Winfried Thaa

Winfried Thaa (born February 28, 1952 in Tuttlingen ) is a German political scientist and professor of political theory and the history of ideas at the University of Trier .

Thaa studied political science, philosophy and German at the University of Tübingen and the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1982 with a thesis on "Rule as Objectification". His habilitation took place at the University of Tübingen in 1995 with the habilitation thesis “The rebirth of the political. Civil Society and the Conflict of Legitimacy in the Revolutions of 1989 ”.

This was followed by teaching activities at the universities in Tübingen, Denver, Co., Ann Arbor, Mi. and Bologna.

Thaa's research focuses on democratic theory , political representation , cultural criticism and political thinking in the 20th century (especially Hannah Arendt's thinking ) as well as in the context of globalization, civil society, and democracy. He headed the sub-project C7 “ Forms and Functioning of Political Representation of Strangers and Poor in the Federal Republic ” in the Collaborative Research Center 600 “Foreignness and Poverty” at the University of Trier.

Web links

• Homepage of Prof. Thaa at the University of Trier
• 16vor -Interview with Prof. Thaa on the Trier participatory budget "Heuss should have been more careful" ( Memento from December 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); June 27, 2010.
• Presentation of the SFB 600 and excerpts from a Deutschlandfunk interview with Prof. Thaa Who doesn't work shouldn't eat either? Trier research association analyzes the handling of the socially disadvantaged in the past and today ; May 15, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52378
2. ↑ https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52378
3. ^ Homepage of Prof. Thaa at the University of Trier.
4. ↑ Presentation of the sub-project