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Klaus Holz (* 1960 ) is a German sociologist and anti-Semitism researcher . He is general secretary of the Evangelical Academies in Germany. V.

Life

Holz studied sociology and modern German literature . From 1988 to 2000 he worked at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Universität Leipzig , the Universität Bielefeld ( center for interdisciplinary research ) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business . He was born in 1992 at the University of Freiburg with the dissertation historicization of social theory. On the epistemological criticism of Marxist and critical theory on Dr. phil. PhD. He completed his habilitation in 1999/2000 at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leipzig with the thesis National Anti-Semitism. Sociology of knowledge based on a worldview that emerged between 1994 and 1999.

From 2000 to 2009 he was head of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e. V. Villigst . Since then he has been Secretary General of the Evangelical Academies in Germany eV He is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Villigster Research Forum on National Socialism, Racism and Anti-Semitism and co-founder of the European Network for the Study of Historical and Contemporary Anti-Semitism . Holz was editor of the series Villigst Profile (together with Sven Wende) and the dissertation series Villigst Perspektiven (together with Eberhard Müller) of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.

There are memberships in the university advisory board of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), in the presidential assembly of the German Evangelical Church Congress (DEKT), the Federal Working Group on Political Education (bap) and on the board of the research center of the Evangelical Study Community , Institute for Interdisciplinary Research e. V. (FEST) in Heidelberg. Holz was also a member of the philosophical and socio-critical group jour fixe initiative berlin . Klaus Holz is a member of the German Federal Government's Independent Expert Group on Antisemitism .

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His main research interests are anti-Semitism and social and cultural theories. He published in the historical, political and sociological field, especially on the topics of National Socialism , racism and anti-Semitism . According to Samuel Salzborn , according to the Holz 'study “is the first and so far only social science theory of anti-Semitism for which extensive empirical analyzes have been carried out”, the focus of Klaus Holz's anti-Semitism theory is the “figure of the third”. According to Holz, this topos makes it possible to analyze the connection between self-images, images of Jews and racist images of others, which must move into the focus of anti-Semitism research .

While the habilitation thesis National Anti-Semitism. Sociology of Knowledge of a Weltanschauung from 2001 dealt exclusively with European hostility towards Jews, Holz expanded on in his more recent work, especially in his book The Presence of Antisemitism. Islamist, democratic and anti-Zionist hostility towards Jews from 2005, the focus on Islamist anti-Semitism.

Fonts (selection)

In addition to book chapters and essays in scientific journals such as Mittelweg 36 , Kultursoziologie , Critical Reports , Sociological Review and Considering Knowledge Ethics , he is the author and editor of the following works:

Monographs

  • Historicization of social theory. On the critique of knowledge of Marxist and critical theory (= sociological studies . Volume 12). Centaurus Verlag, Pfaffenweiler 1993, ISBN 3-89085-823-6 (also dissertation).
  • National anti-Semitism. Sociology of knowledge of a worldview . Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-930908-67-0 (also habilitation thesis).
  • The presence of anti-Semitism. Islamic, democratic and anti-Zionist hostility towards Jews . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-936096-59-0 .

Editorships

  • Sociology between modern and postmodern. Investigations on subject, knowledge and morality (= parable , volume 13). Focus Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-88349-417-8 .
  • Citizenship. Social differentiation and political inclusion . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-531-14000-0 .
  • With Sven Keppler, Thorsten Mundi: Promote education. Europeanization, financing and structuring of the university reform (= Villigst-Profile . Volume 7). Lit Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8896-7 .
  • With Klaus-Michael Bogdal , Matthias N. Lorenz : Literary anti-Semitism after Auschwitz . JB Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02240-0 .
  • With Heiko Kauffmann, Jobst Paul : The Negation of Judaism. Anti-Semitism as a religious and secular weapon (= Edition DISS . Volume 22). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89771-751-0 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Theory of Social Change". ZiF: Forschungsgruppe 1997/1998 , Center for Interdisciplinary Research, accessed on July 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Klaus Holz: National anti-Semitism. Sociology of knowledge of a worldview . 2001, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Independent expert group on anti-Semitism starts work . BMI news, January 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ Samuel Salzborn : Anti-Semitism as a negative central idea of ​​modernity. Comparison of social science theories . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39187-8 , p. 182.
  5. ↑ Klaus Holz: The anti-Semitic figure of the third in the national order of the world . In: Christina von Braun , Eva-Maria Ziege (ed.): The movable prejudice. Aspects of international anti-Semitism . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2820-1 , pp. 43-61.
  6. ↑ Klaus Holz: The presence of anti-Semitism. Islamic, democratic and anti-Zionist hostility towards Jews . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-936096-59-0 , pp. 15-36; see. also: Klaus Holz: From a cloudy source . In: Die Zeit , February 1, 2006; Christoph Schmitz: “Reaction to non-integration” (conversation with Klaus Holz). Culture today ( Deutschlandfunk ), July 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and anti-Semitism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1960