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Chair Professor of Social
Theory Peter Baehr is a sociologist with a special interest in social and political theory. Before coming to Hong Kong in 2000, he taught in Britain and Canada. He is best known for his work on Hannah Arendt and Max Weber but his research interests are broad. They encompass the study of political language, the nature of predatory regime-types, and mass response to emergency. Peter Baehr is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, French, Italian, and Japanese. His books have been published by Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, and by Penguin and Transaction. His latest book is for Stanford University Press. Aside from his position at Lingnan University, Peter Baehr is a member of the Scientific Board of the Lucca (Italy) Institute of Advanced Studies, and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. Locally, he is a member of the Hong Kong Transition Project, and the Hong Kong Forum (an affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York). He sits as an international editor on four journals, and is an Executive Member of the International Sociological Association (History of Sociology Section). Peter Baehr’s articles have appeared in such venues as the American Sociological Review, Archives européennes de sociologie, Harvard International Review, History and Theory, and Political Theory.
1. History of Predatory Regime Types: Tyranny, Despotism, Dictatorship, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism 2. Mass Emergency Response/Disaster 3. Classical and Contemporary Social/Political Thought 4. Hong Kong's Vulnerability to Terrorism Publications | Top
Journal of Classical Sociology. Special Issue on The Thought and Legacy of Raymond Aron (work in progress). Guest Editor. Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. Special Issue on The Iraq and Afghan Wars: Sociological Perspectives (work in progress). Guest Editor. Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Author), Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. Caesarism, Charisma and Fate in the Work of Max Weber (Author), New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction, 2008. Journal of Classical Sociology. Special Issue on the Centenary of
Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic”. Guest Editor. 5:1
(2005). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other
Writings (Co-editor/translator [with Gordon C. Wells]), New York:
Penguin, 2002, pp. 392. Designated
an “Outstanding Academic Book of 1998” by Choice
"Islamism and Modern Terror," Society, 2009, forthcoming. "An American University in Afghanistan: An Interview with Athanasios Moulakis," Society, 2008, forthcoming. "The Fabrication of Man," History of the Human Sciences, 2008, forthcoming. Book Review of Dmitry Shlapentokh, The Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes, International History Review, 2008, forthcoming. "City under Siege," in Networked Disease (eds. Harris Ali and Roger Keil). Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, forthcoming. Book Review of Dmitry Shlapentokh, The Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes, International History Review, 30:3, September 2008, pp. 603-4. "What are the 'Knowledge Conditions' of Sociology?," Current Sociology, 56:6, 2008, pp. 943 - 951. Book Review of Sam Whimster, Understanding Weber, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 33:3, 2008, pp. 701-703. "'The Masses' in Hannah Arendt's Theory of Totalitarianism," The Good Society, 16:2, 2007, pp.12-18. Review of Steve Fuller "The New Sociological Imagination," British Journal of Sociology, 58:3, 2007, pp.500-1. "Philosophy, Sociology, and the Intelligentsia," in Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 19:3, 2007, pp.341-373. (In Chinese and English). "Fascism, Ethnic Cleansing, and the 'New Militarism': Assessing the Recent Historical Sociology of Michael Mann," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 10:1, 2007, pp. 99-113. "Randall Collins," in John Scott (editor), in Fifty Contemporary Sociologists. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 84-90. "Pacifismo Realista", Ventunesimo Secolo, October 2006, pp. 217-226. "Susan Sontag, Battle Language, and the SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong," Economy and Society, 35 (1) 2006, pp. 42-64. "Social Extremity, Communities of Fate, and the Sociology of SARS," European Journal of Sociology, 46:2, 2005, pp. 179-211. “Schicksalsgemeinschaft in German Political Thought,” Societas 13, 2005, pp. 81-200 (in Chinese). "Deciphering a Classic Text: The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism" 100 Years On," Shiso 10:978, 2005, pp. 6-26 (in Japanese). “The Sociology of Almost Everything” (Debate with Randall Collins), Canadian Journal of Sociology Online Jan.-Feb. 2005. http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/interactionritual.html “Totalitarianism,” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Vol. 6, 2005, pp. 2342-2348. “Personal Dilemma or Intellectual Influence? The Relationship between Hannah Arendt and Max Weber,” Max Weber Studies 5.1, 2005, pp. 125-130. “Max Weber and the Avatars of Caesarism,” in Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism (Co-editor [with Melvin Richter] and contributor), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 155-174. “Of Politics and Social Science,” European Journal of Political Theory 3:2, 2004, pp. 191-217. “In Search of Joanna Tse: Reflections on Heroism and Decency in Extreme Situations,” Quest 3:2, 2004, pp. 13-35. “On the Heroism of Decency,” St. John’s Review 72, 2004, pp. 20-21. “Hong Kong, la Cina continentale e l’epidemia della Sars” Ventunesimo Secolo 6, 2004, pp. 91-115 “The Critical Path,” Times Literary Supplement 31st January
2003, pp. 3-5. Feature article
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