Wolfgang Knöbl

Wolfgang Knöbl

Wolfgang Knöbl is the Director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Professor for Political Sociology and Sociological Research on Violence at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Wolfgang Knöbl is the Director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Professor for Political Sociology and Sociological Research on Violence at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.

PUBLICATIONS

Sociology before History
Year of Publication: 2022
Wolfgang KnöblYear of Publication: 2022
From the beginning, sociology’s approach to history was based on coining concepts of process such as »differentiation« or »individualisation«, which play a central role in analyses of certain eras to this day. However, the historical-philosophical burden of these concepts has rarely been addressed, which is why some of them have been strongly criticised in recent...