Nico Stehr
Nico Stehr (*1942) is "Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies" at the Zeppelin University,Friedrichshafen, Germany, a private college start-up.
He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1970. Between 1967 and 2000, he taught at American and Canadian universities. His last appointment in Canada was that of fellow in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professor (a visiting appointment) at the University of Vienna. He is Senior Research Fellow of the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, a fellow of the Fellow the Center for Advanved Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology (until 2006) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada).
His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in different social institutions of modern society (e.g. science, politics, and the economy).
Books
- (ed. with Rene Koenig) Wissenschaftssoziologie. Studien und Matrialien. Sonderheft 18 der Koelner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychlogie (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975);
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim, Strukturen des Denkens (Suhrkamp, 1981; zweite Auflage 2003)
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim: Structures of Thought (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982);
- (ed. with Volker Meja) Streit um die Wissenssoziologie (Suhrkamp, 1982);
- (with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim (Tavistock, 1984);
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim, Konsrevativismus (Suhrkmap, 1984; zweite Auflage 2003);
- (ed. with Volker Meja) Knowledge and Society: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge (Transaction Books, 1984);
- (ed. with Gernot Boehme) Knowledge Society (D. Reidel Publishing, 1986);
- Praktische Erkenntnis (Suhrkamp, 1991);
- Practical Knowledge. Applying Social Science Knowledge (Sage, 1992);
- Knowledge Societies (Sage, 1994)
- Arbeit, Eigentum und Wissen: Zur Theorie von Wissensgesellschaften (Suhrkmap, 1994);
- (with Hans von Storch) Klima-Wetter-Mensch (C.H. Beck, 1999)
- Die Zerbrechlichkeit moderner Gesellschaften. Die Grenzen der Macht und die Chancen des Individuums (Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000);
- (ed. with Peter Weingart) Practising Interdisciplinarity (Universiy of Toronto Press, 2000);
- (ed. with Richard V. Ericson) Governing Modern Societies (University of Toronto Press, 2000);
- Wissen und Wirtschaften: Die gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen der modernen Ökonomie (Suhrkamp, 2001);
- The Fragility of Modern Societies: Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age (Sage, 2001);
- (ed. with Reiner Grundmann) Werner Sombart, Economic Life in the Modern Age (Transaction Publishers, 2001);
- Knowledge and Economic Conduct. The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy (University of Toronto Press, 2002);
- Wissenspolitik: Die Überwachung des Wissens (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003);
- (ed.) The Governance of Knowledge (Transaction Books, 2004);
- (ed.) Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004);
- (ed. with Christian Fleck) Die Gesellschaft des Terrors: Innansichten der KZs Dachau und Buchenwald (Suhrkamp, 2004);
- (ed. with Reiner Grundmann), Knowledge. Fuenf Baende (Routledge, 2005};
- Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology (Paradigm Books, 2005);
- (ed. with Voker Meja) Society and Knowledge. Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge and Science (Transaction Publihsers, 2005)
- Moral Markets. How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Producers (Paradigm Publishers, 2007);
- Die Moralisierung der Maerkte (Suhrkamp, 2007);
- (ed. with Christian Fleck) Paul F. Lazarsfeld: Empirische Theorie des Handelns (Suhrkamp, 2007).