Peter Wagner (Social theorist)

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Peter Wagner is a German social philosopher. His research focus is with the issues of social theory and political philosophy of contemporary Europe. He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences, and has in his publications attempted to formulate and utilize a sociology of modernity.

[edit] Publications

• Vanishing Points of modernity. Inescapability and attainability in social theory (forthcoming)
• Theorizing Modernity. Inescapability and attainability in social theory (2001)
• Le travail et la nation (co-editor, 1999)
• A Sociology of Modernity (1994)
• Der Raum des Gelehrten (with Heidrun Friese, 1993).

[edit] See also

• Modernization