Hans Joas

Hans Joas, 2014

Hans Joas (born November 27, 1948 in Munich ) is a German sociologist and social philosopher .

Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Honorary Professor at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . From April 2011 to March 2014 he was a Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and until the summer semester 2011, he was Max Weber Professor and Head of the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt . He is also a visiting professor of Sociology and Social Thought and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago , a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , and a non-resident long-term fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies , Uppsala .

Life

Hans Joas was born in 1979 with the dissertation Practical Intersubjectivity. The development of the work of George Herbert Mead is doing his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin . and was a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin until 1983 . During this time he was a professor at the University of Tübingen in 1980/1981. Joas completed his habilitation in 1981. From 1984 to 1987, he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation again at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. At the same time, he was visiting professor for sociology at the University of Chicago (1985) and at the University of Toronto (1986).

Hans Joas in the auditorium at Wilhelmsplatz in Göttingen, as the final speaker of the 2014 Historians' Day

In 1987 he was appointed professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He held this professorship until 1990. This was followed by an appointment to the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, where he remained full professor until 2002 . During his time at the FU, he was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and visiting professor at Uppsala University in 1992 and 1999/2000 , in 1994 he was a fellow at the Indiana Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University Bloomington , in 1996 and 1998 visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , 1997 Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City , 1998 visiting professor at Duke University . In 2000 he was appointed professor at the University of Chicago , and in 2002 also as Max Weber Professor at the University of Erfurt , where he headed the Max Weber College for cultural and social science studies. In 2002 he was still visiting professor at the University of Vienna , from 2004 to 2005 Ernst Cassirer Professor at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and in the academic year 2005/2006 a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. In the summer semester of 2012, Joas was the first scientist to hold the newly created guest professorship of the Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation at the University of Regensburg . His lecture dealt with the topic of "sacralization and secularization". Joas has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of German Scientists (VDW eV) since November 2015

Research priorities

Hans Joas focuses on social philosophy and sociological theory, especially American pragmatism and historicism ; Sociology of religion and sociology of war and violence as well as the change in values in modern society.

Another focus of Joas' research is the development of values . To this end, he developed a theory of the affirmative genealogy of values, especially human rights . According to Joas, values ​​arise in experiences of self-education and self-transcendence. To this end, he has developed a phenomenology of the experience of self-transcendence "from individual prayer to collective ecstasy in archaic rituals or in nationalistic enthusiasm for war"; "It includes moral feelings, the opening of the self in conversation and in the experience of nature ." Joas emphasizes that his consideration of the contingency of the emergence of values ​​should by no means be understood "as a plea against the claims of a universalistic morality".

Awards

• 2010: Bielefeld Science Prize ("Niklas Luhmann Prize")
• 2011: Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2012: Werner Heisenberg Medal from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2012: Honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen
• 2013: Honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
• 2013: Hans Kilian Prize
• 2015: Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, Section History of Sociology
• 2015: Max Planck Research Award
• 2015: proZukunft top ten future literature 2015 for Are human rights western?
• 2017: Prix Paul Ricœur
• 2018: Theological Prize of the Salzburg University Weeks

Fonts (selection)

• The current situation of the sociological role theory , Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7610-5867-5 .
• Practical intersubjectivity. The development of the work of George Herbert Mead Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 978-3-518-28365-3 .
• with Axel Honneth : Social action and human nature . Anthropological foundations of the social sciences . Campus, Studium-Reihe, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-593-32545-4 .
• with Michael Bochow , Science and Career Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-593-33851-3 .
• Pragmatism and Social Theory Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28618-8 .
• The creativity of action . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-518-28848-1 .
• The emergence of values , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-29016-3 .
• Wars and values. Studies on the history of violence in the 20th century . Weilerswist, Velbrueck, 2000, ISBN 978-3-934730-13-7 .
• with Wolfgang Knöbl, social theory. Twenty introductory lectures , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-29269-3 .
• Do people need religion? About experiences of self-transcendence , Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2004, ISBN 978-3-451-05459-4 .
• with Wolfgang Knöbl: Repression of the war. A Problem in the History of Social Theory , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29512-0 .
• (with José Casanova ): Religion and the controversial modernity , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2010 (Global Solidarity - Steps to a New World Culture; Vol. 19), ISBN 978-3-17-021234-3 .
• The sacredness of the person. A new genealogy of human rights , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-58566-5 .
• Faith as an Option: Future Possibilities of Christianity , Herder, Freiburg / Br. 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30537-5 .
• What is the axial time? A scientific debate as a discourse on transcendence , Schwabe, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7965-3360-0 .
• The long night of mourning. Storytelling as a way out of violence? Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8379-2267-7 .
• Are Human Rights Western? , Kösel, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-466-37126-6 .
• Church as a moral agency? , Kösel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-466-37175-4 .
• The power of the sacred. An alternative to the story of disenchantment , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-58703-4 (paperback Suhrkamp Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29903-6 ).

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Hans Joas in the discussion: Creativity - Self-transcendence - Violence . Campus, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39524-1
• Sabine Schößler: The neopragmatism of Hans Joas: action, belief and experience . LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11191-3

Web links

Commons : Hans Joas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Joas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence of the Ernst Troeltsch Honorary Professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Hans Joas in the central information system of the Humboldt University in Berlin
• “Thinking Christianity more globally!” , Interview Radio Vatican Blog from June 19, 2012
• “I shudder at the tremolo in the European speeches” , interview in the FAZ on October 6, 2012
• Faith. "This experience is universal" , Interview with Hans Joas, Die Zeit Wissen 01/2013
• Vincent Colapietro: A Revised Portrait of Human Agency: A Critical Engagement with Hans Joas's Creative Appropriation of the Pragmatic Approach , European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2009
• Andreas Püttmann: Will secularization lead to moral decline? One answer to Hans Joas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet presence of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Theology, Ernst Troeltsch Honorary Professorship , August 11, 2015
2. ↑ Internet presence of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Fellows , August 11, 2015
3. ↑ Internet presence of the University of Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Former Members ( memento of October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 11, 2015
4. ^ Homepage University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought , August 11, 2015
5. ^ Homepage University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought , August 11, 2015
6. ↑ Internet presence of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, members, Hans Joas , August 11, 2015
7. ^ Homepage Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fellowships , August 11, 2015
8. ↑ [1] , cf. Joas, Hans: Practical Intersubjectivity. The development of the work of George Herbert Mead Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 978-3-518-28365-3 .
9. ^ Max Planck Society , August 11, 2015
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Internet presence of the Humboldt University of Berlin, theological faculty, Ernst Troeltsch honorary professorship, résumé / vita , August 11, 2015
11. ↑ News: Hans Joas as visiting professor at the faculty: The visiting professorship of the "Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI. Foundation" is filled for the first time in the summer semester of 2012. University of Regensburg, Faculty of Catholic Theology, accessed on July 9, 2012
12. ↑ Brief biography of Hans Joas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 . 
13. ↑ New advisory board of VDW eV (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Self-presentation of the research projects of Hans Joas ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
15. ^ Hans Jonas: Inequality in civil society. On some dilemmas of common sense , from politics and contemporary history (B 25-26 / 2001)
16. ↑ Hans Joas: Violence and human dignity. How experiences become rights , Konstanz Cultural Studies Colloquium 2009: “Norm and Symbol. The cultural dimension of social and political integration "
17. ↑ Hans Joas: Value pluralism and universalism , in: W. Schluchter: Colloquia of the Max Weber College XV-XXIII, Erfurt 2001, 29-49, here 30
18. ^ University of Erfurt, press releases, archive, Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis Hans Joas , uni-erfurt.de, 11 August 2015.
19. ^ University of Bielefeld, Uni aktuell, Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis Hans Joas , ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de, August 11, 2015.
20. ^ Membership directory: Hans Joas. Academia Europaea, accessed June 30, 2017 . 
21. ^ University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Communications Archive , August 11, 2015.
22. ↑ University of Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg, archive, press ( memento of March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), August 11, 2015.
23. ^ University of Erfurt, press releases, archive, honorary doctorate by Hans Joas , uni-erfurt.de, August 11, 2015.
24. ↑ University of Tübingen, Hochschulkommunikation , uni-tuebingen.de, August 11, 2015.
25. ↑ Hans Joas received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), uni-erfurt.de, August 11, 2015.
26. ^ University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Messages Archive , frias.uni-freiburg.de, August 11, 2015.
27. ↑ Hans Kilian Prize: 2013 award ceremony at hans-kilian-preis.de
28. ^ Homepage University of Chicago, News , sociology.uchicago.edu. 11th August 2015
29. ^ Homepage Max Planck Society, News, Awards, Max Planck Research Award 2015 , mpg.de, August 11, 2015
30. ↑ Top ten future literature 2015 . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . December 1, 2015 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
31. ^ Message from the University of Erfurt