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Obituary for Herbert Gottweis, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna: Born 8 February 1958 in Vienna, died 31 March 2014 in Vienna.
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Herbert studied Political Science at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1984
The heavy travelling schedule that he maintained early in his academic career remained with him until the end of his life: Herbert embodied both deep-rootedness and openness for adventure. This combination applied to his intellectual work: while he maintained a strong commitment to political science (‘Where is the power?’, he often asked colleagues when he felt their work lacked focus on what really matters), he had an almost uncanny ability to spot issues in the domain of science and technology that would become politically pertinent or controversial, and he stretched the boundaries of his home discipline to address these
On which he embarked in the 1990s, was highly unusual and innovative within political science at that time: Using a discursive analytic approach, Herbert explored how genetic engineering had become a controversial technology. This habilitation thesis was published with MIT Press two years later (Governing Molecules: Discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States, 1998) and it remains a major work in the field of critical studies of biotechnology regulation and Science and Technology Studies (STS)
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Obituary for Herbert Gottweis, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna: Born 8 February 1958 in Vienna, died 31 March 2014 in Vienna Herbert studied Political Science at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1984.
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