Wolf Lepenies
Biographic Data
| ID | 218405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolf Lepenies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Lepenies |
| SIGNATURE | LEPENIES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
« Une personnalité, c’est une institution à elle seule ». Souvenirs à propos de Clemens Heller
Pour Marie-Louise Heller De 1965 à 1992, Clemens Heller a encouragé de manière déterminante, d’abord comme adjoint de Fernand Braudel, ensuite comme administrateur de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, le développement des sciences sociales, en France et bien au-delà. Le 6 juillet 2017, il aurait fêté son 100e anniversaire : une « personne hors norme », ainsi que Jacob Burckhardt l’aurait appelé. Se souvenir de lui, c’est confirmer le jugement de…
Die Idee der Universität: Versuch Einer Standortbestimmung
Ironic Politics - Politics of the Future?
The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned scholars who address different aspects of his ambitious research program as well as current trends in the institutionalization of the social and human scienc…
Schader-Preis 2010 für Professor Wolf Lepenies
Conversation between Wolf Lepenies and Jeremy Adelman about Albert Hirschman: Paris, 16 April, 2010
Wolf Lepenies is one of Germany's most original homme de lettres. He is known to us for his sweeping essays and books, his prominence as president of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and as a professor of sociology at the Free University. But we introduce him here as a friend of Albert O. Hirschman's, as a close associate for many creative years for both of them at the Institute for Advanced Study, and as a key figure in the introduction of Hirs…
Dankesrede anlässlich der Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels 2006 am 8. Oktober 2006 in der Frankfurter Paulskirche
The Seduction of Culture in German History
During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German H…
On Society & Sociology Past & Present
La culture, substitut de la politique: Un Problème Allemand
Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the …
Culture, politics and the European intelligentsia
A distinctive German culture no longer exists, it has become merged into Western culture. De-Nazification foundered and the old elites and the émigrés re-emerged and came together. The November revolution in the GDR was not one of either the workers or of a cultural elite but one of the grassroots, the ordinary people; however the GDR lacked any cultural modernity. When a country loses a war, cultural policy has to serve the need for revenge. Fra…
Scholarship after the end of history
We are living in a period of great changes in public attitudes, particularly in Eastern Europe. These changes affect our mental attitudes, employment patterns and economic prospects. These and other aspects of modern life are reviewed. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Nekrolog auf Dieter Claessens
Melancholy and Society
L'esthétisme sceptique et ses limites en histoire de la sociologie
Chazel François. L'esthétisme sceptique et ses limites en histoire de la sociologie. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1993, 34-2. pp. 247-269
Melancholy and society
Wandel wie noch nie: Wissenschaft und Kultur im heutigen Europa
The Failure of the Interpreting Class or Intellectuals in the Two Germanies
Wolf Lepenies, The Failure of the Interpreting Class or Intellectuals in the Two Germanies, New Literary History, Vol. 22, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1991), pp. 911-925
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
Les trois cultures: Entre science et littérature, l'avènement de la sociologie
La cour d'honneur de la Sorbonne est domínée par deux statues - celle de Víctor Hugo et celle de Louis Pasteur - un poète et un homme de science. C'est à I'extérieur, sur la place de la Sorbonne, que se trouve le monument à Auguste Comte, fondateur et patron de la sociologie. Tandis que la littérature et les sciences avaient leur place assurée à l'intérieur de l'Université, la sociologie a dû conquerir le droit d'y entrer. Ce livre restitue la lu…
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Ideas in Context
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
Die Idee der Universität
Between literature and science: The Rise of Sociology
Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the …
Die drei Kulturen: Soziologie zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
Geschichte der Soziologie: Studien zur Kognitiven, Sozialen und Historischen Identitaet Einer Disziplin
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
Linnaeus's Nemesis divina and the Concept of Divine Retaliation
History and anthropology. A historical appraisal of the current contact between the disciplines
L'esthétisme sceptique et ses limites en histoire de la sociologie
Chazel François. L'esthétisme sceptique et ses limites en histoire de la sociologie. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1993, 34-2. pp. 247-269
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
Norbert Elias: An Outsider Full of Unprejudiced Insight
The history of the sciences has the considerable advantage over other kinds of history that historical errors are easier to correct in it than elsewhere, and that the admission of mistakes strengthens rather than weakens scientific integrity. In discussing and reevaluating the work of Norbert Elias, we want to show a larger public what worldwide recognition has come in recent years to a scholar's work which was long, indeed too long, known only t…
Conversation between Wolf Lepenies and Jeremy Adelman about Albert Hirschman: Paris, 16 April, 2010
Wolf Lepenies is one of Germany's most original homme de lettres. He is known to us for his sweeping essays and books, his prominence as president of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and as a professor of sociology at the Free University. But we introduce him here as a friend of Albert O. Hirschman's, as a close associate for many creative years for both of them at the Institute for Advanced Study, and as a key figure in the introduction of Hirs…
La culture, substitut de la politique: Un Problème Allemand
The Failure of the Interpreting Class or Intellectuals in the Two Germanies
Wolf Lepenies, The Failure of the Interpreting Class or Intellectuals in the Two Germanies, New Literary History, Vol. 22, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1991), pp. 911-925
Cold reason and culture of the feelings: Social science, literature and the end of the Enlightenment
Contribution à une histoire des rapports entre la sociologie et la philosophie
Contribution à une histoire sociologie et la philosophie. Comme la vieille dame disparue d'Alfred Hitchcock, la philosophie peut reparaître là où on ne l'attendait pas. En comparant des moments historiques de l'espace des disciplines, en Allemagne et en France, on peut interroger le système de relations complexe entre la philosophie, la psychologie expérimentale et la sociologie et observer, dans les jeunes disciplines, une alternance de l'emprun…
The critique of learning and science, and the crisis of orientation
Experimental Anthropology and Emancipatory Practice (Reflections on Marx and Freud)
(1972). Experimental Anthropology and Emancipatory Practice (Reflections on Marx and Freud) International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 2, Current Issues in German Sociological Theory (Part II), pp. 4-72
Lévi-Strauss and the Structuralist Reading of Marx
(1974). Levi-Strauss and the Structuralist Reading of Marx. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 4, Issues in the Marxian Theory of History, pp. 15-81
History and anthropology. A historical appraisal of the current contact between the disciplines
Problems of a Historical Study of Science
Working-class culture. Sociological comments on the currency of a concept
Toward an Interdisciplinary History of Science
Norbert Elias: An Outsider Full of Unprejudiced Insight
The history of the sciences has the considerable advantage over other kinds of history that historical errors are easier to correct in it than elsewhere, and that the admission of mistakes strengthens rather than weakens scientific integrity. In discussing and reevaluating the work of Norbert Elias, we want to show a larger public what worldwide recognition has come in recent years to a scholar's work which was long, indeed too long, known only t…
De l'histoire naturelle à l'histoire de la nature
Wolf Lepenies : From natural history to the history of nature. The last third of the 18th Century was decisive for the history of science. Some important tendencies of modern scientific thought can be seen in three works published in 1778, namely the Nouveaux éléments de la science de l'homme by Paul-Joseph Barthez, the Epoques de la Nature by Buffon, and the German anthropologist Georg Forster's inaugurai address to the Society of Antiquities in…
Hommes de science et écrivains. Les fonctions conservatoires de la littéroture
The critique of learning and science, and the crisis of orientation
Human Ethology, Sociobiology, Biosociology
Geschichte der Soziologie: Studien zur Kognitiven, Sozialen und Historischen Identitaet Einer Disziplin
Linnaeus's Nemesis divina and the Concept of Divine Retaliation
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Contribution à une histoire des rapports entre la sociologie et la philosophie
Contribution à une histoire sociologie et la philosophie. Comme la vieille dame disparue d'Alfred Hitchcock, la philosophie peut reparaître là où on ne l'attendait pas. En comparant des moments historiques de l'espace des disciplines, en Allemagne et en France, on peut interroger le système de relations complexe entre la philosophie, la psychologie expérimentale et la sociologie et observer, dans les jeunes disciplines, une alternance de l'emprun…
Die drei Kulturen: Soziologie zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft
Cold reason and culture of the feelings: Social science, literature and the end of the Enlightenment
Die Idee der Universität
Between literature and science: The Rise of Sociology
Die Idee der deutschen Universität — ein Blick von außen
Between Social Science and Poetry in Germany
Germany's socio-political backwardness compared with her western neighbors was the continual theme of German self-examination up to the twentieth century. If there is such a thing as German ideology, it is not so much in tracing the causes of this backwardness and contemplating a remedy but rather in opposing-in a blend of defiance and distress-Romanticism to Enlightenment, a society of estates to industrial society, the Medieval to the modern, c…
Les trois cultures: Entre science et littérature, l'avènement de la sociologie
La cour d'honneur de la Sorbonne est domínée par deux statues - celle de Víctor Hugo et celle de Louis Pasteur - un poète et un homme de science. C'est à I'extérieur, sur la place de la Sorbonne, que se trouve le monument à Auguste Comte, fondateur et patron de la sociologie. Tandis que la littérature et les sciences avaient leur place assurée à l'intérieur de l'Université, la sociologie a dû conquerir le droit d'y entrer. Ce livre restitue la lu…
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Ideas in Context
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
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