Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
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 .
plant
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 .
- 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)
- 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
- Literature by and about Shemuel Noaḥ Aizensḥtadṭ in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. In: Uni-Haifa.de (PDF) .
- Björn Wittrock: About Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. In: HolbergPrisen.no.
- English essay in the Marburg Forum on the social prerequisites for genocide (PDF file; 188 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ynetnews.com
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau. March 22, 2000.
personal data | |
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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 |