Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

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Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (March 2008)

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (born September 10, 1923 in Warsaw , † September 2, 2010 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli sociologist .

biography

Eisenstadt emigrated to Palestine at the age of 12. In 1959 he was appointed to the chair of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He has held numerous visiting professorships, including at the University of Chicago , Harvard University , the University of Zurich , the University of Vienna , the University of Bern , Stanford University and the University of Heidelberg .

He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Balzan Prize , the Max Planck Research Prize (together with Wolfgang Schluchter ) and the 2006 Holberg Prize . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , the Israel Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and the British Academy .

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Eisenstadt is considered a classic of sociology (see the list of important sociologists ). First, he was appointed as youth sociologist known (From Generation to Generation) and took effect on research on generations . He also showed close proximity to Talcott Parsons .

In particular, his thesis of multiple modernities , i.e. multiple moderns instead of the one modernity oriented towards convergence , is widely received. He developed this thesis from his extensive comparative studies of civilization on the Axial Age . The Frankfurter Rundschau wrote in 2000 that he had “made a significant contribution to detaching the understanding of modernity from that Eurocentric interpretation that saw the cultural program developed in the West as a natural model of development for all societies. […] The European model is only one thing: the earliest in time. It gives the impulse. But the social reactions - be it in the USA, Canada, Japan or in Southeast Asia - took place with very different cultural reagents. "

Important publications

  • The Political System of Empires. 1963.
  • Modernization, Protest, and Change. 1966.
  • Tradition, change and modernity. 1979.
  • Revolution and the Transformation of Societies. 1978.
  • European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective. 1987.
  • The transformation of Israeli society. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Japanese Civilization - A Comparative View. 1996.
  • as editor: Cultures of the Axial Age .
    • Volume I: Their origins and their diversity. Trans. V. R. Achlama and G. Schalit. Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-28253-0 . (Original title: The Axial Age Breakthroughs - Their characterictics and Origins. In: The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations. New York, 1986)
      • Part 1: Greece, Israel, Mesopotamia.
      • Part 2: Late Antiquity, India, China, Islam .
    • Volume II: Your Institutional and Cultural Dynamics. 3 parts, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28530-0 .
  • The antinomies of modernity. The Jacobean features of modernity and fundamentalism. Heterodoxies, Utopianism and Jacobinism in the constitution of fundamentalist movements. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-28788-5 .
  • Paradoxes of Democracy - The Political Theory in Search of the Political. Humanities Online, 2005, ISBN 3-934157-41-6 .
  • The diversity of modernity.
  • Theory and modernity. Sociological essays. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2006, ISBN 3-531-14565-7 .
  • The great revolutions and the cultures of modernity. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2006, ISBN 3-531-14993-8 .
  • Multiple modernities. The dispute over the present. 2007.

literature

  • Matthias Koenig : Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. In: Dirk Kaesler (ed.): Current theories of sociology. From Shmuel N. Eisenstadt to postmodernism. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52822-8 .
  • Matthias Koenig: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. In: Stephan Moebius , Dirk Quadflieg (Ed.): Culture. Present theories. Overview volume on current cultural theories. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14519-3 .
  • Gerhard Preyer : On the topicality of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Edited by Stephan Moebius. Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16458-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ynetnews.com
  2. ↑ Gerda Bohmann, Heinz-Jürgen Niedenzu: Multiple Modernities - Chances and Limits of a Concept. In: Austrian Journal for Sociology . Volume 38, 2013, No. 4, pp. 327-332, doi : 10.1007 / s11614-013-0111-5 .
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau. March 22, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenstadt, Samuel Noah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2010
Place of death Jerusalem