Ulrich Eisel

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Ulrich Eisel (born September 13, 1941 in Wiesbaden ) is a geographer and critical social theorist .

biography

After completing his apprenticeship as a cartographer , he completed an engineering degree in cartography and worked as an engineering graduate at Eduard Imhof in Erlenbach, at the ETH Zurich and at Orell Füssli in Zurich. In 1967 he completed his studies in geography, sociology , cartography and political science at the Free University of Berlin , made scientific contacts with Gerhard Hard , among others , with whom he later obtained his doctorate, and was involved in the publication of the journal Geografiker . From 1974 until his doctorate in geography (1979) he was a research assistant at the Institute for Anthropogeography at the Free University of Berlin. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Geography at the University of Osnabrück , where he completed his habilitation in political science. In 1985 he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Landscape Development (later Environment and Society ), where he headed the department of social science human ecology (later the cultural history of nature ) until his retirement in 2000 .

Among the German geographers, Eisel belongs to the method-critical geographers. B. also belong Gerhard Hard , Dietrich Bartels , Benno Werlen and Hans-Dietrich Schultz. Eisel's work was initially focused on critical geography . Eisel later devoted his publications to the theory of science, the history of paradigms in landscape planning and the cultural history of nature, and later the history of ideas in nature conservation, sustainable landscape development and aesthetics. He looks at the specialist politics of landscape and spatial planning from a philosophical and socially critical perspective.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Ulrich Eisel: The development of anthropogeography from a "spatial science" to social science . Gesamtthochschul-Bibliothek, Kassel 1980, ISBN 978-3-8812-2055-2 ( Urbs et regio: Kassel writings on geography and planning No. 17; dissertation).
  • Ulrich Eisel: The nature of the value form and the value form of nature: Studies on a dialectical naturalism . University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1984 (habilitation thesis).
  • Ulrich Eisel: Adventure, breaks, security and tremors in landscape architecture? About the difference between theory and specialist policy - as well as some information about a school . Kassel University Press, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-8621-9134-5 .

Collective works

  • Ulrich Eisel and Stefanie Schultz (eds.): History and structure of landscape planning . Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-7983-1461-0 ( Landscape Development and Environmental Research No. 83).
  • Ulrich Eisel and Hans-Dietrich Schultz (eds.): Geographical thinking . Gesamtthochschul-Bibliothek, Kassel 1997, ISBN 978-3-8812-2891-6 ( Urbs et regio: Kassel writings on geography and planning , special volume).
  • Ulrich Eisel (Ed.): Landscape and Society: Spatial Thinking in Sight . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8969-1772-0 ( Raumproduktionen No. 5).
  • Ulrich Eisel and Stefan Körner (Eds.): Liberated Landscape: Modern Landscape Without Arcadian Ballast? . Technical University of Munich, Freising 2009, ISBN 978-3-9314-7216-0 ( Contributions to the cultural history of nature No. 18).

Essays

  • Ulrich Eisel: Regionalism and Industry. About the impossibility of a social science as a spatial science . In: Peter Sedlacek and Günther Beck (eds.): Cultural / Social Geography: Contributions to their epistemological foundation . UTB / Schöningh, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 978-3-5069-9326-7 , pp. 125-150.
  • Ulrich Eisel: The beautiful landscape as a critical utopia or as a conservative relic: About the crystallization of opposing political philosophies in the symbol “landscape” . In: social world . Volume 38, No. 2, 1982, ISSN  0038-6073 , pp. 157-168.
  • Ulrich Eisel: Landscape studies as "materialistic theology". An attempt at the contemporary historiography of geography . In: Gerhard Bahrenberg and Gerhard Hard (eds.): Geography of the people: Dietrich Bartels for commemoration , University of Bremen, Bremen 1987, ISBN 978-3-8872-2168-3 , pp. 89-110 ( Bremen contributions to geography and spatial planning No. 11).
  • Ulrich Eisel: Warning about life. Social theory as a "critique of political biology" . In: Dieter Hassenpflug: Industrialism and Ecoromantics: History and Perspectives of Greening . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-8244-4077-1 , pp. 159-192.
  • Ulrich Eisel: Individuality as a unit of concrete nature: the cultural concept of geography . In: Bernhard Glaeser and Parto Teherani-Krönner (eds.): Human ecology and cultural ecology. Basics, approaches, practice . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 978-3-5311-2375-2 , pp. 107-151.
  • Ulrich Eisel: The space paradigm in environmental sciences . In: Nachrichtenblatt zur Stadt- und Regionalalsoziologie , Volume 8, No. 1, 1993, pp. 27-39.
  • Ulrich Eisel: Political drawers as theoretical heuristics. Methodological aspects of political shifts in meaning in images of nature . In: Ludwig Fischer: projection surface nature. On the connection between images of nature and social conditions . Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-9378-1601-2 , pp. 29-43 (conference proceedings).
  • Ulrich Eisel: Life in space and the political life of theories in ecology In: Michael Weingarten (Hrsg.): Structuring of space and landscape: Concepts in ecology and the theory of social relations to nature . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8969-1580-1 , pp. 42–62 (conference proceedings).
  • Ulrich Eisel: Diversity in nature conservation - the roots of a concept in the history of ideas . In: Thomas Potthast (Ed.): Biodiversity - Key Concept of Nature Conservation in the 21st Century? Extended documentation of the results of a Vilmer Summer Academy. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7843-3948-1 , pp. 25–40 ( Nature Conservation and Biological Diversity No. 48).
  • Ulrich Eisel: Modern geography with atavistic methods. About the vague perception of a clear paradigm . In: Ulrich Eisel and Hans-Dietrich Schultz: Classical Geography: Closed Paradigm or Variable Thinking Style? A review by Ulrich Eisel and a replica by Hans-Dietrich Schultz . Humboldt University, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809-9588-7 , pp. 1–37 ( Berlin Geographical Works No. 111).
  • Eisel, U. (2016): Love of life in contradiction. In: Frohmann, E. and Kirchengast, A. (Ed.): Landscape and meaning of life. Salzburg-Vienna. 46-60. http://www.ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Landschaft_und_Lebenssinn/Seiten_aus_160816-ch-studio-landschaft-lebenssinn-fahnenlektorat-eisel.pdf
  • Eisel, U. (2016): The landscape in and around us. Socio-theoretical approach to a contradicting problem. Lecture at the symposium "Who Owns the Landscape?". ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich, St. Pölten on November 24th, 2016   https://orte-noe.at/en/bulletins/und-wem-gehoert-nun-real-die-landschaft/vortrag_ulrich-eisel.pdf/view
  • Eisel, U. (2017): Economic and political principles in transition: the "quantitative revolution" of geography as a mirror of bourgeois consciousness. Geographica Helvetica 72, 1, 1-10. https://www.geogr-helv.net/72/55/2017/gh-72-55-2017.pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeitschriftenarchiv - Geografiker ( Memento of the original from May 24th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kritischegeographie.de
  2. ↑ On Eisel and the problem of critical geography see Benno Werlen's foreword in: Ulrich Eisel: Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Pp. 10-14.
personal data
SURNAME Eisel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape planner, human ecologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden