Henning Laux

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Henning Laux (* 1979 in Quiigart ) is a German sociologist and university professor .

Life

Laux studied political science , philosophy and business administration at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and social sciences at the University of Glasgow . From 2006 he worked as a research assistant at Hartmut Rosa's chair for general and theoretical sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . There he was in 2012 with the Rosa and Uwe Schimank supervised dissertation sociology in the age of composition: coordination of a relational dynamic network theory to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 2012, Laux was a research associate at Schimank in the sociological theory department at the University of Bremen . During his time in Bremen, he was also head of the DFG research project Desynchronized Society? Political challenges at the interfaces of the social . He was employed in Bremen until 2017. After Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bremen, Hamburg and Chemnitz when he took to April 1, 2018 a call to the Chair of General Sociology with a focus on sociological theories of the Technical University of Chemnitz on. There he received the teaching award of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences in 2017.

Since January 2017, Laux has also been the spokesman for the “Sociological Theory” section of the German Society for Sociology .

Works (selection)

  • with Karina Becker, Lars Gertenbach and Tilman Reitz (eds.): Grenzverschiebungen des Kapitalismus. Contested spaces and places of resistance , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-40849-1 .
  • with Tanja Bogusz (Ed.): Why pragmatism? Special issue of the Berlin Journal for Sociology , 3/4 2013.
  • Sociology in the Age of Composition: Coordinates of an integrative network theory , Velbrück, Weilerwist 2014, ISBN 978-3-942393-57-7 .
  • with Jörn Lamla , Hartmut Rosa , David Strecker (eds.): Handbuch der Soziologie , UVK, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-8601-9 .
  • with Sina Farzin (Ed.): Founding scenes of sociological theory. VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-19800-2 .
  • (Ed.): Bruno Latour's sociology of “modes of existence”: introduction and discussion , Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3125-8 .
  • with Anna Henkel (ed.): The earth, the human being and the social: on the transformation of social relations to nature in the Anthropocene , transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4042-7 .
  • with Lars Gertenbach: On the topicality of Bruno Latour: Introduction to his work , Springer, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-531-18895-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dataset on d-nb.info (accessed October 2, 2019).
  2. ^ A b Mario Steinebach: New appointment to the university , article in Uni aktuell of the TU Chemnitz from April 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b CV and publications on the website of the chair at Chemnitz University of Technology (accessed on October 2, 2019).
  4. ^ Dataset of the dissertation on d-nb.info (accessed on October 2, 2019).
  5. ↑ Board of the section "Sociological Theory of the DGS (accessed on October 2, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Laux, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Quiver