Dr. Andreas Höntsch (Research Associate)

Academic and professional background

Research Associate at the TU Dresden, Institute of Sociology since 2012.

2015 Doctorate in sociology (summa cum laude) at the TU Dresden. Title of dissertation: "The institutional determinacy of social systems. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and the sociology of the 'Leipzig School'". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jost Halfmann (TU Dresden), reviewer: Prof. Dr. Andreas Göbel (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

2008-2012 Research Assistant at the TU Dresden, Institute of Sociology.

2007 Graduation as Magister Artium.

Main research interests

Sociological theory and history of theory
Cultural sociology

Publications

Monographs and editorships

The institutional determination of social systems. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and the sociology of the "Leipzig School", series Soziologische Schriften, vol. 85, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2018. 421 p.

Review: Salomon, René (2019): Sociological theory. Review of: Höntsch, Andreas: The institutional determinacy of social systems. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and the sociology of the "Leipzig School". Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2018. In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 71(4), 677-680.[https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-019-00646-2]

Ed. (with Patrick Wöhrle): Provisional Eternity. Reflections on State Theory in the Early Federal Republic. Series Staatsverständnisse, vol. 162, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2022.

Essays and reviews

Lars Clausen's Sociology of Catastrophe. On the Influence of the Leipzig School on the Second Generation of West German Sociology, in: Zyklos 7. Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie, ed. by Martin Endreß and Stephan Moebius, Wiesbaden: VS 2023, PP. 35-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40858-9

Review of Mario Marino (ed.): Körper, Leibideen und politische Gemeinschaft. "Rasse" und Rassismus aus der Sicht der Philosophischen Anthropologie (Series Philosophical Anthropology. Themes and Positions, vol. 10), Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz 2020, in: Scienza & Filosofia 29 (2023). https://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/?portfolio=mario-marino-hrsg-korper-leibideen-und-politische-gemeinschaft-rasse-und-rassismus-aus-der-sicht-der-philosophischen-anthropologie-verlag-traugott-bautz-nordhausen-2020

The problem of non-corporeal spatiality. Kant's Predicabilia Theory and Plessner's Theory of Positionality, in: Kant-Studien 114, H.1 (2023), pp. 98-132.

Womit muss der Anfang der Sozialtheorie gemacht werden?, in: Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie 12, H. 1 (2022), pp. 269-275.

The socialization of the state. De-differentiation or totalization of society according to Ernst Forsthoff and Niklas Luhmann, in: Andreas Höntsch/Patrick Wöhrle (eds.), Provisorische Ewigkeit. Reflections on State Theory in the Early Federal Republic. Series Understandings of the State, vol. 162, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2022, pp. 117-162.

On the introduction, in: Andreas Höntsch/Patrick Wöhrle (eds.), Provisorische Ewigkeit. Staatstheoretische Reflexionen der frühen Bundesrepublik, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2022, pp. 9-18 (together with Patrick Wöhrle)

Between Political Humanism and Political Ecology. Political Anthropology in Helmuth Plessner and Bruno Latour, in: Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie 10, H.1 (2020), pp. 99-124. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbpa-2020-0007

The technical contingency of communication. Reflections on the relationship between technology, communication and action following systems theory and philosophical anthropology, in: Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Proceedings of the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association 2020 (2021). https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2020/article/view/1382

The State between the Claim to Equality and the Promise of Prosperity. Arnold Gehlen's view of the Federal Republic, in: Die Macht der Institution. On Arnold Gehlen's Understanding of the State (Series Staatsverständnisse, vol. 149), ed. by Christine Magerski, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, pp. 217-242.

Gotthard Günther's interpretation of Fichte, in: Fichte-Studien 45, H.1 (2018), pp. 348-369. https://brill.com/view/journals/fis/45/1/article-p348_18.xml

Review of Stefan Klingner: Technical Reason. Kant's Concept of Purpose and the Problem of a Philosophy of Technical Culture. [Kantstudien Ergänzungshefte 172]. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013, in: Kant-Studien 108, H. 2 (2017), pp. 283-288. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2017-0023

Reflection and will. Zur Rezeption des späten Schelling bei Gotthard Günther, in: Reinhard Hiltscher and Stefan Klingner (eds.), F. W. J. Schelling, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012, pp. 139-156 (together with Tino Werner).

Ernst Jünger und Gotthard Günther: Versuche zu einer Geschichtsmetaphysik nach dem "Ende der Geschichte", in: Natalia Żarska, Gerald Diesener and Wojciech Kunicki (eds.), Ernst Jünger - eine Bilanz, Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2010, pp. 486-497 (together with Christian Baumann).

Exclusion and Orientation. Zum Umgang mit Gleichheit in der modernen Gesellschaft, in: Gunther Gebhard, Tino Heim and Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (eds.), "Realität" der Klassengesellschaft - "Klassengesellschaft" als Realität?, Münster: MV 2007, pp. 293-319 (together with Tino Werner).