Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adolf, Marian T. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 16
• Subjects: Sociology.; History.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Sociological Theory.; Knowledge - Discourse.; History of Science.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Sustainable Development.

This unique volume brings together a selection of the most important texts of Nico Stehr for the first time and puts them in dialogue with original research that draws on his prolific work. Covering five decades of pioneering sociological research on the theory of society and knowledge, the book int...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. On Nico Stehr
• Chapter 1. A Short Biography of Nico Stehr
• Chapter 2. Introduction to the Work of Nico Stehr
• Chapter 3. Reflections on Society and Knowledge: An Interview with Nico Stehr
• Chapter 4. Selected Bibliography of Nico Stehr
• Part II. Knowledge, Science, Society: Nico Stehr's Work in the Perspective of Colleagues
• Chapter 5. The Knowledge Society. Some Remarks on the State of Affairs on the Occasion of Nico Stehr's 70th Birthday
• Chapter 6. Knowledge Paradigms and Intransigent Intuitions
• Chapter 7. New Forms of Civil Society: The Social Question of the 21st Century
• Chapter 8. The Scientific Ethos: The Case of Climate Change
• Chapter 9. Social Science - A Must for Climate Research.