Ulrich Broeckling

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Ulrich Bröckling (born April 21, 1959 in Paderborn ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Bröckling studied - after a technical college for special educators - sociology , modern history and philosophy at the University of Freiburg . Until 1991 he worked for the publicist Walter Dirks and co-editor of his collected writings (1987-1991) as well as the author of the anarchist quarterly magazine Schwarzer Faden . From 1991 to 1999 Bröckling worked as a publishing editor, then until 2007 as a research assistant at the University of Konstanz . Bröckling received his doctorate in 1996 and completed his habilitation in sociology at the University of Freiburg in 2006. From 2007 to 2009 he was Professor of Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Leipzig . From 2009 to 2011 he worked as a university professor for general sociology with a focus on sociological theory at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Bröckling has been a professor of cultural sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since April 1, 2011 . He is co-editor of the magazines Leviathan - Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft and Behemoth - A Journal on Civilization .

His main research interests are: sociology of social and self-technologies; Governmentality studies ; Cultural sociology ; Anthropology ; Sociology of War and the Military.

In 2020, Bröckling's book Postheroic Heroes was published , which was created as part of the interdisciplinary collaborative research center Heroes - Heroize - Heroisms . From a cultural-sociological meta-perspective, the relevance of heroes, the desire for heroisation and also tendencies towards de-heroisation are examined. Bröckling explains that the hero cult is also a technology of rule in post-heroic societies such as that of liberal democracy .

Publications (selection)

  • Catholic intellectuals in the Weimar Republic. Criticism of time and social theory with Walter Dirks, Romano Guardini , Carl Schmitt , Ernst Michel and Heinrich Mertens . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1993
  • Discipline: Sociology and History of Military Obedience Production . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-7705-3173-8 .
  • Armies and their deserters. Neglected chapters of modern military history. (Ed. With Michael Sikora ) (= Vandenhoeck Collection). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-01365-5 .
  • Governmentality of the Present: Studies on the Economization of the Social. (Ed. With Susanne Krasmann , Thomas Lemke ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2000
  • Present glossary. (Ed. With Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2004
  • The entrepreneurial self: sociology of a form of subjectivation . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29432-1 .
    • Spanish version: El self emprendedor. Sociología de una forma de subjetivación . Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile 2015
    • English version: The Entrepreneurial Self. Fabricating a New Type of Subject . Sage, London 2016
  • Governmentality. Current Issues and Future Challenges. (Ed. With Susanne Krasmann, Thomas Lemke). (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 71) Routledge, New York 2011
  • Think the political. Contemporary positions. (Ed. With Robert Feustel ) transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1160-1 .
  • Editor and commentator: Michel Foucault : Critique of the government. Writings on Politics . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010
  • The other of the order. Theories of the exceptional. (Ed. With Christian Dries, Matthias Leanza, Tobias Schlechtriemen) Velbrück Weilerswist 2015
  • One wants to be afraid, essay, in: Mittelweg 36 , 6, Hamburg 2016 (December), pp. 3–7 (about populism )
  • Good shepherds lead gently. About human government arts . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-29817-6 .
  • Postheroic heroes. A picture of time . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-58747-8 .

Web links

Individual proof

  1. Süddeutsche Zeitung: You don't hold out at any price. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .