Hans Joas

Hans Joas
Hans Joas (2014)
Born	(1948-11-27) November 27, 1948 (age 75) Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Education	Free University of Berlin (PhD, 1979)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Pragmatism
Thesis	Praktische Intersubjektivität: Die Entwicklung des Werkes von George Herbert Mead (1979)
Main interests	Sociology

Hans Joas (/ˈjoʊæs/; German: [ˈjoːas]; born November 27, 1948) is a German sociologist and social theorist.

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor^[1] for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2011 until 2014 he was a Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS); from 2002 until 2011 he was the Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. Since 2000 he has also been Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought and a Member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Hans Joas is Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.