Hans Joas

Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought

Selected Publications In English

• The Genesis of Values, University of Chicago Press (2000).
• War and Modernity, Blackwell Publishers (2003).
• Do We Need Religion? On the Experience of Self-Transcendence, Paradigm Publishers (2008). 
• Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures, Cambridge University Press (with W. Knöbl, 2009).
• The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, Georgetown University Press (2013).
• War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present, Princeton University Press (with W. Knöbl, 2013).
• Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity, Stanford University Press (2014). 

Courses Taught

• Human Rights & Sociological Theory
• William James
• Max Scheler
• Modern Sociological Theory
• Religious Innovation & Historical Sociology
• George Herbert Mead
• Pragmatism and Social Theory