Wolfgang Schluchter

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Wolfgang Schluchter (born April 4, 1938 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German sociologist.

His main research interests are sociological theory ( Max Weber ), cultural sociology , religious sociology and German social history . He is co-editor of the Max Weber Complete Edition at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Scientific career

Schluchter studied at the Universities of Stuttgart , Tübingen and Munich and at the Free University of Berlin ( sociology , economics , political science , philosophy ). Diploma and doctorate from the Free University of Berlin, habilitation in sociology from the University of Mannheim .

He was a professor of social science at the University of Düsseldorf and from 1976 professor at the University of Heidelberg . From 1991 to 1992 he was the founding director for sociology and political science at the University of Leipzig , and from 1997 to 2002 he was seconded to the reconstruction of the University of Erfurt . In Erfurt he worked as a Max Weber Professor, Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics, Founding Dean of the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies and Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. From 2007 to 2014 he set up the Marsilius College at Heidelberg University together with Hans-Georg Kräusslich .

As a visiting professor he worked at the universities: University of Singapore ; University of Pittsburgh ; New School for Social Research , New York; University of California at Berkeley ; Chinese University of Hong Kong ; University of Leipzig .

Schluchter edited various specialist journals, such as the Sociological Revue , the Journal for Sociology and the Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology (for 13 years). He is the editor of 6 commentary volumes on Max Weber's sociology of religion and several volumes of the Max Weber Complete Edition.

He has been a member of the German Society for Sociology since 1973 , including 4 years as deputy chairman. From 1976 to 2006 he was a regular director of the Institute for Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, then of the newly founded Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1987 to 1997 a member of the Administrative Board of the University of Heidelberg. From 1990 to 2003 he was a member of various committees of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . a. the selection committee for the award of research awards to foreign guest researchers, from 2001 to 2003 as chairman. From 2000 to 2006 he was a member of the Science Council . He has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1992 and an external member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (Italy) since 2004.

In 1993 Wolfgang Schluchter was honored with the Caspar Borner Medal of the University of Leipzig , in 2001 with the Federal Cross of Merit and the Erwin Stein Prize. In 1994 he and Shmuel N. Eisenstadt received the Max Planck Research Award . In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Erfurt. In 2007 he was awarded the Great University Medal of Heidelberg University. 2006 Schluchter retired . His successor in the chair was Thomas Schwinn .

Schluchter is married and has a daughter and two sons. He lives near Heidelberg.

Fonts

Schluchter has undertaken to reconstruct and continue Max Weber's research program of a “problem-dependent analysis of the sequence of structural principles without claim to universal history”. In The Development of Occidental Rationalism , he had initially called Weber's project " social history ". In a new edition of the font under the title The emergence of modern rationalism. However , he withdrew this designation from an analysis of Max Weber's history of the development of the West because it had now become clear to him that Weber's concept of “ society ” was replaced by the concept of order .

The authentic reconstruction of Weber's work is about isolating the additions of the previous editors and working out Weber's changing problem in the sequence of the manuscripts that have been handed down. In dealing with the interpretation put forward by Friedrich H. Tenbruck , the main question is to what extent Weber himself strived for a development theory .

"Methodologically, it is about the 'evolution-theoretical status' of this research program, factually about the problem of social rationalization, about a substantial empirical-historical theory of rationalization."

- Wolfgang Schluchter

Schluchter links Weber's approach with the macro-sociological debate between Niklas Luhmann and Jürgen Habermas , but also ties in with Émile Durkheim , Talcott Parsons and Immanuel Kant . For Weber's methodological orientation, he emphasizes the relevance of the relevant writings from Baden Neo-Kantianism , in particular by Heinrich Rickert and Emil Lask . This is explained in more detail in the works Religion and Lifestyle as well as Fundamentals of Sociology , two volumes each.

evaluation

M. Rainer Lepsius , when Schluchter was awarded the Great University Medal in May 2007: "Without Wolfgang Schluchter's presence in Heidelberg, the 'spirit' of Max Weber, with which Heidelberg likes to adorn itself, would again be a pale memory."

Publications

  • (Ed.): Behavior, action and system. Talcott Parsons' contribution to the development of the social sciences , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-27910-6 .
  • Decision for the social rule of law. Hermann Heller and the political theory discussion in the Weimar Republic. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1968. (2nd edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1983, ISBN 3-7890-0967-9 ) (translated into Japanese).
  • Freedom of value and ethics of responsibility. On the relationship between science and politics in Max Weber. Society and science. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1971, ISBN 3-16-532621-5 (translated into Japanese ).
  • The Development of Occidental Rationalism. An analysis of Max Weber's social history. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1979. (2nd edition under the title: The emergence of modern rationalism. An analysis of Max Weber's history of the development of the West. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-28947-0 ) ( into English, Italian, Japanese and Chinese transl.).
  • with Guenther Roth: Max Weber's Vision of History. Ethics and Methods. University of California Press, Berkeley 1979. (2nd edition. 1984, ISBN 0-520-05226-9 .)
  • Aspects of bureaucratic rule. Studies on the interpretation of the advancing industrial society. Paul List, Munich 1972. (2nd edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-28092-9 .)
  • Rationalism of world domination. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-07922-0 (into English, Italian, Japanese and Chinese transl.).
  • Religion and lifestyle. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, study edition 1991. Volume 1: Studies on Max Weber's culture and value theory. ISBN 3-518-28561-0 , Volume 2: Studies on Max Weber's sociology of religion and rule. ISBN 3-518-28562-9 (partly translated into Japanese).
  • Rationalism, Religion, and Domination. A Weberian Perspective. University of California Press, Berkeley 1989, ISBN 0-520-05659-0 .
  • Individual freedom and social bond. Winter, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-8253-0187-7 .
  • Paradoxes of Modernity. Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1996, ISBN 0-8047-2455-5 (ins. Translated).
  • Unreconciled modernity. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-28828-8 .
  • New beginning through adaptation? Studies on the East German transition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-28863-6 .
  • Religion and rationalism. In: Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Wolfgang Schwentker (eds.): Max Weber and modern Japan. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999.
  • Individualism, ethics of responsibility and diversity. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2000, ISBN 3-934730-22-1 .
  • W. Schluchter, SN Eisenstadt, B. Wittrock (Ed.): Public Spheres and Collective Identities. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2000.
  • Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber on Islam. In: Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter (Eds.): Max Weber and Islam. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2000.
  • Psychophysics and Culture. In: Stephen Turner (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Weber. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000.
  • Action and structure theory according to Max Weber. In: Berlin Journal for Sociology. Issue 1, 2000, pp. 125-136.
  • Legal sociology as an empirical theory of validity. In: Horst Dreier (ed.): Legal sociology at the end of the 20th century. Memorial symposium for Edgar Michael Wenz. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 2000.
  • Max Weber: Economy and Society. Outline of understanding sociology (1921/22). In: Walter Erhart, Herbert Jaumann (Ed.): Century books. Great theories from Freud to Luhmann. Beck, Munich 2000.
  • with Peter E. Quint (Ed.): The Unification Shock - A Comparative Consideration Ten Years Later . Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2001, ISBN 3-934730-44-2 .
  • (Ed.): Fundamentalism, terrorism, war. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2003, ISBN 3-934730-67-1 .
  • with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (ed.): Ascetic Protestantism and the 'spirit' of modern capitalism. Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch. Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148546-7 .
  • Action, order, culture. Studies on a research program following Max Weber. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148545-9 (translated into Spanish).
  • The disenchantment of the world. Six studies on Max Weber. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-150139-5 (in Port. Translated).
  • Foundations of Sociology. A history of theory with a systematic intention. 2 volumes, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006 and 2007. ((= UTB. Volume. 4363). 2nd edition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4263-3 .)
  • Max Weber's late sociology. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-153383-9 .
  • Act in context . New studies on a research program following Max Weber. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-155683-8 .
  • With Max Weber. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-16-159018-4 .

literature

  • Responsible action in social order. Contributions to Wolfgang Schluchter's religion and lifestyle . Edited by Agathe Bienfait and Gerhard Wagner, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-28948-9 .
  • Theory history with a systematic intention. Wolfgang Schluchter's “Fundamentals of Sociology” in the discussion. Published by Hans-Peter Müller and Steffen Sigmund, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-153621-2 .

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schluchter: The Development of Occidental Rationalism. An analysis of Max Weber's social history. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-16-541532-3 , p. 13.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schluchter: Foreword to the paperback edition. In: ders: The emergence of modern rationalism. An analysis of Max Weber's history of the development of the Occident. 1st edition. Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-28947-0 , pp. 16f.
  3. ^ Friedrich H. Tenbruck: The work of Max Weber. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. Volume 27, 1975, p. 663.
  4. ↑ Preface to the paperback edition. In: ders: The emergence of modern rationalism. An analysis of Max Weber's history of the development of the Occident. 1st edition. Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-28947-0 , p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Schluchter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg