Helmut Willke

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Helmut Willke (born May 30, 1945 in Tailfingen ) is Professor of Global Governance and Vice President for Research at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen with visiting professorships in Washington, DC , Geneva and Vienna .

Life

Willke, who grew up in Tettnang , studied law and sociology in Tübingen and Cologne from 1968 . In 1975, he was in Tübingen with a dissertation on "the status and criticism of modern theory of human rights, steps to a normative system theory" doctorate . The supervisor of the work was the constitutional lawyer Günter Dürig . As early as 1982 he was offered a professorship at Bielefeld University while he was still doing his habilitation . In 1982 he completed his habilitation in Cologne with his work on "Disenchantment of the State".

The scientific work of Helmut Willke is of particular importance for sociological systems theory . Willke has brought about further developments of Niklas Luhmann's theoretical work by expanding it in the area of ​​planning and decision theory to include aspects of social control. Willke assumes that state control competencies exist, but are limited by the complexity of modern societies. In particular, the system-theoretical core theorems of autopoiesis and operational cohesion make it difficult to act across system boundaries, so that control performance, according to Willke, primarily arises from designing the framework conditions in such a way that other systems take them up as action-stimulating (context control).

Since the beginning of the decade (Atopia series) Willke has primarily dealt with questions of the sociology of knowledge and global governance . In contrast to Luhmann, he does not assume a global society, because although global communicative accessibility is given, the control options of global politics are not sufficiently developed. Instead, Willke assumes the existence of so-called lateral world systems, which provide specific control services for each global functional system and are comparable in their differentiation with the functional systems of national societies.

Awards

Publications

  • Disenchantment of the state. Reflections on a social control theory , Königstein / Ts. (Athenaeum) 1983.
  • System theory of developed societies , Munich 1989; 2nd edition 1993.
  • Irony of the state. Basic lines of a state theory of a polycentric society , Frankfurt a. M. 1992 (Suhrkamp).
  • Systems theory I: An introduction to basic problems , Stuttgart 1982 (Fischer UTB); 6th edition 2000.
  • Systems theory II: intervention theory. Introduction to the theory of intervention in complex social systems , Stuttgart 1994 (Fischer, UTB); 3rd edition 1999.
  • System Theory III: Control Theory , Stuttgart 1995 (Fischer, UTB); 3rd edition 2001.
  • State supervision . Frankfurt a. M. 1997 (Suhrkamp).
  • Systemic knowledge management (with case studies), Stuttgart 1998 (UTB); 2nd revised edition 2001.
  • Atopia. Studies on the atopic society , Frankfurt (Suhrkamp) 2001.
  • Dystopia. Studies on the Crisis of Knowledge in Modern Society , Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 2002.
  • Heterotopia. Studies on the Crisis of the Order of Modern Societies , Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 2003.
  • Introduction to systemic knowledge management , Heidelberg (Carl-Auer) 2004.
  • Symbolic systems. Outline of a sociological theory , Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft) 2005.
  • Global Governance , Bielefeld 2006 (transcript).
  • Smart governance. Governing the Global Knowledge Society , Frankfurt a. M./New York (Campus) 2007.
  • with Gerhard Willke : Political Governance of Capitalism: A Reassessment Beyond the Global Crisis , 2012, ISBN 978-1781006184 .
  • Democracy in Times of Confusion , Berlin 2014 (Suhrkamp), ISBN 978-3518297315 .
  • Decentralized democracy. Prolegomena for the revision of political governance , Berlin (Suhrkamp) 2016.
  • Complex freedom. Configuration problems of a human right in the globalized modernity. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4564-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Helmut Willke. In: coaching-magazin.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Willke, H. (1975). Status and criticism of the more recent fundamental rights theory: steps towards a normative systems theory. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot.
personal data
SURNAME Willke, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tailfingen