Peter Wagner (sociologist)

Peter Wagner (born September 18, 1956 in Lütjenburg ) is a German social scientist specializing in sociological and political theory. He is Professor at the University of Barcelona and ICREA Research Professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) in Barcelona . Wagner is one of the world's most renowned social theorists who deal with the concept of modernity and the modernization process.

Life

Wagner studied political science and sociology at the University of Hamburg , Queen Mary College in London and at the Free University of Berlin between 1977 and 1982. He received his doctorate in 1989 from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the relationship between social sciences and the state in the years 1870–1980. He then worked as a research assistant at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin . In 1993 he completed his habilitation in sociology at the Free University of Berlin and published his most successful work "A Sociology of Modernity" with Routledge . This is one of the world's fundamental social theoretical works on modernity and has so far been translated into eight other languages. He then became Professor of Sociology at Warwick University in England .

In 1999 Peter Wagner was appointed professor of sociological and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence . For the period from 2006 to 2010, Wagner moved to the University of Trento as a professor of sociology . Since 2010 he has been ICREA Research Professor and Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Barcelona . He is also a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the renowned Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main . In 2019 Wagner was elected to the Academia Europaea ,

Fonts

• The Trouble with Democracy: Political Modernity in the 21st Century, (Ed. With Gerard Rosich), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4744-0798-4 .
• Progress: a reconstruction, Cambridge: Polity, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7456-9100-8 .
  • German: "Progress", (Volume 26 of the IfS series of publications. Frankfurter Contributions to Sociology and Social Philosophy), Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus, i. E. Fall 2017.
• African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice? (Ed.), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4744-0040-4 .
• Modernity: Understanding the Present, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7456-5291-7 .
• Plurality and Progress. Modernity in Political Philosophy and Historical Sociology, Stockholm: Nordic Summer University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-87-87564-20-5 .
• Modernity as Experience and Interpretation. A New Sociology of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
  • German: Modernism as experience and interpretation: a new sociology for modernity , Konstanz: UVK, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86764-163-0 .
• A History and Theory of the Social Sciences. Not All that Is Solid Melts into Air, London: Sage, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7619-6569-5 .
• Theorizing Modernity. Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory, London: Sage, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7619-5147-6
• A Sociology of Modernity. Liberty and Discipline. London: Routledge, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-08186-3 (translated into Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese and Korean).
  • German: Sociology of Modernity , Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 1995, ISBN 978-3-593-35393-7 .
• The Scholar's Room. A topography of academic practice (edited with Heidrun Friese ) Berlin: Edition sigma, 1993. ISBN 978-3-89404-131-1 .
• Social Sciences and State. France, Italy, Germany 1870–1980. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus, 1990. ISBN 978-3-593-34339-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Wagner. In: ub.edu. Retrieved February 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ICREA Wagner, Peter. In: icrea.cat. Retrieved February 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner - IfS - Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In: ifs.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .