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German sociologist
Wolfgang Schluchter (born 4 April 1938 in
Ludwigsburg,
Germany) is a German
sociologist and, as of 2006,
professor emeritus at
Heidelberg University. Schluchter is recognized as a leading
sociologist of religion and an authority on the history of sociological theory, in particular on the work of
Max Weber. He was one of the editors of the
Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe [
de], alongside
Wolfgang J. Mommsen and
Johannes Winckelmann [
de].
Gangolf Hübinger [
de] succeeded Mommsen after he died in 2004. The project was completed in June 2020, with forty-seven volumes. Schluchter was visiting professor at several universities worldwide, including the
University of Pittsburgh,
The New School for Social Research, and the
University of California, Berkeley.
Selected works in English translation
- Max Weber’s Vision of History. Ethics and Methods. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979.
ISBN
0520052269 (with
Guenther Roth)
- The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber's Developmental History. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985.
ISBN
9780520054646
- Rationalism, Religion, and Domination. A Weberian Perspective. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989.
- Paradoxes of Modernity. Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996.
- Max Weber and Islam. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 1995
ISBN
1560004002 (edited with
Toby Huff)
- Public Spheres and Collective Identities. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000 (edited with
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and
Björn Wittrock)
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