Thomas Meyer (political scientist)

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Thomas Meyer (2015)

Thomas Meyer (* 1943 in Leipzig ) is professor emeritus for political science at the Technical University of Dortmund (focus: democratic theory, political theory, Europe).

Life

Thomas Meyer studied philosophy, political science, psychology and German literature at the University of Frankfurt (among others with Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Apel and Fetscher). In 1973 he received his doctorate there on the subject of the conflict in Marx's theory of emancipation: Study on the role of the proletarian subject . His habilitation took place in 1977 at the Free University of Berlin .

Meyer is a well-known critic of the influence of modern media on the style and content of today's politics. He is the deputy chairman of the Fundamental Values ​​Commission of the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He is co-editor and since 2008 also editor-in-chief of the political-cultural magazine Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . He is also a lecturer at the Academy for Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . His academic focus is on social democracy , the cultural foundations of politics, political communication as well as civil society and politics.

Publications (selection)

  • The proletarian subject and the structural ambivalence of Marx's theory of emancipation . Dissertation . Frankfurt am Main 1972.
    • Published as: The conflict in Marx's theory of emancipation. Study on the role of the proletarian subject . Scriptor, Kronberg 1973.
  • Bernstein's Constructive Socialism: Eduard Bernstein's Contribution to The Theory of Socialism. Dietz, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-8012-1105-3
  • Lexicon of Socialism, Bund Verlag Köln 1988.
  • What is left of socialism? Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1990.
  • with Martina Kampmann : Politics as Theater. The new power of the performing arts. Structure, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02477-0 .
  • What is politics? 3. Edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16467-0 .
  • with Rüdiger Ontrup and Christian Schicha : The staging of the political. On the theatricality of media discourses. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-531-13433-7 .
  • Mediocracy. The colonization of politics by the media . (= es . 2204). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12204-5 .
  • Identity politics. About the abuse of cultural differences . (= es. 2272). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12272-X .
  • What is politics? VS Verlag Wiesbaden 2003 .
  • The identity of Europe. A soul to the EU? (it. 2355). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12355-6 .
  • with Lew Hinchman (ed.): Theory of social democracy. VS, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14612-2 .
  • Practice of social democracy. VS Wiesbaden, 2006 .
  • What is socialism VS, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15445-9 .
  • What is democracy A discursive introduction . VS, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15488-6 .
  • Social democracy. An introduction. VS, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16814-2 .
  • What is fundamentalism. VS, Wiesbaden 2011 .
  • Social Democracy Theory . 2nd Edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-531-18131-8
  • The unimportant. How political journalists co-govern . (= es. 2692). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-12692-9 .

Articles and articles (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Meyer, Marcus Klöckner: "The great diversity of opinion in the German press is history". Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Members of the SPD Basic Values ​​Commission ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Spd.de, accessed on June 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, member of the Policy Commission (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig