Volker Kruse

Volker Kruse (born March 19, 1954 in Helmstedt ) is a German sociologist .

From 1972 to 1979 Kruse studied history, social science, philosophy and education at the universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Bielefeld. He completed his studies in 1988 with a doctorate in sociology at Bielefeld University . After completing his habilitation , he became an associate professor in Bielefeld. His subjects are the history of sociology and sociological theories .

Fonts (selection)

• Sociology and "Contemporary Crisis". Franz Oppenheimer's and Alfred Weber's diagnoses of the times. A contribution to the historical sociology of the Weimar Republic . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 978-3-8244-4057-3 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University 1987).
• Historical-sociological diagnoses of the times in West Germany after 1945: Eduard Heimann, Alfred von Martin, Hans Freyer . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-518-28720-0 .
• Analysis of German historical sociology . Lit, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-8258-2663-5 .
• "History and Social Philosophy" or "Reality Science"? . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-29007-1 .
• Max Weber. An introduction . Together with Uwe Barrelmeyer, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3637-3 .
• War society modernity. On the structure-building dynamics of great wars . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-86764-167-8 .
• History of sociology . 3rd edition, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-4936-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Kruse in the catalog of the German National Library