Peter Wagner (social theorist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German social theorist
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Place of Birth: LĂĽtjenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Peter Wagner (social theorist)
- Peter Wagner is a German social and political theorist.
- His research brings together social and political philosophy and theory with the comparative-historical sociology of modern societies in Europe, Latin America and southern Africa.
- He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences and has contributed to debates about the so-called Axial Age, while his recent work has addressed questions of historical progress and social and political transformations.
- He is a former Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and a former Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
- At present he is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona.He has also held visiting positions at the Université de Paris 8 (2011); the Université catholique de Louvain-la-neuve (2009–10); University of Cape Town (2009–10); the University of Bergen (2001); the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1998; 2001); the University of California at Berkeley (1996; 1997); the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1990–91); and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1994), among others.
- He was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded Advanced Grant project “Trajectories of modernity: comparing non-European and European varieties”, and the Project Leader of the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past” on the project “The debt: historicizing Europe's relations with the 'South'”, with Axel Honneth, Simona Forti and Bo Stråth as Principal Investigators.
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