Shmuel Eisenstadt

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt ( born September 10, 1923 in Warsaw, † September 2, 2010 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli sociologist.

Biography

Eisenstadt first emigrated to the United States. He was appointed to the chair of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1959. In 1990 he emigrated to Israel. He has received numerous visiting professorships, including at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of Zurich, the University of Vienna, the University of Bern, Stanford University, the University of Heidelberg. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Balzan Prize, the Max Planck Research Award ( together with Wolfgang Schluchter ) and in 2006 the Holberg Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Israel Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

In sociology, he was initially known as youth sociologist ( From Generation to Generation), which is also a mental proximity to Talcott Parsons dartat. However, " Eisenstadt's research has contributed significantly to the understanding of modernity that Euro -centric interpretation to solve out the saw, developed in the West cultural program as a natural model of development of all societies. [ ... ] The European model is only one: the earliest time. It gives the pulse. But the social reactions - whether in the U.S., Canada, Japan or in Southeast Asia - were made with very different cultural Reagents ".

Important publications

  • The Political System of Empires (1963 )
  • Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966 )
  • Tradition, change and modernity (1979 )
  • Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978 )
  • European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective (1987 )
  • The transformation of Israeli society, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Japanese Civilization - A Comparative View ( 1996)
  • Cultures of the time axis (ed.), five volumes (1987 and 1992 )
  • The antinomies of modernity. The Jacobin Broad modernism and fundamentalism. Heterodoxies, utopianism and Jacobinism in the constitution of fundamentalist movements, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-28788-0
  • Paradoxes of democracy - the political theory in search of the Political, Humanities Online 2005, ISBN 978-3-934157-41-5
  • The diversity of modern
  • Theory and modernity. Sociological Essays, VS Verlag für Social Sciences 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14565-5
  • The great revolutions and the cultures of modernity, VS Verlag für Social Sciences, 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14993-6
  • 'Multiple Modernities ' The dispute about the present, 2007
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