Nico Stehr

Nico Stehr (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German cultural theorist, sociologist and owner of the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Life

From 1967 to 2000 he taught at American and Canadian universities and research, most recently as Research Professor at the "Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study ", University of British Columbia in Vancouver ( Canada). During this time he was co-founder and editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology. The title of his 1986 book ( with Gernot Böhme ) The Knowledge Society (" The Knowledge Society ") was in the scientific, political and economic context a dictum.

In the academic year 2002/2003 he was " Paul Lazarsfeld Professor " of the human and social sciences faculty of the University of Vienna. He is " Senior Research Fellow" on "Sustainable Development Research Institute ", University of British Columbia ( Vancouver ), " Fellow " of the " Institute for Cultural Studies Food " and the " Royal Society of Canada" ( Ottawa ) as well as co-founder and editor (until 2006 ) of the "Canadian Journal of Sociology ."

Since 2004 Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University in private Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance.

From 2006 to 2009 he headed at Zeppelin University a three-year project supported by the European Commission research project on the socio-political handling of the so-called "Converging Technologies " (ie, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information science and cognitive science ).

In 2011 he founded the European Centre for Sustainability Studies ( ECS) at the Zeppelin University.

Stehr works closely with the Hamburg climatologist Hans von Storch on the controversy about global warming among others. He is one of the authors of the Hartwell paper realignment of climate policy after the collapse of 2009. This paper is the result of one of the London School of Economics (LSE ) in February 2010, convened the meeting to reflect on the consequences of the development of climate policy in late 2009.

The Hartwell Paper therefore proposes to make the principle of human dignity to the guiding principle of our efforts, and indeed mediated through the pursuit of three cross- goals: ensure that there is access to energy for all; ensure that we do not develop in a way that undermines the essential functional processes of the Earth system; ensure that our companies are well equipped to deal with the risks and hazards associated with the vagaries of climate, whatever their cause.

The Hartwell paper explains radical and practical ways of human-induced reduction, non- CO2-based climate change. It argues that a better, disconnected from the CO2 policy dealing with climate risks is a fully valid political goal. It explains the political conditions of energy savings strategies as a first step and shows how real emission reductions can be reached with him. Above all, it emphasizes the primacy of accelerated decarbonisation of energy supply. This requires investment in innovative development of CO2-free energy sources are increasingly required to achieve a diversification of energy supply technologies. The ultimate goal is the development of a CO2 - free energy supply, and at a cost that are also without subsidies at the cost of a fossil fuel-based energy supply. The Hartwell Paper recommends a financing of this task with a low, purpose-built CO2 tax.

Awards

Before 2010: Member of the Royal Society of Canada
2011: Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Works (selection)

(Ed. with René König ) sociology of science. Studies and materials. Special Issue 18 of the Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (West German publishing house, 1975); ISBN 3-531-11326-7
(Ed. with Volker Meja and David Kettler ) Karl Mannheim, structures of thought ( Suhrkamp, 1981, second edition 2003); ISBN 978-3518278987
(Ed. with Volker Meja and David Kettler ): Karl Mannheim: Structures of Thinking ( Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982); ISBN 978-0710009364
(Ed. with Volker Meja ) dispute about the sociology of knowledge ( Suhrkamp, 1982); ISBN 978-3518279618
( with Volker Meja and David Kettler ) Karl Mannheim ( Tavistock, 1984); ISBN 978-0853126881
(Ed. with Volker Meja and David Kettler ) Karl Mannheim, Conservatism ( Suhrkamp, 1984, second edition 2003); ISBN 978-3518280782
(Ed. with Volker Meja ) Knowledge and Society: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge ( Transaction Books, 1984 );
(Ed. with Gernot Böhme ) Knowledge Society ( D. Reidel Publishing, 1986); ISBN 978-9027723055
Practical knowledge ( Suhrkamp, 1991); ISBN 3-518-58099- X
Practical Knowledge. Applying Social Science Knowledge (Sage, 1992); ISBN 0-8039-8699-8
(Ed. with Richard V. Ericson ) The Culture and Power of Knowledge. Inquiries into Contemporary Societies ( de Gruyter, 1992); ISBN 3-11-013175-7
Knowledge Societies (Sage, 1994); ISBN 0-8039-7892-8
Labor, property, and Knowledge: On the theory of knowledge societies ( Suhrkamp, 1994); ISBN 3-518-58187-2
( with Hans von Storch ) Climate - Weather - Human (CH Beck, 1999); ISBN 3-406-44613-2
(Ed. with Volker Meja ) The Sociology of Knowledge International Library of Sociology ( Elgar, 1999); ISBN 1-85898-588-9
The fragility of modern societies. The limits of power and the chances of the individual ( Velbrück Science, 2000); ISBN 3-934730-18-3
(Ed. with Hans von Storch ) Eduard Bruckner: The Sources and Consequences of Climate Change and Climate Variability in Historical Times ( Kluwer, 2000); ISBN 0-7923-6128-8
(Ed. with Peter Weingart ) Practising Interdisciplinarity ( University of Toronto Press, 2000 ); ISBN 0-8020-4328-3
(Ed. with Richard V. Ericson ) Governing Modern Societies ( University of Toronto Press, 2000 ); ISBN 978-0802043924
Knowledge and economies. The social foundations of modern economics ( Suhrkamp, 2001); ISBN 3-518-29107-6
The Fragility of Modern Societies. Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age (Sage, 2001); ISBN 9780761953487
(Ed. with Reiner Grundmann ): Werner Sombart, Economic Life in the Modern Age ( Transaction Publishers, 2001); ISBN 0-7658-0030-6
Knowledge and Economic Conduct. The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy ( University of Toronto Press, 2002 ); ISBN 0-8020-0905-0
Knowledge policy. The monitoring of knowledge ( Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003 ); ISBN 3-518-29215-3
(Ed.) The Governance of Knowledge ( Transaction Publishers, 2004); ISBN 0-7658-0172-8
(Ed.) Biotechnology Between Commerce and Civil Society ( Transaction Publishers, 2004); ISBN 0-7658-0224-4
(Ed. with Christian Fleck ) Paul Neurath: The Company of terror. Interior views of the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald ( Suhrkamp, 2004);
(Ed. with Reiner Grundmann ), Knowledge, 5 volumes ( Routledge, 2005 }; ISBN 0-415-35341-6
Knowledge Politics. Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology ( Paradigm Publishers, 2005); ISBN 1-59451-086-5
(Ed. with Volker Meja ) Society and Knowledge. Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge and Science ( Transaction Publishers, 2005); ISBN 0-7658-0295-3
(Ed. with Stephan A. Jansen and P. Birger Priddat ) demographics. Movements of a society in retirement. Multidisciplinary perspectives on Demography Impact Research (VS Publishing for Social Sciences, 2005); ISBN 3-531-14780-3
(Ed. with Christian Fleck ) Paul Neurath: The Society of Terror. Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps ( Paradigm Publishers, 2005); ISBN 1-59451-094-6
The moralization of the markets ( Suhrkamp, 2007); ISBN 978-3-518-29431-4
(Ed. with Christian Fleck ) Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Empirical analysis of action ( Suhrkamp, 2007); ISBN 978-3-518-29422-2
(Ed. with Stephan A. Jansen and P. Birger Priddat ) The future of the public. Multipliziplinaere prospects for opening the discussion on the Public (VS Publisher of Social Sciences, 2007); ISBN 978-3-531-15282-0
Moral Markets. How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Producers ( Paradigm Publishers, 2008); ISBN 978-1-59451-456-2
(Ed. with Bernd Weiler ) Who owns knowledge? Knowledge and the Law ( Transaction Publishers, 2008); ISBN 978-0-7658-0337-5
(Ed.) Knowledge and Democracy. ( Transaction Publishers, 2008); ISBN 978-1-4128-0706-7
(Ed. Hans von Storch ) Eduard Brückner: The history of our climate: climate variability and climate impacts (Austrian contributions to meteorology and geophysics, 2008);
(Ed. with Stephan A. Jansen and Eckard Schroeter ) Polyvalent capitalism Multidisziplinaere contributions to forms of capitalism and its capital (VS -Verlag of Social Sciences, 2008); ISBN 978-3-531-15864-8
(Ed. with Manfred Moldaschl ) Knowledge Economy contributions to the economy of the knowledge society ( Metropolis Verlag, 2009 ); ISBN 978-3-89518-532-8
(Ed. with Reiner Grundmann ) Society Critical Concepts in Sociology. Four volumes ( Routledge, 2009); ISBN 978-0415426565
( with Žaneta Ozoliņa, Carl Mitcham, Jack Stilgoe, Pamela Andanda, Matthia Kaiser, Linda Nielsen and Ren - Zon Qui ) Global Governance of Science. Report of the Expert Group on Global Governance of Science to the Science, Economy and Society Directorate, Directorate- General for Research, European Commission. ( Brussels: European Commission, 2009); ISBN 978-9279079726
(Ed. with Stephan Jansen and Eckard Schroeter ) rationality of creativity. Multidisciplinary contributions to the analysis of the production, organization and education of creativity. (VS Publisher of Social Sciences, 2009); ISBN 978-3531166889
(Ed. with Gotthard Bechmann and Vitaly Gorekhov ) The Social Integration of Science. Institutional and Epistemological Aspects of the Transformation of Knowledge in Modern Society. (Edition Sigma, 2009); ISBN 978-3-894-049423
( with Hans von Storch ) Climate and Society. Climate as Resource and Climate as Risk. ( World Scientific, 2010); ISBN 978-9814280532
( with Hans von Storch ) Air Weather Man. ( Budrich Verlag, 2010); ISBN 978-3-86649-228-8
(Ed. with Stephan Jansen and Eckard Schroeter ) transparency. Multipdisziplinaere By sifting through phenomena and theories of Opaque. (VS Publishing for Social Sciences, 2019); ISBN 978-3531174358
( with Reiner Grundmann ) The power of knowledge. ( Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011) ISBN 978-3-518295908
(Ed. with Christian Fleck ) Paul F. Lazarsfeld: An Empirical Theory of Social Action. ( Bardwell Press, 2011 ); ISBN 978-1905622221
( with Reiner Grundmann ) The Power of Scientific Knowledge. From Research to Public Policy. ( Cambridge University Press, 2012); ISBN 978-1-107-02272-0
( with Gwythian Prins, M. Caine et al. ) The Vital Spark. Innovating Clean and Affordable Energy for All. London 2013. ISBN 978-1-909890-01-5

Article

An Inconvenient Democracy: Knowledge and Climate Change. In: Society 50 ( 1), February 2013, pp. 55-60, doi: 10.1007/s12115-012-9610-4.

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