Nico Stehr

Nico Stehr (born March 19, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German cultural scientist and sociologist . Until June 2018, he held the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen .

Life

Stehr taught and researched at American and Canadian universities from 1967 to 2000 , most recently as a research professor at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . In the academic year 2002/2003 he was " Paul Lazarsfeld Professor" in the human and social sciences faculty at the University of Vienna .

From 2004 to June 2018, Stehr was Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies at the private Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen . From 2006 to 2009 he headed a research project funded by the EU Commission on the socio-political handling of so-called converging technologies (i.e. biotechnology , nanotechnology , information science and cognitive science ) and founded the European Center for Sustainability Research (ECS) in 2011 .

Stehr was a Senior Research Fellow at the Sustainable Development Research Institute of the University of British Columbia ( Vancouver ), a Fellow of the Essen Institute for Cultural Studies and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada as well as co-founder and until 2006 editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology . The title of his 1986 book (with Gernot Böhme ) The Knowledge Society ("The Knowledge Society ") became a household name in the scientific, political and economic context.

Scientific focus

Stehr works closely with the Hamburg climatologist Hans von Storch on the controversy surrounding global warming . He is one of the authors of the Hartwell paper on the realignment of climate policy after the collapse of 2009. This paper is the result of a meeting convened by the London School of Economics (LSE) in February 2010 to reflect on the consequences of climate policy developments at the end of 2009.

One of the main focuses of his scientific work is the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and the associated consequences for areas such as science, politics, economics and globalization. Another important topic is the social causes and consequences of climate change. Von Stehr has numerous publications on this as an author and editor as well as in the form of articles.

Awards

1985: Member of the Royal Society of Canada
2011: Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Publications (selection)

As an author

with Volker Meja and David Kettler: Karl Mannheim , Tavistock, 1984, ISBN 978-0-85312-688-1
Practical knowledge , Suhrkamp, 1991, ISBN 3-518-58099-X
Practical Knowledge. Applying the Social Sciences, Sage, 1992, ISBN 0-8039-8699-8
Knowledge Societies , Sage, 1994, ISBN 0-8039-7892-8
Work, property and knowledge. On the theory of knowledge societies , Suhrkamp, 1994, ISBN 3-518-58187-2
with Hans von Storch: Klima - Wetter - Mensch , CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-44613-2
The fragility of modern societies. The limits of power and the opportunities of the individual , Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000, ISBN 3-934730-18-3
Knowledge and economics. The social foundations of modern economy , Suhrkamp, 2001, ISBN 3-518-29107-6
Knowledge politics . The monitoring of knowledge , Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-518-29215-3
The moralization of the markets, Suhrkamp, 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29431-4
with Hans von Storch: Klima Wetter Mensch , Budrich Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86649-228-8
with Reiner Grundmann: The Power of Knowledge , Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29590-8
with Marian Adolf: Is knowledge power? Insights into knowledge , Velbrueck Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95832-074-1
with Amanda Machin: Society and Climate , Velbrueck Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95832-167-0
with Dustin Voss: money. A social theory of modernity , Velbrueck Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95832-166-3

As editor

with Volker Meja , David Kettler: Karl Mannheim , structures of thinking , Suhrkamp, 1981; second edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-27898-7
with Volker Meja: argument about the sociology of knowledge , Suhrkamp, 1982, ISBN 978-3-518-27961-8
with Volker Meja, David Kettler: Karl Mannheim, Konservativismus , Suhrkamp, 1984; second edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-28078-2
with Gernot Böhme : Knowledge Society , D. Reidel Publishing, 1986, ISBN 978-90-277-2305-5
with Peter Weingart : Practicing Interdisciplinarity , University of Toronto Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8020-4328-3
with Reiner Grundmann : Werner Sombart , Economic Life in the Modern Age , Transaction Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0-7658-0030-6
The Governance of Knowledge , Transaction Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-7658-0172-8
Biotechnology Between Commerce and Civil Society , Transaction Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-7658-0224-4
with Christian Fleck : Paul Neurath: The Society of Terror. Interior views of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps , Suhrkamp, 2004
with Reiner Grundmann: Knowledge , 5 volumes, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-35341-6
with Stephan A. Jansen, Birger P. Priddat : Demographie. Movements of a Retired Society. Multidisciplinary perspectives on demographic impact research , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, ISBN 3-531-14780-3
with Christian Fleck: Paul F. Lazarsfeld . Empirical analysis of action , Suhrkamp, 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29422-2
with Stephan A. Jansen, Birger P. Priddat: The future of the public. Multiplier perspectives for an opening of the discussion about the public , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15282-0
with Bernd Weiler: Who owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law , Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7658-0337-5
Knowledge and Democracy , Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4128-0706-7
with Hans von Storch: Eduard Brückner: The history of our climate. Climate fluctuations and climate impacts , Austrian contributions to meteorology and geophysics, 2008
with Stephan A. Jansen, Eckard Schroeter: Value-Added Capitalism Multidisciplinary Contributions to Forms of Capitalism and its Capitals, VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15864-8
with Manfred Moldaschl: Knowledge Economy Contributions to the Economy of the Knowledge Society, Metropolis Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89518-532-8
with Reiner Grundmann: Society. Critical Concepts in Sociology , 4 volumes, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-42656-5
with Stephan Jansen, Eckard Schroeter: Rationality of Creativity. Multidisciplinary contributions to the analysis of the production, organization and formation of creativity , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16688-9
with Stephan Jansen, Eckard Schroeter: Transparency. Multipdisciplinary reviews through phenomena and theories of the opaque , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2019 ISBN 978-3-531-17435-8
with Stephan Jansen, Eckard Schroeter: Fragile stability - stable fragility , Springer VS, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-02247-1

Web links

Literature by and about Nico Stehr in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Nico Stehr in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Literature list in the online catalog. Berlin State Library , accessed on January 4, 2016 .
Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies; Research projects. Zeppelin University , April 5, 2007, archived from the original on November 2, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 .

Individual evidence

↑ Velbrück Science: Nico Stehr. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
↑ Nico Stehr and Hans von Storch: Climate change and natural disasters - we have to learn to adapt. In: Cicero, magazine for political culture. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
↑ Rainer Böhme: ZU professor Nico Stehr appointed to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , press release from Zeppelin University, in: Information Service Science from February 10, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Stehr, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural scientist , university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Velbrück Science: Nico Stehr. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .

[2] Nico Stehr and Hans von Storch: Climate change and natural disasters - we have to learn to adapt. In: Cicero, magazine for political culture. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .

[3] Rainer Böhme: ZU professor Nico Stehr appointed to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , press release from Zeppelin University, in: Information Service Science from February 10, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2011