Stephan Moebius

My research interests lie particularly in the field of sociological theory of praxeology and, in relation to literature, in the study of texts as aesthetic practices. Here, texts are conceived as elements of discourse-practice formations, more precisely: as complexes of discourses and practices, as further defined by Susanne Knaller in our project on the analysis of “liminal texts” of the long turn of the century, see S. Knaller/S. Moebius/M. Scholger (2022): Twilight Zones. Liminal Texts of the Long Turn of the Century (1880 to 1940). Austria, France, Germany (open access: https://unipub.uni- graz.at/obvugrveroeff/download/pdf/7009574?  originalFilename=true).

In addition to the interest in texts as discourse-practice formations, in particular the liminal texts of the long turn of the century that oscillate between science and art, my sociological focus is also on the power relations in which texts are embedded, in particular the forms of symbolic power according to Bourdieu.