Birks Forum: Universalism without Imperialism?
Birks Forum
Universalism without Imperialism?
Guest Speaker:
Prof. Hans Joas
Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His numerous publications include, Under the Spell of Freedom. Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche (2024), The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment (2021), War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present (2013), The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, (2013). Among his numerous prizes are the Niklas Luhmann Prize in 2010; the Max Planck Research Award in 2015; the Prix Paul Ricoeur in 2017 and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Sociological Association in 2022.
