Prof. Johann Pall Arnason












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            * prof. Johann Pall Arnason
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            Professor

            E-mail: J.Arnason(zavinac)latrobe.edu.au [ MAIL "(zavinac)"]

            Professor


            Contacts and office hours:
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            Courses:

            see SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php?do=ucit&kod=14740"]

            Johann P. Arnason, born 1940 in Iceland, studied philosophy, history and sociology in Prag

            He taught sociology in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1972 to 1975, and at La Trobe Univers
            Australia, from 1975 to 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etu
            Sociales, Paris, and at the University of Leipzig, and a research fellow of the Alexander 

            Stiftung, the Swedish Institute of Advanced Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut
            Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen and the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt.


            He is now emeritus professor of sociology at La Trobe University and teaches every winter 
            the Faculty of Humanities. His research interests centre on social theory and historical s
            particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations.


            His publications include:
            Praxis und Interpretation – Sozialphilosophische Studien. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1988.

            The Future that Failed: Origins and Destinies of the Soviet Model. London: Routledge, 1993
            Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. London: Sage, 1997.
            Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions, Leiden, Boston:

            Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Re
            edited with Björn Wittrock). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004.
            Axial Civilizations and World History (co-edited with S.N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock).

            Brill, 2005.
            Domains and Divisions of European History (co-edited with Natalie Doyle). Liverpool: Liver
            Press, 2010.

            The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-edited with Kurt 
            Oxford, Malden: 2011.
            Nordic Paths to Modernity (co-edited with Björn Wittrock). Oxford, New York: Berghahn Book