Stephan Moebius

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Stephan Moebius (born November 14, 1973 in Konstanz ) is a German sociologist and cultural scientist .

life and work

Stephan Moebius attended the humanistic Heinrich-Suso-Gymnasium in Konstanz until 1993 . After his community service, he studied sociology and cultural studies in Bremen . In 2002 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Bremen with the grade summa cum laude . From 2003 to 2008 he taught at the Institute of Sociology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and was a member of the “History of Social Sciences” editorial team of the “Sozial.Geschichte. Journal for Historical Analysis of the 20th and 21st Centuries ”. Moebius was a research fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and carried out research at the Collège de Sociologie, founded in 1937 by Georges Bataille , Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois . With this thesis he completed his habilitation in 2005 at the University of Bremen. As part of a DFG project, he also examined the history of the impact of the French sociologist and ethnologist Marcel Mauss .

Stephan Moebius was chairman of the cultural sociology section in the German Society for Sociology (DGS) until 2015 and spokesman for the sociological theory section of the Austrian Society for Sociology (ÖGS) until 2017 . In 2007 he represented the chair for cultural anthropology , cultural sociology and ethnology at the University of Konstanz . From 2007 to 2009 he was junior professor for sociology at the Max-Weber-Kolleg for cultural and social science studies at the University of Erfurt and also taught at the political science faculty of the university, but in the meantime he represented the chair for general and theoretical sociology ( Hartmut Rosa ) at the University of Jena . Since September 2009 Moebius has been a university professor and holder of the chair for sociological theory and the history of ideas at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz . In 2017 he was elected a corresponding member and in 2019 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2017 he received the State Prize for excellent research-related teaching from the Republic of Austria.

Moebius' research interests are broadly interpreted: Sociological theory (s), sociology history , sociology in France , poststructuralism / modern French philosophy / deconstruction , cultural sociology , sociology of knowledge , sociology of religion , gender sociology , intellectual sociology , anthropology , ethnology , thanato sociology, sociology of birth.

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Independent book publications

Co-editions (selection)

  • Sociological schools of thought in the Federal Republic of Germany , ed. together with Joachim Fischer , Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22222-2 .
  • Handbook of the history of German-speaking sociology. Volume 1: History of Sociology in German-speaking Countries (Ed. With Andrea Ploder), Wiesbaden 2018, print edition: ISBN 978-3-658-07613-9 , eBook: ISBN 978-3-658-07614-6 .
  • Handbook of the history of German-speaking sociology. Volume 2: Research design, theories and methods (Ed. With Andrea Ploder), Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-07607-8 .
  • Cyclos. Yearbook for Theory and History of Sociology. Volume 1. (Ed. With Martin Endreß and Klaus Lichtblau ), 2014, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Cultural sociology. Classical Texts - Current Debates. A reader. (Ed. With Frank Adloff, Frank, Sebastian Büttner, Rainer Schützeichel), 2014, Frankfurt / New York: CampusVerlag.
  • Cultural Sociology in the 21st Century. (Ed. With Joachim Fischer ), 2014, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 309 pages, ISBN 978-3-658-03224-1 .
  • Cultural sociology. Classical texts of modern German cultural sociology , (Ed. With Clemens Albrecht ), 2013, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 430 pp., ISBN 978-3-658-02253-2 .
  • Marcel Mauss: Writings on the sociology of religion. Edited and introduced by Stephan Moebius, Frithjof Nungesser and Christian Papilloud, with an afterword by Stephan Moebius, 2012, Berlin: Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-29632-5 .
  • Aestheticization of the social. Advertising, Art and Politics in the Age of Visual Media (Ed. With Lutz Hieber ), 2011, Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Sociology of Birth. Discourses, Practices and Perspectives , (Ed. With Paula-Irene Villa , Barbara Thiessen), 2011, Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
  • Divas, hackers, speculators. Social Figures of the Present (Ed. With Markus Schroer ), 2010, Berlin: Suhrkamp (2nd edition 2011)
  • Sociological controversies. Contribution to a different history of the science of the social (Ed. With Georg Kneer ), 2010, Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp.
  • Avant-garde and politics. Artistic activism from Dada to postmodernism (Ed. With Lutz Hieber), 2009, Bielefeld: transcript
  • Post-structuralist social sciences (edited with Andreas Reckwitz ), 2008, Frankfurt / M .: Suhrkamp stw 1869, ISBN 978-3-518-29469-7 .
  • Culture . Present theories. 2006 (Ed. With Dirk Quadflieg). Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 3-531-14519-3 , 2nd expanded, updated edition 2010.
  • Sociology as a critique of society. Festschrift for Lothar Peter (Ed. With Gerhard Schäfer), Hamburg: VSA, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89965-175-1 .
  • Gift - Marcel Mauss' Kulturtheorie der Gabe , 2005 (Ed. With Christian Papilloud), Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 3-531-14731-5 .
  • Art in the Kulturkampf . On the criticism of German museum culture. 2005 (Ed. With Lutz Hieber ; Karl-Siegbert Rehberg ), Bielefeld: transcript, ISBN 3-89942-360-7 .
  • absolute Jacques Derrida . 2005 (Ed. With Dietmar J. Wetzel), Freiburg / Br .: Orange Press, ISBN 3-936086-20-6 .
  • French contemporary sociology. 2004 (Ed. With Lothar Peter), UTB Soziologie series, Konstanz: UVK, ISBN 3-8252-2571-2 .

literature

  • Karl Acham : Stephan Moebius. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 2017, 167th volume, Vienna 2018, p. 185.

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