Hans Joas
Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought.
Foster 309
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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