Lunds universitet

Bo Isenberg

Docent, Sociologi
telefon: 23849
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e-post: bo.isenberg@soc.lu.se

Undervisningsinriktning:
Contemporary and classical social theory, cultural sociology/cultural studies, social psychology, media and society, identity, sociology of knowledge, history of ideas.

Undervisningsinformation:
Substantial teaching experiences from all levels of education – bachelor's, master’s, doctor’s – reaching from 1995, including extensive experiences of supervision of master’s and bachelor’s theses (some 200). Wide experience of developing, implementing and evaluating courses and programmes. Teaching at Swedish and international universities. Teaching in different social science fields: general sociology, social theory, social psychology, cultural sociology, methodology, epistemology, European studies, media and communication, social work.

Forskningsinriktning:

    Contemporary and classical social theory, cultural sociology/cultural studies, social psychology, media and society, identity, sociology of knowledge, history of ideas, history of mentalities.


Pågående forskningsprojekt:

    ”Assimilitis”. Joseph Roth – Eastern Jew, Cosmopolitan, European – Classical Sociological Reflections on a Classical Modern Life (Research project funded by Gyllenstiernska Krapperup Foundation)
    Hermeneutics of the Contemporary – Sociological Options, Predicaments, Variations
    Relational Social Psychology. From Simmel and Buber to Contemporary Theories

Publicerade vetenskapliga arbeten:

    Monographies, edited books

    Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (eds) (forthcoming 2013), Relationell socialpsykologi. Teorier och tillämpningar. Stockholm: Liber (Relational Social Psychology. Theories and Implementations) (340pp)
    Isenberg, Bo & Carl-Göran Heidegren & Mikael Carleheden (2007) Livsföring. Ett sociologiskt grundbegrepp. Stockholm: Liber (Conduct of Life. Studies of A Sociological Concept) (250pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (2001) Överflöd och ofullbordan. Essä om det moderna. Lund: Coyote (Abundancy and Incompletion. Essay on Modernity) (PhD thesis) (275pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (ed) (1998) Sociology and Social Transformation. Essays by Michael Mann, Chantal Mouffe, Göran Therborn, Bryan S. Turner. Lund: Department of Sociology (Research Report 1998:1) (80pp)
    Isenberg, Bo & Frans Oddner (eds) (1997) Seendets pendel. Festskrift till Johan Asplund. Stehag: Symposion (The Pendulum of Seeing. Miscellany to the Honour of Johan Asplund) (240pp)


    Articles, book chapters

    Isenberg, Bo (submitted) ” 同化:约瑟夫·罗特的现实” Submitted manuscript, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (transl. of Isenberg, 2013 forthcoming, ”Assimilitis”) (15pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (2013 forthcoming) ”Assimilitis. Joseph Roth – Eastern Jew, Cosmopolitan, European – Classical Sociological Reflections of a Classical Modern Life”, in Nate, Richard (ed), Cultural Identities in Europe. Nations and Regions, Migration and Minorities. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (14pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (2013 forthcoming) ” 批判与危机。 本文探讨莱茵哈德·科塞勒克(Reinhart Koselleck)的现代性起源论题。” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1 (transl. of Isenberg 2012 "Critique and Crisis") (15pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (forthcoming 2013) ”Georg Simmel”, in Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (eds) (2012), Relationell socialpsykologi. Teorier och tillämpningar (40pp)
    Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (forthcoming 2013) "Inledning", in Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (eds) (forthcoming 2013), Relationell socialpsykologi. Teorier och tillämpningar ("Introduction") (10pp)
    Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (forthcoming 2013) "Avslutande reflektioner: Relationell socialpsykologi och social hållbarhet", in Isenberg, Bo & Henrik Stenberg (eds) (forthcoming 2013), Relationell socialpsykologi. Teorier och tillämpningar ("Concluding reflections: Relational social psychology and social sustainability") (8pp)
    Isenberg, Bo (2012) ”Critique and crisis. Reinhart Koselleck's thesis of the genesis of modernity”, Eurozine (www.eurozine.com) (translation of Isenberg, 2011, ”Kritik och kris”)
    Isenberg, Bo (2011) ”Samtidshermeneutik. Sociologiska optioner, predikament, realiteter”, Sosiologisk Årbok, 1–2, 2011 (”Hermeneutics of the Contemporary. Sociological options, predicaments, realities”) (pp49–80)
    Isenberg, Bo & Niclas Hagen (2011) ”The Manifestation of Modernity in Genetic Science”, in Nate, Richard & Bea Klüsener (eds), Biology, Anthropology and Cultural Criticism. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (pp43–56)
    Isenberg, Bo (2011) ”Kritik och kris. Reinhart Kosellecks tes om modernitetens tillblivelse”, Fronesis, 1 (”Critique and Crisis – Essential Experiences and Concepts. Reinhart Koselleck and the Emergence of Modernity”) (pp49–61)
    Isenberg, Bo (2010) ”Flykten från friheten. Om Peter Sloterdijk och andra filosofiska temperament”, Subaltern, 2, 2010 (”Escape from Freedom. On the Philosophical Temperament of Peter Sloterdijk and Others”) (pp58–61)
    Isenberg, Bo (2010) ”Craftmanship vs. Virtualism – On the New Proletariat” (review Matthew B. Crawford: Shop Class as Soulcraft. An Inquiry into the Value of Work), Acta Sociologica, Vol. 53, No. 4: 392–394)
    Isenberg, Bo (2010) ”Inledning”, in Roth, Joseph, Judar på vandring. Stockholm: Atlantis (”Introduction”) (pp5–17)
    Isenberg, Bo (2009) ”Begreb, fiktion, gestaltning. Om sociologi og skønlitteratur som veje og omveje til det moderne – via Robert Musil”, in Antoft, Rasmus & Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Lisbeth B. Knudsen (eds), Den poetiske fantasi. Om forholdet mellem sociologi og fiktion. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag (”Concept, Fiction, Form. On Sociology and Literature as Tours and Detours to Modernity – via Robert Musil”) (pp69–98) (In Swedish: Salongen (http://salongen.de)
    Isenberg, Bo (2008) ”Karaktär och kultur. Sociologisk moralistik från Riesman till Sennett”, Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, Årg. 16. Nr 3 (”Character and Culture. Sociological Moralists from Riesman to Sennett”) (pp255–278)
    Isenberg, Bo (2007) ”Autenticitet och serendipitet. En samtidshermeneutik”, in Isenberg, Heidegren & Carleheden, Livsföring. Ett sociologiskt grundbegrepp (”Authenticity and Serendipity. A Contemporary Hermeneutics”) (pp155–197)
    Isenberg, Bo (2007) ”Moderna moralister. Om livsföring och kontingens som sociologins centrala problem”, in Isenberg, Heidegren & Carleheden, Livsföring. Ett sociologiskt grundbegrepp (”Modern Moralists. On Conduct of Life and Contingency as Sociology’s Central Problem”) (pp51–87)
    Isenberg, Bo & Carl-Göran Heidegren & Mikael Carleheden (2007), ”Inledning”, in Isenberg, Heidegren & Carleheden, Livsföring. Ett sociologiskt grundbegrepp (pp5–16)
    Isenberg, Bo (2006) ”Sociologisk essäism – Essäistisk sociologi. Om en tankestils utveckling och aktualitet i en postdisciplinär tid”, Dansk Sociologi, 17 Årg., Nr. 1 (”Sociological Essayism – Essayistic Sociology. On the Development and Actuality of a Style of Thought In A Postdisciplinary Age”) (pp87–110)
    Isenberg, Bo (2005) ”Den dialogiska vändningen” (review Charles Camic & Hans Joas: The Dialogical Turn), Sociologisk Forskning, nr 4 (pp79–83)
    Isenberg, Bo (2001) ”Postmodernity and its archive. The Principle of insufficient reason revisited”, in Hviid Jacobsen, Michael & Mikael Carleheden (eds), The Transformation of Modernity. Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era. Aldershot: Ashgate (pp71–82)
    Isenberg, Bo (2001) ”Postmodernity and its archive”, iichiko. quarterly journal of transdisciplinary studies, No. 68. (Revised version of Isenberg, 2001, ”Postmodernity and its archive”.)
    Isenberg, Bo (1999) ”’Filosofi på den avförtrollade världens baktrappa.’ Om ingångar och utgångar hos Hans Blumenberg”, Res Publica, 40–41 (”’Philosophy on the backstairs of the disenchanted world.” Entrances and exits to the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg”) (pp116–129)
    Isenberg, Bo (1998) ”Answering the Question: What is Culture? A Sociological Reworking of the Philosophy of Hans Blumenberg”, in Yamamoto, Tetsuji & Paul Rabinow & Roger Chartier (eds), Philosophical Designs for a Socio-Cultural Transformation. Beyond Violence and the Modern Era. Tokyo: Rowman & Littlefield (pp776–788)
    Isenberg, Bo (1998) ”Introduction”, in Isenberg, Bo (ed), Sociology and Social Transformation. Essays by Michael Mann, Chantal Mouffe, Göran Therborn, Bryan S. Turner. Edited and with an introduction by Bo Isenberg. Lund: Department of Sociology (Research Report 1998:1) (pp5–14)
    Isenberg, Bo (1998) ”Att bida sin tid. Robert Musil och det moderna”, Res Publica, 38 (”To bide one’s time. Robert Musil and the modern epoch”) (pp28–40)
    Isenberg, Bo (1997) ”Sociologi, programmatisk modern”, in Hansen, Lars et al (eds), Sociologi i tiden. Göteborg: Daidalos (Specialnummer, Sociologisk Forskning 3–4) (”Sociology, programmatically modern”) (pp283–310)
    Isenberg, Bo (1996) ”Moderniteten som kontingenskultur”, Res Publica, 32/33 (”Modernity as Contingency Culture”) (pp153–180)
    Isenberg, Bo (1996) ”Gilles Deleuze död”, Res Publica, 32/33 (”The Death of Gilles Deleuze”) (pp177–179)
    Isenberg, Bo (1993) ”Grekerna och demokratin”, Res Publica, 21 (”The Greeks and Democracy”) (pp243–246)
    Isenberg, Bo (1992) ”Foucault och den ’nya’ människan”, Res Publica, 19 (”Foucault and the ’New Man’”) (pp133–138)
    Isenberg, Bo (1991) ”Habermas on Foucault. Critical remarks”, Acta Sociologica, vol. 34, No. 4 (pp299–308)
    Isenberg, Bo (1991) ”Die kritischen Bemerkungen von Jürgen Habermas zu Michel Foucault”, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 39. Jg., Heft 12 (Revised version of Isenberg, 1991, ”Habermas on Foucault”.) (pp1386–1399)
    Isenberg, Bo (1991) ”Deleuze om vännen Foucault”, Res Publica, 17 (”Deleuze on his Friend Foucault”) (pp171–175)


    Popular science (selection)

    Isenberg, Bo (2012) ”Outsidern som insider. C Wright Mills amerikanska samtid”, Axess, nr 10
    Isenberg, Bo (2010) ”Sultanism och kosmopolitanism” (review: Joachim Sartorius: Die Prinzeninseln), Axess, nr 9
    Isenberg, Bo (2010) ”Roth utan Rötter – Joseph Roths kosmopolitanism”, Axess, nr 2 (pp55–57)
    Isenberg, Bo (2009) ”Människan är till sitt väsen hantverkare” (review: Matthew B. Crawford: Shop Class as Soul Craft. An Inquiry into the Value of Work), Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket), December 14
    Isenberg, Bo (2005) ”Rutin har blivit ett skällsord” (review: Richard Sennett: The Culture of the New Capitalism), Axess, nr 5 (pp47–48)
    Isenberg, Bo (2005) ”Med spagat som bästa gren” (review: Norbert Bolz: Blindflug mit Zuschauer), Axess, nr 7 (pp43–44)
    Isenberg, Bo (2005) ”Sociologin bortom disciplinerna”, Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket), June 29
    Isenberg, Bo (2004) ”Tänkandet går och går men kommer aldrig till saken. Blumenberg om Husserl”, Axess, 3 2004
    Isenberg, Bo (2002) ”Bourdieu avläste det moderna livets hierarkier”, Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket), February 22
    Isenberg, Bo (1996) ”Bagage för andra resor – filosofen Hans Blumenberg död”, Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket), June 30


    Translations

    Sloterdijk, Peter, ”Pascal”, Subaltern, 2, 2010 (pp62–64)
    Bolz, Norbert, ”Att ta djävulen på allvar”, Subaltern, 3, 2011 (”Taking the Devil seriously”) (pp56–64)
    Roth, Joseph, Judar på vandring. Stockholm: Atlantis, 2010 (120s) (Wandering Jews) (125pp)
    Hultqvist, Kenneth & Petersson, Kenneth (eds), Foucault. Stockholm: HLS Förlag, 1995 (250pp)
    Gilles Deleuze: ”Postscriptum: Kontrollsamhället”, Res Publica 23 (1993)

Working Papers:

    Presentation of paper

    ”What is Wrong with the History of Europe?” Conference InterReg IVA Europeanisation and Globalisation, Roskilde University, March 16, 2011. Discussant, book presentation, prof Bo Stråth and prof Hagen Schulz Forberg, The Political History of European Integration – The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market (Routledge, 2011).
    ”Kommunikativer Konformismus.” Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin, October 23, 2009, paper on ”Endlose Kommunikation: Virtualität, Konformität, abstrakte Sozialität”.
    ”Biology, Anthropology and Cultural Criticism in the European Modern Age”, conference at Europastudien – Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Katholische Universität Eichstätt–Ingolstadt, Germany, June 26–27, 2009. Paper om ”The Manifestation of Modernity in Genetic Science” (with Niclas Hagen, geneticist, ethnologist, Lunds Universitet).
    37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, July 5–9, 2005. Paper on ”Sociological Essayism – Essayistic Sociology. On the Evolution and Actuality of a Style of Thought in the Postdisciplinary Age” (Session: History of Sociology and the Social Sciences).
    Annual meeting, Swedish Association of Sociology, Örebro, January 30–31, 2003). Paper on ”Choosing One's Life: Models of Conduct of Life In the Early 21. Century. A Cultural Sociological Approach” (with prof Carl-Göran Heidegren).
    Annual meeting, Swedish Association of Sociology, Lund, January 30, 1997. Paper on ”Max Weber and the quasi-sovereign character of the sociologist”.
    ”Culture and Identity: City, Nation, World”, Berlin, conference organized by Theory, Culture & Society, July 1995. Paper on ”Modernity and Contingency: Foucault’s Philosophical Essayism”.
    World Congress of Sociology – International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, July 1994). Paper on ”Foucault, Epistemology, Sociology”. (Session: ”Phenomenological Methods in Social Research”)


    Invited presentations

    Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, June 4, 2012. Lecture on ”Foucault on the dialectics of crisis and critique”.
    Malmö Foreign Policy Association, March 15, 2012, lecture on ”Anomie and Agonism: Contemporary Capitalism and Precarious Society”.
    ”National Social Science Forum”, Fudan University, Shanghai, October 29, 2011. Speech on ”Contingency, Crisis, Critique”.
    ”Cultural Identities in Europe. Nations and Regions, Migration and Minorities”, Eichstätter Europatagen 2011, Katholische Universität Eichstätt–Ingolstadt, June 24–25, 2011. Lecture on ”’Assimilitis.’ Joseph Roth – Eastern Jew, Cosmopolitan, European”.
    ”Contemporary craftmanship”, symposium at the Modern Museum of Art, Stockholm, November 18, 2010. Speech on ”Man’s craftmanship essence”.
    ”Anthropological seminar”, Department of Sociology, Lund University, April 27, 2010. Lecture on ”Genetics and contingency. The modernity of the gene and the gene of modernity” (with Niclas Hagen, geneticist, ethnologist, Lunds Universitet).
    ”Transgressing the boundaries between literature and sociology”, conference at Copenhagen University, December 1–2, 2004. Speech on ”Sociology and Literature”.
    ”The New Economy of Place”, conference at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles, EHESC, Tokyo, October 2002. Lecture on ”Real possibilities – Possible realities: On modern and postmodern notions of reality and possiblity”.
    ”The New Economy of Place” conference at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles, EHESC, Tokyo, October 2002. Lecture on ”Modern Spaces/Spaces of Modernity: The Metropolis as Chronical State of Emergency”.
    ”The Transformation of Modern Society”, conference at Aalborg University, Denmark, September 25–27, 1999. Speech on ”Postmodernity and its archive”.
    ”National Conference for PhD Candidates”, Lund University, November 1997. Speech on ”The Future of sociology”.
    ”Power and moral”, Research Schol in Historical Anthropology, Lund University, January 1995. Speech on ”Modernity as Culture of Contingency”.
    ”Colloquium Historische Anthropologie”, Freie Universität Berlin, June 1993. Speech on ”’Du musst dein Leben ändern…’ – Nietzsche & Foucault”.
    ”The Crisis of the Western Welfare State”, conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), June, 1990. Speech on ”The Welfare State and Pastoral Power”.

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