Urs Jaeggi

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Urs Jaeggi [ ˈjæki ] (born June 23, 1931 in Solothurn ; † February 13, 2021 in Berlin ) was a Swiss sociologist , writer and visual artist .

life and work

Urs Jaeggi - son of a notary - completed an apprenticeship as a banker and worked in this profession for five years. At the same time he made up his school leaving examination on the second educational path and then studied economics and sociology in Geneva, Bern and Berlin. In 1959 he was at the University of Berne Dr. rer. pole. PhD . There he was assistant to the development sociologist Richard Fritz Behrendt . From 1959 to 1961 he was a research assistant at the University of Münster and at the Social Research Center in Dortmund. From 1961 he taught at the Sociological Institute of the University of Bern, where he received his habilitation in 1964 . In 1965 he became Associate Professor of Sociology there. In the 1960s he was married to the psychologist Eva Jaeggi . Their daughter Rahel Jaeggi is professor for practical philosophy at the HU Berlin .

In 1966 he was offered a position at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum , where he held a chair in sociology. Parts of the student movement related to his work, especially to the analysis of power and rule in the Federal Republic (1969). Unlike Leo Kofler , his successor at the Bochum chair, Jaeggi combined his work in the field of sociological theory with approaches from empirical social research and published at the time, among other things. important work on political sociology . In 1970/71 he taught as a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1972 to 1992 Jaeggi was a full professor at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin .

Urs Jaeggi not only emerged as the author of numerous sociological works, but also as the author of fictional works. His archive is located in the Swiss Literature Archive in Bern. From 1985 Jaeggi also worked as a painter, sculptor and in the field of action art .

Urs Jaeggi lived in Berlin and Mexico City . He died in Berlin in February 2021 at the age of 89.

Memberships

Awards

Works

  • The social elite , Bern [u. a.] 1960
  • (with Herbert Wiedemann) The employee in the automated office , Stuttgart 1963
  • (with Robert Bosshard and Jürg Siegenthaler) Sport and Student , Bern [a. a.] 1963
  • The benefits of the moon , Munich 1963
  • The accomplices , Munich 1964 (new edition Freitag Verlag, Berlin 1982)
  • Mountain communities in transition , Bern 1965
  • (with Herbert Wiedemann) The employee in the industrial company , Stuttgart [among others] 1966
  • The sociologist , Bern 1966
  • (with Rudolf Steiner and Willy Wyniger) The Vietnam War and the Press , Zurich 1966
  • A man walks by , Zurich [u. a.] 1968
  • Order and Chaos , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Power and rule in the Federal Republic , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1969. New edition: Capital and Labor in the Federal Republic (1973). Fischer paperback 6510 ISBN 3-43601685-3
  • Working class and literature , Frankfurt am Main 1972 (together with Peter Kühne)
  • For and against revolutionary impatience , Zurich [u. a.] 1972
  • Literature and Politics , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Stories about us , Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • (with Sven Papcke ) Revolution and Theory , Frankfurt am Main
    • Vol. 1. Materials on the bourgeois understanding of the revolution , 1974
  • Theoretical Practice , Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Brandeis , Darmstadt [a. a.] 1978 (novel)
  • Society and Consciousness , Hagen 1980
  • Floor plans , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1981
  • What is on the table is eaten , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1981
  • (with Manfred Fassler) Head and Hand , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1982
  • Attempt on treason , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1984
  • Fazil and Johanna , Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • (with Schang Hutter) Heicho , Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin-Kreuzberg 1985. ISBN 3-922510-32-9 .
  • (with Norbert Ledergerber) Solothurn Film Festival 1966 - 1985 , Friborg 1985
  • Rimpler , Zurich 1987
  • Soulthorn , Zurich 1990
  • (with Remy Steinegger) Tessin , Zurich 1991
  • Spinoza i (s) st ... . , Städtische Bühnen Freiburg [2000], stage design, music, staging: Art Clay
  • Art , Berlin 2002
  • Confusion Society , Frauenfeld Stuttgart Vienna 2008
  • Like us . Novel. Huber [etc.], Frauenfeld 2009
  • Follisophy . Poems and prose. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2013
  • Art is everywhere . Collection of articles. Ritter, Klagenfurt 2014
  • Home games . Prose. Ritter, Klagenfurt 2015
  • A bird on the tongue . Poetry and prose. Klever, Vienna 2019
  • Long years of silence as noise . Wewerka Edition, Berlin [2000?], Also released as a radio play on DVD-ROM, DLR, [Berlin] 2005, director: Stefanie Hoster; Composition: Sabine Ercklentz

Editing

  • Social structure and political systems , Cologne 1976
  • Theories of Historical Materialism , Frankfurt am Main (together with Axel Honneth)
    • Vol. 1 (1977)
    • Vol. 2. Work, Action, Normativity , 1980
  • Ghost and disaster. Studies on sociology under National Socialism . Scientific authors' publishing house, Berlin 1983
  • Wall cracks , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988
  • Temporary co-editor of the papers for German and international politics

Exhibition catalogs

  • Pictures by Urs Jaeggi , Solothurn 1985
  • Urs Jaeggi , Bern 1990
  • Urs Jaeggi, Figures , Zurich 1991
  • Urs Jaeggi: stairs, flying, heads, words , Berlin 2004

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicola Kuhn: On the death of the sociologist, author, artist Urs Jaeggi - Radikal sovereign, radically open , tagesspiegel.de, published and accessed on February 14, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Jaeggi, Urs
SHORT DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, painter, sculptor and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2021
Place of death Berlin