled “Critique of the 'post-democratic' analyzes of the present”.

Dubiel had had Parkinson's disease since 1993 . In 2006 he described his experiences with the disease and deep brain stimulation in the book Tief im Hirn . He was married twice and had a son and a daughter.

Dubiel died in November 2015 at the age of 69 as a result of an accident.

Works

Books

• Deep in the brain . Kunstmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88897-451-8
• The Lesser Evil . Together with Gabriel Motzkin , New York 2002
• La teoria critica: ayer e hoy . Mexico, 2000
• Nobody is free from history: The National Socialist rule in the debates of the German Bundestag . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-446-19650-1
• Democracy and guilt. Munich 1999
• Uncertainty and politics . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-11891-9 (= Edition Suhrkamp 1891 = NF Volume 891).
• Economy, Law and the State under National Socialism. Analyzes by the Institute for Social Research 1939–1942. (As editor with Max Horkheimer as co-author.) European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-434-00469-6 .
• The democratic question . Frankfurt am Main 1990 (with Günter Frankenberg and Ulrich Roedel)
• Critical Theory of Society. An introductory reconstruction from the beginnings in the Horkheimer district to Habermas . Munich 1988
• Theory and Politics . MIT Press 1986
• Scientific Organization and Political Experience: Studies in Early Critical Theory . Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-07858-5 (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbücher Wissenschaft , Volume 258, habilitation thesis at Bielefeld University , Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Psychology, 1978).
• Leo Löwenthal - I never wanted to take part - An autobiographical conversation with Helmut Dubiel. Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-11014-4 .
• Identity and Institution: Studies on Modern Social Philosophers Bertelsmann-Universitätsverlag, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-571-09145-0 (= Concepts of Social Science , Volume 9).

Essays

• Adorno . In: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
• Uncivil society . In: social world . Jhg. 52, 2001
• Integration through conflict . In: KZfSS . Special issue 39, 1999
• About the Germans . In: The time . 22/1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Dubiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Former website of Helmut Dubiel at the University of Giessen
• Rudolf Walther: Obituary: Sociologist Helmut Dubiel. “Nobody is free from history.” In: the daily newspaper of November 9, 2015
• Andreas Langenohl: Obituary for Prof. Dr. phil. Helmut Dubiel. On: uni-giessen.de from November 15, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmut Dubiel obituary , FAZ , November 14, 2015.
2. ↑ Entry Helmut Dubiel on kunstmann.de , accessed on April 29, 2019.
3. ↑ Susanne Kutter: Helmut Dubiel: "I felt like a guinea pig" . Wirtschaftswoche , March 11, 2015.
4. ↑ Helmut Dubiel passed away . German Society for Sociology , November 5, 2015.
5. ↑ "At a subway station he fell on the tracks in a wheelchair." Claus Leggewie in: Uncertainty and Enlightenment. Obituary in Frankfurter Rundschau from November 10, 2016, p. 31.
   Wheelchair users seriously injured when falling on rails in Frankfurt. from October 12, 2015.
6. ↑ Jan-Holger Kirsch: Review of: Dubiel, Helmut: Nobody is free from history. , in: H-Soz-u-Kult , July 21, 1999, therein reference to the review by Klaus Naumann in: Die Zeit , March 25, 1999.
7. ↑ About the Germans (full text)