Hans Joas - Wikipedia Hans Joas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with Hans Jonas. Hans Joas Hans Joas (2014) Born (1948-11-27) November 27, 1948 (age 72) Munich, Bavaria, Germany Education Free University of Berlin (PhD, 1979) Era 21st-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Pragmatism Thesis Praktische Intersubjektivität: Die Entwicklung des Werkes von George Herbert Mead (1979) Main interests Sociology Influences G. H. Mead Hans Joas (/ˈjoʊæs/; German: [ˈjoːas]; born November 27, 1948) is a German sociologist and social theorist. Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor[1] for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2011 until 2014 he was a Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS); from 2002 until 2011 he was the Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He is also Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought and a Member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Hans Joas is Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Non-resident Long-term Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. Contents 1 Life 2 Research 3 Academic awards 4 Books in English 5 Books in German 6 References 7 External links Life[edit] 1968–1971 studying sociology, philosophy, history, German literature at the University of Munich 1971–1972 studying the same disciplines at the Free University of Berlin 1972 "Diploma" in sociology 1973–1977 "Wissenschaftlicher Assistent" (Research and teaching fellow), Department of Sociology, Free University of Berlin 1979 Dr. phil. (Free University of Berlin) 1979–1983 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin (1980–1981 Visiting Professor, University of Tübingen) 1981 Habilitation 1984–1987 Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 1985 (Spring quarter) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1986 (Summer quarter) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto 1987–1990 Professor of Sociology, University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg 1990–2002 Professor of Sociology, Free University of Berlin 1993–1995 Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin 1992 (Spring semester) Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala 1994 (Fall semester) Fellow, Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, Bloomington, Indiana 1996 (Fall semester) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison 1997 (Spring semester) Theodor Heuss Professor, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York 1998 (Spring semester) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Fall semester) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison 1999–2000 Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden since 2000 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Member of the Committee on Social Thought 2002–2011 Director, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany 2002 (Fall semester) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria 2004–2005 Ernst Cassirer Professor, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 2005–2006 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007 (Spring semester) Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, Austria 2010 (Spring semester) Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden 2011 (Spring semester) Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa 2011–2014 Permanent Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany 2014 (Spring semester) Fellow, Torgny Segerstedt Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden since 2014 Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin 2017 (Spring semester) Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa In 2012 Joas was the first scholar to be Visiting Professor of the Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedikt XVI. Foundation at the University of Regensburg. The topic of his lectures was "Sacralization and Secularization". Since November 2015 Joas is a member of the advisory board of the Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e. V.). Research[edit] Hans Joas’ research focuses on social philosophy and sociological theory, mainly American Pragmatism and Historicism; the sociology of religion and the sociology of war and violence; as well as value change in modern societies. The emergence/formation of values is a core theme of Hans Joas’ work. He developed a theory of "Affirmative Genealogy" of values, especially with regard to human rights. According to Joas values originate in experiences of self-formation and self-transcendence. He developed a phenomenology of experiences of self-transcendence. Joas emphasizes that his account of the contingency of value-formation is not to be seen as a plea against the claims of a universalistic morality. Academic awards[edit] 2010: Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis ("Niklas-Luhmann-Preis").[2][3] 2012: Werner Heisenberg medal of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.[4][5] 2012: Doctor honoris causa, University of Tübingen.[6][7] 2013: Doctor honoris causa, Uppsala University.[8][9][10] 2013: Hans-Kilian-Award.[11][12] 2015: Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, Section History of Sociology.[13] 2015: Max-Planck-Research-Award.[14][15] 2017: Prix Paul Ricœur. Books in English[edit] George Herbert Mead. A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought (MIT Press 1985, ISBN 978-0-262-10033-5). Social Action and Human Nature (with Axel Honneth) (Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 978-0-521-33935-3). Pragmatism and Social Theory (University of Chicago Press 1993, 978-0-226-40042-6). The Creativity of Action (University of Chicago Press 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-40044-0). The Genesis of Values (University of Chicago Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-226-40040-2). War and Modernity (Blackwell 2003, ISBN 978-0-745-62644-4). Social Theory (with Wolfgang Knoebl) (Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-87063-4). Do We Need Religion? On the Experience of Self-Transcendence (Paradigm 2009, ISBN 978-1-594-51439-5). The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science (with Barbro Klein) (Brill 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-19284-3) War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present (with Wolfgang Knoebl) (Princeton University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-15084-0). The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights (Georgetown University Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-589-01969-0). The Axial Age and Its Consequences (with Robert Bellah) (Harvard University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-06649-6). Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity (Stanford University Press 2014, ISBN 978-0804792776). The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead (with Daniel R. Huebner) (University of Chicago Press 2016, ISBN 9780226376943). Books in German[edit] Was ist die Achsenzeit? Eine wissenschaftliche Debatte als Diskurs über Transzendenz (Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7965-3360-0). Die lange Nacht der Trauer. Erzählen als Weg aus der Gewalt? (Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8379-2267-7). Sind die Menschenrechte westlich? (Kösel, München 2015, ISBN 978-3466371266). Kirche als Moralagentur? (Kösel, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-466-37175-4). Die Macht des Heiligen. Eine Alternative zur Geschichte von der Entzauberung (Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-58703-4). References[edit] ^ Homepage Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Theology, Ernst-Troeltsch-Honorarprofessur, 11. August 2015 ^ Universität Erfurt, Pressemitteilungen, Archiv, Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis Hans Joas, uni-erfurt.de, 11. August 2015. ^ Homepage University of Bielefeld, Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis Hans Joas, ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de, 11. August 2015. ^ University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Mitteilungen Archiv, 11. August 2015. ^ University of Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Archiv, Presse Archived 2017-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, 11. August 2015. ^ University of Erfurt, Press, Doctor honoris causa of University of Tübingen for Hans Joas, uni-erfurt.de, 11. August 2015. ^ University of Tübingen, uni-tuebingen.de, 11. August 2015. ^ Doctor honoris causa of the University of Uppsala for Hans Joas Archived 2013-04-12 at the Wayback Machine, uni-erfurt.de, 11. August 2015. ^ Universität Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Mitteilungen Archiv, frias.uni-freiburg.de, 11. August 2015. ^ "Honorary doctorates announced in social sciences - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 2016-02-03. ^ Homepage Hans-Kilian-Preis[permanent dead link], hans-kilian-preis.de; retrieved, 21 February 2013 ^ Homepage Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centrum, Award, kilian-koehler-centrum.de, 11. August 2015. ^ Homepage University of Chicago, News Archived 2017-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, sociology.uchicago.edu. 11. August 2015 ^ Homepage Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, News, Awards, Max Planck Research Award 2015, mpg.de, 11. August 2015 ^ Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, press-release, Max Planck Research Award 2015, www.humboldt-foundation.de, 11. August 2015 External links[edit] Literature by and about Hans Joas in the German National Library catalogue Homepage Ernst-Troeltsch-Honorarprofessur at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Hans Joas in the central informationsystem of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Action Is the Way in Which Human Beings Exist in the World An interview with Hans Joas, Freie Universität Berlin, September 21st 1999 Authority control BIBSYS: 90081692 BNE: XX981755 BNF: cb123222410 (data) CiNii: DA02713118 GND: 118020579 ICCU: IT\ICCU\TO0V\082716 ISNI: 0000 0000 8160 5706 LCCN: n81055294 LNB: 000068586 NKC: kup19970000044851 NLA: 35247207 NLI: 000286115 NLK: KAC201516826 NLP: A28903122 NSK: 000039908 NTA: 068947607 PLWABN: 9810704682105606 SELIBR: 390892 SUDOC: 032133448 Trove: 880955 VIAF: 84479314 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n81055294 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Joas&oldid=986815662" Categories: 1948 births Christian scholars German male writers German sociologists Living people University of Chicago faculty University of Erfurt faculty Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from January 2020 Articles with permanently dead external links Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ICCU identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Deutsch Español Français Latviešu Nederlands Русский Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 3 November 2020, at 04:45 (UTC). 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