Wolf Schäfer
Biographic Data
| ID | 212649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolf Schäfer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Schäfer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÄFER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age
(Fletcher & Frank), macrohistory (global history and/or world history), multiple modernities (Eisenstadt), translational theory (Chakrabarty) Some fifteen years ago, I imagined the Global Age in the plural guided by the “Middle Ages ” as a sequence of eras: This was not an outlandish thought in 1995. The following year, Martin Albrow published The Global Age – in the early 1990s, the dialectic of beginning and end was widely felt. Of course, it w…
Knowledge and Nature
This contribution revisits the dictum "history is the teacher of life" (historia magistra vitae) and shows that modern knowledge-societies are beginning to use their growing information about natural and human history to address present-day problems. Starting with Leopold von Ranke's refusal to investigate history for the benefit of learning from it, the essay cites two contemporary attempts at extracting useful knowledge from history: "real-worl…
Wirtschaftspolitik im Systemwettbewerb
Globalisierung beschreibt einen weltweiten Prozeß sinkender Kosten der Überwindung von Raum und Zeit. Sie ist ein weltweites Programm der Mehrung von Exit-Optionen für die Privaten. Ihnen bieten sich zunehmende Möglichkeiten des physischen oder funktionalen Verlassens einer Jurisdiktion. -- Die institutionellen Arrangements werden damit in einen Wettbewerbskontext gestellt: Standortgebundene Institutionen stehen in Kosten-Nutzen-Kalkülen mobiler …
Big History, the Whole Story, and Nothing Less
Global Civilization and Local Cultures
This article distinguishes between civilization and culture in the tradition of Alfred Weber and Robert Merton. Civilization denotes the human control of nature and is used in the singular; culture indicates the social construction of meaning and is used in the plural. Civilization is also the term for the social-natural whole, and culture for the local parts of the whole. The renewed distinction between civilization and culture aims to correct t…
Boris Hessen And The Politics Of The Sociology Of Science
Collective thinking from below
Schattenwechselkurse in Projektevaluierungen
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
A note on the Social Natural Science Project (SNSP)
Finalization in perspective
Der Euro-Dollarmarkt
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
Global Civilization and Local Cultures
This article distinguishes between civilization and culture in the tradition of Alfred Weber and Robert Merton. Civilization denotes the human control of nature and is used in the singular; culture indicates the social construction of meaning and is used in the plural. Civilization is also the term for the social-natural whole, and culture for the local parts of the whole. The renewed distinction between civilization and culture aims to correct t…
Finalization in perspective
Der Euro-Dollarmarkt
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
Finalization in perspective
Schattenwechselkurse in Projektevaluierungen
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
A note on the Social Natural Science Project (SNSP)
Collective thinking from below
Boris Hessen And The Politics Of The Sociology Of Science
Global Civilization and Local Cultures
This article distinguishes between civilization and culture in the tradition of Alfred Weber and Robert Merton. Civilization denotes the human control of nature and is used in the singular; culture indicates the social construction of meaning and is used in the plural. Civilization is also the term for the social-natural whole, and culture for the local parts of the whole. The renewed distinction between civilization and culture aims to correct t…
Wirtschaftspolitik im Systemwettbewerb
Globalisierung beschreibt einen weltweiten Prozeß sinkender Kosten der Überwindung von Raum und Zeit. Sie ist ein weltweites Programm der Mehrung von Exit-Optionen für die Privaten. Ihnen bieten sich zunehmende Möglichkeiten des physischen oder funktionalen Verlassens einer Jurisdiktion. -- Die institutionellen Arrangements werden damit in einen Wettbewerbskontext gestellt: Standortgebundene Institutionen stehen in Kosten-Nutzen-Kalkülen mobiler …
Big History, the Whole Story, and Nothing Less
Knowledge and Nature
This contribution revisits the dictum "history is the teacher of life" (historia magistra vitae) and shows that modern knowledge-societies are beginning to use their growing information about natural and human history to address present-day problems. Starting with Leopold von Ranke's refusal to investigate history for the benefit of learning from it, the essay cites two contemporary attempts at extracting useful knowledge from history: "real-worl…
Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age
(Fletcher & Frank), macrohistory (global history and/or world history), multiple modernities (Eisenstadt), translational theory (Chakrabarty) Some fifteen years ago, I imagined the Global Age in the plural guided by the “Middle Ages ” as a sequence of eras: This was not an outlandish thought in 1995. The following year, Martin Albrow published The Global Age – in the early 1990s, the dialectic of beginning and end was widely felt. Of course, it w…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)