Klaus Lichtblau

Klaus Lichtblau (born September 22, 1951 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian of ideas and sociologist.

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Lichtblau studied philosophy, political science and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Bielefeld . In Bielefeld he studied with Niklas Luhmann , with whom he wrote his thesis in sociology in 1975. After working as a research assistant in the editorial team of the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, he received his doctorate in philosophy with Jürgen Frese in 1980 . He then continued to work in Bielefeld, then at the universities in Kassel and Kiel . His habilitation in sociology took place in 1996 at the University of Kassel. From 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of Sociology with a focus on the history and systematics of social science theory formation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1998 Lichtblau has also worked for the University of Hagen .

research

The history of sociology is one of the research interests of Klaus Lichtblau . He is particularly interested in the "classics" Max Weber , Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim . Lichtblau also researched the rebuilding of social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in the post-war period, which is not least due to the fact that his chair is in the tradition of the chair of Theodor W. Adorno .

Editorships

Lichtblau is editor of the series Classics of the Social Sciences at VS Verlag (Wiesbaden). He was also working on the publication of Cyclos. Yearbook of Theory and History of Sociology involved.

Publications (selection)

• Theory of civil society , Focus-Verlag, Giessen 1978, ISBN 3-920352-99-8
• (Ed. With Ilona Ostner ) Feminist Reason Criticism , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1992 ISBN 3-593-34455-6
• Cultural crisis and sociology at the turn of the century , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-58237-2
• Georg Simmel , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35703-8
• The age of division , Philo, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8257-0124-7
• Transformations der Moderne , Philo, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8257-0252-9
• Max Weber's Basic Concepts , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14810-9
• as editor together with Felicia Herrschaft: Sociology in Frankfurt. An interim balance sheet, VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010 ISBN 978-3-531-16399-4
• The peculiarity of the cultural and social science concept formation , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011 ISBN 978-3-531-16188-4 .
• together with Volker Caspari : Franz Oppenheimer . Economist and sociologist , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-95542-050-5 .
• Between classic and modern. The modernity of classical German sociology , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-14960-4 .
• On the topicality of Georg Simmel. Introduction to his work , 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22715-9 .
• On the topicality of Max Weber. Introduction to his work , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-28946-1 .

Web links

• Homepage of Klaus Lichtblau
• Literature by and about Klaus Lichtblau in the catalog of the German National Library