- Claus Offe
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Professor Claus Offe (born March 16, 1940 in Berlin)[1] is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School. He currently teaches at a private university in Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance.
Part of a series on the Frankfurt School 
Major works Reason and Revolution
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Eclipse of Reason
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Minima Moralia
Eros and Civilization
One-Dimensional Man
Negative Dialectics
The Structural Transformation of the Public SphereNotable theorists Max Horkheimer · Theodor Adorno
Herbert Marcuse · Walter Benjamin
Erich Fromm · Friedrich Pollock
Leo Löwenthal · Jürgen HabermasImportant concepts Critical Theory · Dialectic · Praxis
Psychoanalysis · Antipositivism
Popular culture · Culture industry
Advanced capitalism · Privatism
Non-Identity · Communicative Rationality
Legitimation CrisisHe has made substantive contributions to understanding the relationships between democracy and capitalism. His recent work has focused on economies and states in transition to democracy.
He has been married to Ulrike Poppe since 2001. He taught at The New School.
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Fields of research
- Political sociology
- Social policy
- Democratic theory
- Transformation studies
- Dual allocation problem
Career movements
- 2006 - Joint Professor of Theories of the State, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (with Ulrich K. Preuss).
- 2005 — Retired in April.
- 1995-2005 — Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
- 1989-1995 — Teacher at University of Bremen and served as visiting professor at various academic institutions in US, Netherlands, Canada, Austria, Sweden, Australia and Italy.
- 1973 — Habilitation from the University of Konstanz.
- 1968 — Received a doctorate from the University of Frankfurt.
- 1965 — Graduated from the Free University of Berlin.
Recent publications
- 2005 — ”Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States”, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-7456-3505-9.
- 1998 — ”Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies. Rebuilding the Ship at Sea.” (with Jon Elster and Ulrich K. Preuss), Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-521-47386-1
- 1996 — ”The Varieties of Transition: the East European and East German experience” (with Jeremy Gaines), Cambridge: Polity Press, ISBN 0-7456-1608-9.
- 1996 — ”Modernity and The State: East and West.” (with Charles Turner and Jeremy Gaines), Cambridge: Polity Press, ISBN 0-7456-1674-7.
- 1982 — with Volker Gransow. "Political Culture and the Politics of the Social Democratic Government". TELOS 53 (Fall 1982). New York: Telos Press
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External links
- Homepage of Claus Offe at the Hertie School of Governance
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