Judith Jánoska-Bendl

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Judith Jánoska-Bendl (born September 21, 1931 in Graz ; † February 14, 2007 in Bern ) was an Austrian sociologist who dealt with the methodological work of Max Weber and role theory .

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Judith Bendl was born as the only child of a single mother who was dismissed in 1938 because of critical statements about the continuation of the millennium and who then worked for seven years in the office of a carpenter's shop. Although Graz was regarded as the “city of popular uprising” under National Socialism , she was able to attend a high school (run by Catholic institutions) during this time. On the advice of a teacher, Bendl began studying philosophy in autumn 1949. In addition to the professors Count Amadeo Silva-Tarouca (professor for systematic philosophy) and Konstantin Radaković (professor for the history of philosophy and philosophical sociologist), she also got to know Rudolf Freundlich as a private lecturer and assistant at the philosophical seminar, who had studied with Robert Reininger in Vienna and with Ferdinand Weinhandl (Professor of Psychology). Georg Jánoska , who was one of the first to master Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations in 1953 , stood out among his fellow students due to his broad knowledge and power of argument .

Bendl was a communist but was one of the first in her family to leave the party in 1953 because of the revelations about Stalin . In her dissertation on Hegel, with which she graduated in 1954, Karl Marx did not appear at all. Instead, she dealt with questions of art as part of the Graz “Urania”, but then also with social history, and together with the art historian Walter Koschatzky organized a course on the emergence of Gothic against the background of early urban culture. She published her first essay on Machiavelli's understanding of politics under the conditions of Florence at the time . Shortly before completing her doctorate, she married Georg Jánoska, who had been dismissed as an assistant for political reasons and was employed by Urania, in his second marriage. She herself got a job with Radakovic as a research assistant at the "Seminar for Philosophical Sociology". Through the US guest lecturer Ernest Manheim , Bendl came to a conference of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies at Schloss Leopoldskron in 1956 , where she was able to experience Talcott Parsons and Ralf Dahrendorf . This encouraged her to use Parsons' Heidelberg dissertation to deal with the comparison of theories of Max Weber and Werner Sombart on capitalism . Ultimately, this gave rise to the idea of ​​choosing Max Weber as the subject of the habilitation thesis. In the colloquium she attempted to defend Ludwig Gumplovicz against accusations of social Darwinism .

Because of a job offer for Georg Jánoska, the move to Darmstadt took place . Bendl completed his habilitation in “Sociology” with a lecture on the various methodological disputes in sociology. In September 1967 Georg Jánoska became a full professor in Bern ; With the support of Urs Jaeggi, Bendl obtained another habilitation for a teaching permit in “sociological theory”. The opening lecture “Remarks on Historically Free Sociology” was a success with the public. Her lectures as a private lecturer she then denied with the history of sociology, which she opened with Ibn Chaldun in the 14th century. In the 1970/71 academic year, she represented Jaeggi at the University of Bochum , where she was confronted with topics such as the positivism dispute and class-specific socialization ( Basil Bernstein ) due to student demand . After returning to Bern, she was entrusted with the obligatory introductory lecture in sociological theory as a “part-time associate professor”.

In the summer of 1980 she organized a seminar on the interpretation of the Marxian “method chapter”. This text is quoted again and again in connection with the value form analysis, but had never been analyzed in connection before. A corresponding comment was prepared and published with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

It was not until 1980 that Bendl came into contact with the women's movement. She published a well-received article entitled “On Solidarity”.

In February 1990 Georg Jánoska passed away voluntarily. Afterwards, Bendl helped to collect the scattered essays of the deceased husband in one volume.

literature

  • Judith Jánoska: Sociology for Socialism . In: Christian Fleck, (Ed.): Paths to Sociology after 1945: Autobiographical Notes . Leske + Budrich Opladen 1996. ISBN 3-8100-1660-8 . Pp. 339-351.
  • Katharina Belser, Elisabeth Ryter, Brigitte Schnegg, Marianne Ulmi, (eds.): Solidarity - dispute - contradiction. Festschrift for Judith Jánoska. Zurich: eFeF Verlag 1991.

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  1. ↑ Methodological aspects of the ideal type. Max Weber and the Sociology of History . Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1965
  2. ↑ This is the third section of the introduction to the Critique of Political Economy from 1857
  3. ^ Judith Jánoska, Martin Bondeli, Konrad Kindle, Marc Hofer: The "method chapter" by Karl Marx. A historical and systematic commentary . Basel: Schwabe 1994.
  4. ↑ Swiss Journal for Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1982), pp. 331-340.
  5. ↑ Georg Jánoska: Being and meaning. Philosophical writings 1952-1989 . Edited by Stefanie Brander, Nicolas Broccard, Judith Jánoska, Alex Sutter. Bern et al .: Peter Lang 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Jánoska-Bendl, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2007
Place of death Bern