230123 SE Traces of Marginalization: Archaeological attempts on Austrian Sociology (2014W)

The seminar embarks on a search of Austrian sociologists which had been marginalized in the wake of Austro-Fascism, Nazism and post-war regime, and forgotten in the collective memory of the Austrian sociology. This concerns, for example, sociologists such as Gertrud Wagner or Lotte Schenk-Danzinger, both collaborators in the Marienthal study, authors such as Ernst Fischer, whose sociologically relevant texts were appreciated only outside Austria, but also better-known personalities such as Otto Neurath and his son Paul Neurath or Käthe Leichter, whose innovative contributions to sociology are largely unknown today, or sociologists such as Judith Janoska-Bendl or Michael Pollak, representing those who emigrated from Austria from the 1960s on and whose writings remained widely unknown. Starting from a discussion of the history of Austrian sociology from its beginnings up to the present days, the seminar invites to get to know the work of unknown and forgotten sociologists by questioning their relevance and topicality. The seminar is to be understood as the beginning of a cycle to the topic.