Volker Heins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 385489 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Volker Heins |
| PRENOMES | Volker |
| SOBRENOME | Heins |
| ASSINATURA | HEINS V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany, and Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Konfliktfeld Natur
Three Meanings of Equality
Saying things that hurt
This article suggests reading Theodor Adorno not as a notoriously pessimistic sociologist but as a committed public educator. Partly drawing on still unpublished transcripts of lectures, public talks and radio broadcasts from the 1950s and '60s, the article offers an account of Adorno's concept and practice of a 'democratic pedagogy'. The key question is how we should understand the difference between Adorno the social philosopher, on the one han…
Beyond Friend and Foe
This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book seeks to establish the relevance of this tradition for contemporary political theory. Readers are offered an inside perspective, developed out of primary t…
Of persons and peoples
The Place of Property in the Politics of Recognition
Critical theory and the traps of conspiracy thinking
Historically, blatantly untrue and defamatory conspiracy theories had disastrous consequences for those who were portrayed in them as evil-doers. At the same time, conspiratorial agreements at the expense of the common good between powerful groups in society do exist and have occasionally been uncovered. Against this background, the article describes different ways in which critical theory has looked at conspiracies. First, an attempt is made to …
Reasons of the Heart
In many fields of contemporary thought and scholarship, the classical construct of a clean division between “emotion” and “reason” has been revised. As a result, politics is no longer seen as a sphere in need of protection against the dark forces of emotion that might creep in where they do not belong. Against the backdrop of this conceptual shift the article examines the theme of emotion in the political thought of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. T…
Orientalising America? Continental Intellectuals and the Search for Europe's Identity
Against the backdrop of the failure of the Constitutional Treaty and rising scepticism about the prospects of the European Union, this article looks at recent attempts by prominent German intellectuals to turn the tide by endowing Europe with a new sense of mission. It is argued that while the crusading writings by Jürgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck and Thomas Meyer on the political identity of Europe effectively criticise cultural essentialism, techno…
Mächtige Zwerge, umstrittene Riesen
Civil Society's Barbarisms
Instead of arguing about elements and boundaries of civil society, recent discussions in social theory have focused on the concept of civil society itself as embedded in different currents of social and political thought. Following up on these discussions, this article reconstructs the concept of civil society by identifying a number of implicit oppositional terms and the respective semantic fields, which in different historical contexts have len…
Weltbürger und Lokalpatrioten. Eine Einführung in das Thema Nichtregierungsorganisationen.
Weltbürger und Lokalpatrioten
Das Andere der Zivilgesellschaft
Das Vokabular der »Zivilgesellschaft«, das in den 80er und 90er Jahren für starke Impulse zur Erneuerung einer kritischen Theorie der Politik sorgte, hat sich in ein ideologisches schwarzes Loch, ein Passepartout für nahezu beliebige Anliegen verwandelt. Um das Profil dieses gewiss auch in Zukunft brisanten Vokabulars zu schärfen, versucht Heins, den Gehalt des alten Begriffs zu bergen, indem er die Kontrastphänomene entziffert, gegen die einst »…
Modernity and life politics
From new political organizations to changing moral geographies
Konfliktfeld Natur. Biologische Ressourcen und globale Politik.
Weber's Ethic and the Spirit of Anti-Capitalism
This article explores Max Weber's critique of socialism in relation to his own diagnosis of modern capitalism and its pathologies. Weber does not defend the capitalist ‘system’ directly against its left-wing critics. Rather, he identifies and denounces those social forces which threaten to undermine the liberal ‘spirit’ of capitalism. One of these forces turns out to be capitalism itself, insofar as it favours the bureaucratization and cartelizat…
Frankenstein unbound
The greening of rational choice Marxism, or bio-wine from sour grapes? Interview with Helmut Wiesenthal
Critical theory and the traps of conspiracy thinking
Historically, blatantly untrue and defamatory conspiracy theories had disastrous consequences for those who were portrayed in them as evil-doers. At the same time, conspiratorial agreements at the expense of the common good between powerful groups in society do exist and have occasionally been uncovered. Against this background, the article describes different ways in which critical theory has looked at conspiracies. First, an attempt is made to …
Modernity and life politics
Of persons and peoples
Reasons of the Heart
In many fields of contemporary thought and scholarship, the classical construct of a clean division between “emotion” and “reason” has been revised. As a result, politics is no longer seen as a sphere in need of protection against the dark forces of emotion that might creep in where they do not belong. Against the backdrop of this conceptual shift the article examines the theme of emotion in the political thought of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. T…
Orientalising America? Continental Intellectuals and the Search for Europe's Identity
Against the backdrop of the failure of the Constitutional Treaty and rising scepticism about the prospects of the European Union, this article looks at recent attempts by prominent German intellectuals to turn the tide by endowing Europe with a new sense of mission. It is argued that while the crusading writings by Jürgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck and Thomas Meyer on the political identity of Europe effectively criticise cultural essentialism, techno…
From new political organizations to changing moral geographies
Saying things that hurt
This article suggests reading Theodor Adorno not as a notoriously pessimistic sociologist but as a committed public educator. Partly drawing on still unpublished transcripts of lectures, public talks and radio broadcasts from the 1950s and '60s, the article offers an account of Adorno's concept and practice of a 'democratic pedagogy'. The key question is how we should understand the difference between Adorno the social philosopher, on the one han…
Weber's Ethic and the Spirit of Anti-Capitalism
This article explores Max Weber's critique of socialism in relation to his own diagnosis of modern capitalism and its pathologies. Weber does not defend the capitalist ‘system’ directly against its left-wing critics. Rather, he identifies and denounces those social forces which threaten to undermine the liberal ‘spirit’ of capitalism. One of these forces turns out to be capitalism itself, insofar as it favours the bureaucratization and cartelizat…
Civil Society's Barbarisms
Instead of arguing about elements and boundaries of civil society, recent discussions in social theory have focused on the concept of civil society itself as embedded in different currents of social and political thought. Following up on these discussions, this article reconstructs the concept of civil society by identifying a number of implicit oppositional terms and the respective semantic fields, which in different historical contexts have len…
The Place of Property in the Politics of Recognition
Das Andere der Zivilgesellschaft
Das Vokabular der »Zivilgesellschaft«, das in den 80er und 90er Jahren für starke Impulse zur Erneuerung einer kritischen Theorie der Politik sorgte, hat sich in ein ideologisches schwarzes Loch, ein Passepartout für nahezu beliebige Anliegen verwandelt. Um das Profil dieses gewiss auch in Zukunft brisanten Vokabulars zu schärfen, versucht Heins, den Gehalt des alten Begriffs zu bergen, indem er die Kontrastphänomene entziffert, gegen die einst »…
The greening of rational choice Marxism, or bio-wine from sour grapes? Interview with Helmut Wiesenthal
The greening of rational choice Marxism, or bio-wine from sour grapes? Interview with Helmut Wiesenthal
Frankenstein unbound
Weber's Ethic and the Spirit of Anti-Capitalism
This article explores Max Weber's critique of socialism in relation to his own diagnosis of modern capitalism and its pathologies. Weber does not defend the capitalist ‘system’ directly against its left-wing critics. Rather, he identifies and denounces those social forces which threaten to undermine the liberal ‘spirit’ of capitalism. One of these forces turns out to be capitalism itself, insofar as it favours the bureaucratization and cartelizat…
Konfliktfeld Natur. Biologische Ressourcen und globale Politik.
From new political organizations to changing moral geographies
Weltbürger und Lokalpatrioten. Eine Einführung in das Thema Nichtregierungsorganisationen.
Weltbürger und Lokalpatrioten
Das Andere der Zivilgesellschaft
Das Vokabular der »Zivilgesellschaft«, das in den 80er und 90er Jahren für starke Impulse zur Erneuerung einer kritischen Theorie der Politik sorgte, hat sich in ein ideologisches schwarzes Loch, ein Passepartout für nahezu beliebige Anliegen verwandelt. Um das Profil dieses gewiss auch in Zukunft brisanten Vokabulars zu schärfen, versucht Heins, den Gehalt des alten Begriffs zu bergen, indem er die Kontrastphänomene entziffert, gegen die einst »…
Modernity and life politics
Civil Society's Barbarisms
Instead of arguing about elements and boundaries of civil society, recent discussions in social theory have focused on the concept of civil society itself as embedded in different currents of social and political thought. Following up on these discussions, this article reconstructs the concept of civil society by identifying a number of implicit oppositional terms and the respective semantic fields, which in different historical contexts have len…
Mächtige Zwerge, umstrittene Riesen
Orientalising America? Continental Intellectuals and the Search for Europe's Identity
Against the backdrop of the failure of the Constitutional Treaty and rising scepticism about the prospects of the European Union, this article looks at recent attempts by prominent German intellectuals to turn the tide by endowing Europe with a new sense of mission. It is argued that while the crusading writings by Jürgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck and Thomas Meyer on the political identity of Europe effectively criticise cultural essentialism, techno…
Critical theory and the traps of conspiracy thinking
Historically, blatantly untrue and defamatory conspiracy theories had disastrous consequences for those who were portrayed in them as evil-doers. At the same time, conspiratorial agreements at the expense of the common good between powerful groups in society do exist and have occasionally been uncovered. Against this background, the article describes different ways in which critical theory has looked at conspiracies. First, an attempt is made to …
Reasons of the Heart
In many fields of contemporary thought and scholarship, the classical construct of a clean division between “emotion” and “reason” has been revised. As a result, politics is no longer seen as a sphere in need of protection against the dark forces of emotion that might creep in where they do not belong. Against the backdrop of this conceptual shift the article examines the theme of emotion in the political thought of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. T…
The Place of Property in the Politics of Recognition
Of persons and peoples
Beyond Friend and Foe
This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book seeks to establish the relevance of this tradition for contemporary political theory. Readers are offered an inside perspective, developed out of primary t…
Three Meanings of Equality
Saying things that hurt
This article suggests reading Theodor Adorno not as a notoriously pessimistic sociologist but as a committed public educator. Partly drawing on still unpublished transcripts of lectures, public talks and radio broadcasts from the 1950s and '60s, the article offers an account of Adorno's concept and practice of a 'democratic pedagogy'. The key question is how we should understand the difference between Adorno the social philosopher, on the one han…
Konfliktfeld Natur
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