Prix Paul Ricœur 2017
Max Planck Research Award 2015
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, Section History of Sociology 2015
Hans Kilian Prize 2013
Doctor honoris causa, Uppsala University 2013
Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2012
Doctor honoris causa, University of Tübingen...
Prix Paul Ricœur 2017
Max Planck Research Award 2015
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, Section History of Sociology 2015
Hans Kilian Prize 2013
Doctor honoris causa, Uppsala University 2013
Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2012
Doctor honoris causa, University of Tübingen 2012
Member of Academia Europaea 2011
Bielefeld Science Award (Niklas Luhmann Prize) 2010
Considering the well-being of all people when making moral and political decisions – for many people today, this is at least seen as an ideal. But such a humanist ethics was not always a given, and is still not universally valued. So when and where did it emerge – and why? Is it a peculiarity of the Judeo-Christian or Western Enlightenment tradition? And how is its emergence linked to the...
How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to one another? The diversity of opinions on this in the fields of philosophy, the humanities and social sciences and in...
English world rights (Oxford UP), Spanish world rights (Loyola)
»Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the...
English world rights (Oxford UP), Spanish world rights (Herder), France (Seuil), Netherlands (Lemniscaat), Hungary (Gondolat)
»What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The...
English world rights (Georgetown UP), Spanish world rights (Sal Terrae), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), France (Labor et Fides), Italy (Franco Angeli), Croatia (Breza)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP)
»Public and intellectual debates have long struggled with the concept of values and the difficulties of defining them. With The Genesis of Values, renowned theorist Hans Joas...
English world rights (University of Chicago Press), Russia (Aletheia), France (Calmann-Lévy), Italy (Quodlibet), Poland (Oficyna Naukowa)
»Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. In this outstanding book he outlines the fundamentals of a new theory of action, drawing on philosophical pragmatism. The...
English world rights (Polity), Russia (Aletheia)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (CIS), France (Cerf), Korea (Hanul)
»This major study reassesses the work of the American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which had a significant impact in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to...
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (MIT Press), France (Economica)