Wolfgang Schluchter

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.

• 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)

• Personal page at Heidelberg University with links to CV and complete list of publications, retrieved 16 October 2013

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