Wolfgang Knöbl
Sociologist, Director of the Hamburg Institute for
Political and historical sociology
Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Germany
Biography
Wolfgang Knöbl, Professor and Dr. phil. he is an Sociologist, director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and adjunct professor for political sociology and sociological research on violence at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He did Projects and Cooperations in the Birth of the State from the Spirit of the Metropolis : A Study of State Formation in Argentina, Australia, and Canada from the Perspective of the History of Ideas and Sociological Planning. He is Visiting Professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Research Interest
Comparative macro-sociology; Political and historical sociology; Social theory; History of sociology
Publications
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Wolfgang Knöbl (2056) The new state and the revolution or difficulties in analyzing the emergence of the early US Republic. In: Ewald Frie, Ute Planert (eds.): Revolution, war and the birth of state and nation. State Formation in Europe and the Americas 1770 - 1930. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck PP: 21-46.
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Wolfgang Knöbl (2017) The Utopia of Democratic Modernism as a Social Science Research Program. In: Speculative theories, controversies, paradigm shift. Dispute at the Scientific Meeting of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences on 25 November 2016 / Preparation and Presentation: Matthias Steinmetz. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences PP: 31-37.
