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PhD Sociology University of Oxford
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According to Wikipedia, Patrick Baert is a Belgian sociologist and social theorist, based in Britain. He is a professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Baert studied at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at Oxford University where he obtained his D.Phil. in 1990. In Oxford, he studied with Rom Harré and wrote his dissertation on George Herbert Mead's notion of time and its relevance for social theory, subsequently published as Time, Self and Social Being. He carried out postdoctoral work with Claude Javeau in Brussels and Anthony Giddens in Cambridge before taking up a teaching position at Cambridge. He has held various visiting positions, including at Brown University, the University of Cape Town, the CNRS/EHESS and the University of British Columbia. His most recent books include The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual and Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals . He also published Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. and Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism. Since January 2013, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

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Contemporary philosophy of social science (1991) (336)
Social Theory in the Twentieth Century (1998) (175)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (2005) (162)
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: A TYPOLOGY AND EXAMPLES (1991) (79)
Positioning Theory and Intellectual Interventions (2012) (77)
Realist Philosophy of the social sciences and economics: a critique (1996) (65)
Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2009) (56)
University under siege? (2005) (51)
Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals (2015) (27)
Tensions Within the Public Intellectual: Political Interventions from Dreyfus to the New Social Media (2012) (27)
Pragmatism as a Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2004) (26)
A performative framework for the study of intellectuals (2018) (26)
Reflections on Patrick Baert’s The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (2015) (26)
Patrick Baert: The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (2019) (24)
Towards a Pragmatist-Inspired Philosophy of Social Science (2005) (21)
Copyright© 2006 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) and David Rasmussen (2006) (21)
Pragmatism, Realism and Hermeneutics (2003) (21)
Time, Self, and Social Being: Temporality Within a Sociological Context (1992) (19)
The Dark Side of Podemos?: Carl Schmitt and Contemporary Progressive Populism (2018) (18)
Transforming the intellectual (2011) (17)
Foucault's history of the present as self-referential knowledge acquisition (1998) (17)
Time in contemporary intellectual thought (2000) (16)
The sudden rise of French existentialism: a case-study in the sociology of intellectual life (2011) (15)
Conflict Citizenship and Civil Society (2009) (11)
Acting out ideas: Performative citizenship in the Black Consciousness Movement (2018) (10)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2009) (10)
The Sociology of Intellectuals (2017) (9)
Social Constructionism, Postmodernism and Deconstructionism (2011) (9)
New Pragmatism and Old Europe (2004) (9)
Social theory and the social sciences (2005) (8)
Conflict in the Academy (2015) (8)
Pragmatism versus sociological hermeneutics (2002) (8)
Richard Rorty's Pragmatism and the Social Sciences (2002) (7)
The power struggle of French intellectuals at the end of the Second World War: A study in the sociology of ideas (2011) (7)
Local Chairs vs International Networks: the Beginning of the Scholarly Career in a Peripheral Academic Field (2014) (7)
Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair (2016) (6)
Neo-Pragmatim and Phenomenology. A Proposal (2011) (6)
Existence theory: Outline for a theory of social behaviour (2021) (5)
Jean-Paul Sartre’s positioning in Anti-Semite and Jew (2011) (5)
THE PHILOSOPHER AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL (2016) (5)
The rise of the embedded intellectual: new forms of public engagement and critique (2013) (4)
Reflections on the Use of Positioning Theory in the Sociology of Intellectuals 1 (2018) (4)
Simulation of Manufacturing Processes via Virtual Reality (2015) (4)
Pragmatism defended: A reply to Simon Susen (2013) (4)
TIME, REFLECTIVITY AND SOCIAL ACTION (1992) (4)
Collectives of intellectuals: Their cohesiveness, accountability, and who can speak on their behalf (2020) (3)
Contextualizing Max Weber (2007) (3)
The Existentialist Moment Defended: A Reply to Simon Susen (2017) (3)
Serious game framework confronted with specificities of industrial training: application to steel industry (2015) (3)
Chapter 11 Social theory, complexity and time (2000) (2)
‘The Fool’ Revisited: The Making of Žižek as Sacrificial Public Intellectual (2021) (2)
The Creation of an Invented Future: An Inquiry into G.H. Mead’s Relatively-Open Future with Special Reference to Sociological Theory (1989) (2)
Autopoiesis, Self‐organisation and Symbolic Interactionism: Some Convergences (1988) (2)
Rom Harré, Positioning Theory and the Social Sciences: A Personal and Sympathetic Portrait (2019) (1)
Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to Dialogue (2009) (1)
Introduction to the special section on Intellectuals and Politics (2011) (1)
The Politics of Knowledge. An Introduction (2018) (1)
Evolution, agency, and objects (2013) (1)
Introduction: a Special Issue on Public Intellectuals (2012) (1)
Social fluidity: the politics of a theoretical model F e RNANDO J . gARCíA SeLgAS (2013) (1)
A Social Theory Dialogue (2008) (1)
Evolution, Agency, and Objects: Re-Discovering Classical Pragmatism (2013) (1)
Forces characterization from trajectory equations in virtual reality simulations for industrial applications (2016) (0)
Hatchery technology in Vietnam: an overview (1995) (0)
version--Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2012) (0)
Secularisation and the politics of religious knowledge BR Y AN S . T U RN e R (2013) (0)
The Silent Force of the Screen (1987) (0)
Intellectuals and society (2011) (0)
Chronology of Events (2019) (0)
Pragmatist Philosophy of Social Science: A Proposal (2018) (0)
Exploring Crossmodal Interaction of Tactile and Visual Cues on Temperature Perception in Virtual Reality: a Preliminary Study (2021) (0)
Transforming the intellectual PATRICk BAeRT A ND A L AN ShI PMAN (2013) (0)
Explaining Intellectuals: A Proposal (2014) (0)
The Relationship between Social Theory and Empirical Research: A Pragmatist Proposal (2006) (0)
EXTRACT FROM "PRAGMATISM AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL THEORY", EDITED BY PATRICK BAERT & BRYAN S. TURNER, © THE BARDWELL PRESS, 2007 (2007) (0)
Biographies and the Sociology of the Future: A Proposal (2016) (0)
Realism as a New Philosophy of Social Science (1999) (0)
The Theory of Everything: A Sympathetic Critique of Andeas Reckwitz’s The Society of Singularities (2022) (0)
Research with a Purpose: A Reply to My Critics (2009) (0)
Intellectuals and Politics (2014) (0)
Podemos’ encounter with Schmitt (2018) (0)
A case study of the reception of 'structuralism' in English Studies in the UK (2020) (0)
Acting out ideas: Performative citizenship in the Black Consciousness Movement (2017) (0)
Using Haptic Forces Feedback for Immersive and Interactive Simulation in Industrial Context (2015) (0)
A Century of Influences and Interactions , vol . 1 Neo-Pragmatim and Phenomenology A Proposal (2017) (0)
The politics of public reason Sh eILA JAS ANO F F (2013) (0)
A New Loose-Coupling Method for Vision-Inertial Systems Based on Retro-Correction and Inconsistency Treatment (2019) (0)
Contextualising the Dispute (2015) (0)
New methodological approaches to the study of classics of social theory and sociology (2011) (0)
XREcho: a unity plug-in to record and visualize user behavior during XR sessions (2022) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2012) (0)
Introduction: a Special Issue on Public Intellectuals (2012) (0)
The End of Prophecy: A Comment on Pryor’s Study (2000) (0)
Populism and the New Political Order (2018) (0)
Confessions without guilt: public confessions of state violence in Turkey (2021) (0)
Hatchery technology in Vietnam: an overview: 414-417 (1995) (0)
Existence theory revisited: A reply to our critics (2021) (0)
Local Chairs vs International Networks: the Beginning of the Scholarly Career in a Peripheral Academic Field (2013) (0)
Introduction: Key Issues in the Sociology of Intellectuals (2017) (0)
Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair (2016) (0)
Tensions Within the Public Intellectual: Political Interventions from Dreyfus to the New Social Media (2012) (0)
The Schmitt-Podemos connection (2018) (0)
Derek Robbins’ muddle: A brief reply (2020) (0)
One of the editors of Theory moved from North to South Amrica and joined the other editor at Iuperj, a small but vibrant research institute in social and political sciences in Rio de Janeiro (2007) (0)
Mainstreaming Relational Socioloy – Relational Analysis of Culture in Digithum (2016) (0)
Confessions without guilt: public confessions of state violence in Turkey (2020) (0)
Examples of Symbolic Strategies Employed by the Antis (2015) (0)
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, IX-2 | 2017 (2019) (0)
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PRAGMATISM AND AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY (2012) (0)
Realism versus Pragmatism – an Introduction (2003) (0)
Intellectuals in Pursuit of Populism: A Historical Perspective (2018) (0)
Nebula: An Affordable Open-Source and Autonomous Olfactory Display for VR Headsets (2022) (0)
A Case Study of the Reception of “Structuralism” in English Studies in the United Kingdom (2020) (0)
Imagining the political future (2018) (0)
‘Step inside: knowledge freely available’ – the politics of (making) knowledge- objects J AMe S LeA Ch (2013) (0)
Introduction: A Storm in a Teacup? (2015) (0)
Introduction to the special issue on existence theory (2021) (0)
Collateral realities JOhN L AW (2013) (0)
Imagining the political past (2018) (0)

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