Volker Heins

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Volker Heins (* 1957 in Braunschweig ) is a German political scientist. He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen (KWI) and a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen . He is also a senior researcher and member of the board at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Center for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg .

biography

Heins studied social sciences, philosophy and Italian philology in Bonn , Florence and Frankfurt am Main . In 1988 he received his PhD with a dissertation on the legitimation problem of political rule. phil. PhD. He then published an introduction to Max Weber .

Until 1993, Heins was a research associate at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Frankfurt University. In 1995 he spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Chandigarh , India . From 1998 to 2012 he worked at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (IfS). In 2001 Heins received his habilitation at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

From 2005 to 2010 he was a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at McGill University , Montreal . He was also a visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University , at the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University .

Heins has been head of the InterKultur department at the KWI in Essen since 2012 . In addition, he has been an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2017 .

Volker Heins is a member of the Council for Migration and a founding member of the Academy in Exile.

Focus of work

Fonts (selection)

  • Herbert Marcuse, “One-Dimensional Man”, in: The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory , ed. v. Jacob T. Levy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online Publication Date: November 2017.
  • (Ed. With K. Koddenbrock and C. Unrau) Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation . London / New York: Routledge 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-96337-5 .
  • (Ed. With F. Adloff) Convivialism - a debate . Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3184-5 .
  • The Diversity Scandal: History and Concepts of Multiculturalism . Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39969-0 .
  • Beyond Friend and Foe. The Politics of Critical Theory , Leiden / Boston: Brill 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-18800-6 .
  • Max Weber for an introduction . Hamburg: Junius 2010 4 (1st edition 1990), ISBN 978-3-88506-390-2 .
  • (Ed. With D. Chandler) Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes , London / New York: Routledge 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-40019-0 .
  • The Other of Civil Society: On the Archeology of a Concept . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2002, ISBN 9783839400883 .
  • The new transnationalism: Non-governmental organizations and companies in the conflict over the raw materials of biotechnology , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2001, ISBN 3-593-36862-5 .
  • Strategies of legitimation: The legitimation paradigm in political theory . Münster: Westfäl. Steam boat, 1990. Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/politik/heins.php accessed on June 12, 2018
  2. ↑ https://www.gcr21.org/de/das-kolleg/team/forschungsgruppe/dr-habil-volker-heins/ accessed on June 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Heins, Volker: Strategies of Legitimation: The Legitimation Paradigm in Political Theory. Münster: Westfäl. Steam boat, 1990. Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1988.
  4. ↑ Heins, Volker: Der Neue Transnationalismus: Non-governmental organizations and companies in the conflict over the raw materials of biotechnology , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2001, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Website of the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen, accessed on June 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ https://www.gcr21.org/de/das-kolleg/team/forschungsgruppe/dr-habil-volker-heins/ accessed on June 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/politik/heins_zurperson.php .
  8. ↑ https://rat-fuer-migration.de/ueber-uns/lösungen/ accessed on June 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/turkistik/pressemitteilung_academy_in_exile.pdf accessed on June 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Heins, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig