... received his PhD in Sociology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München in 1976. Since 1995 he is Professor of General Sociology
[comparable to Senior Full Professor] at the Philipps-Universität
Marburg in Germany. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago
(1981) and Indiana University (1994-1995) in the USA. Further he was a
visiting Professor at the University of South Florida (1990) and Directeur
d'Etudes Invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
in Paris.
Selected publications
Max Weber: Schriften 1894-1922. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben
von Dirk Kaesler. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner 2002. (Ed.)
Mirrors and Windows. Essays in the History of Sociology. Torun:
Nicholas Copernicus University Press 2001. [Edited together with Janusz
Mucha und Wlodzimierz Winclawski.] (Ed.)
Hauptwerke der Soziologie. Stuttgart: Kröner Verlag 2000.
[Edited together with Ludgera Vogt.] (Ed.)
Klassiker der Soziologie. Band I: Von Auguste Comte bis
Norbert Elias. Band II: Von Talcott Parsons bis Pierre Bourdieu.
München: C. H. Beck. 2nd, revised edition 2000. 3rd edition 2002.
4th edition 2003. (Ed.)
Soziologie als Berufung. Bausteine einer selbstbewussten Soziologie.
Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. 1997. 315 p.
Max Weber. Eine Einführung in Leben, Werk und Wirkung.
Frankfurt / New York: Campus 1998. 2nd edition. 311 p
Further he has published several translations of books on Max Weber into
different languages and articles in collections as well as scholarly journals
with a focus on the history of sociology.
homepage: http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~kaesler/
