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Karin Priester

Died
April 25, 2020
Age
78 years

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Karis Priester (29 December 1941 – 25 April 2020) was a German historian and political scientist.

Biography

Priester studied romance languages, history, philosophy, and political science at the University of Cologne, Aix-Marseille University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Florence. She obtained her doctorate in history and her habilitation in political science from the University of Marburg with a thesis on Italian Marxism. After teaching at the University of Giessen and RWTH Aachen University, she was a professor of political sociology at the University of Münster starting in 1980. She retired in February 2007. After her retirement, she studied populism and right-wing extremism.

Karis Priester died in Münster on 25 April 2020 at the age of 78.

Works

  • Der italienische Faschismus. Ökonomische und ideologische Grundlagen (1972)
  • Studien zur Staatstheorie des italienischen Marxismus: Gramsci und Della Volpe (1981)
  • Hat der Eurokommunismus eine Zukunft? Perspektiven und Grenzen des Systemwandels in Westeuropa (1982)
  • Rassismus und kulturelle Differenz (1997)
  • Mythos Tod. Tod und Todeserleben in der modernen Literatur (2001)
  • Mary Shelley. Die Frau, die Frankenstein erfand. Eine Biografie (2001)
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. Ein Leben für die Frauenrechte (2002)
  • Rassismus. Eine Sozialgeschichte (2003)
  • Geschichte der Langobarden. Gesellschaft – Kultur – Alltagsleben (2004)
  • Populismus. Historische und aktuelle Erscheinungsformen (2007)
  • Rechter und linker Populismus: Annäherung an ein Chamäleon (2012)
  • Das Phänomen des Berlusconismus (2013)
  • Mystik und Politik. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe und die radikale Demokratie (2014)
  • Warum Europäer in den Heiligen Krieg ziehen. Der Dschihadismus als rechtsradikale Jugendbewegung (2017)
  • Rechtspopulismus – ein umstrittenes theoretisches und politisches Phänomen (2017)

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