Dr Daniel Chernilo

biography : publications : workshops & talks : links

Books in English

Under contract with Cambridge University Press. The natural law foundations of modern social theory: A quest for universalism.

2007. A social theory of the nation-state: The political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, London: Routledge, 197 pages.

Books in Spanish

In press. La pretensión universalista de la teoría social, Santiago: LOM-University of Chile.
(three original articles plus Spanish translations of: 2004b, 2005, 2008b, 2010a, 2010b).

2010. Nacionalismo y cosmopolitismo: ensayos sociológicos, Santiago: Diego Portales University Press, 220 pages.
(Including: 2003, 2004a, 2006a, 2007a, 2007b, 2008a, 2009b, 2009c).

Special Issue

2005. with Aldo Mascareño (eds.) ‘Observaciones sociológicas de Chile en el nuevo siglo: continuidades y rupturas’, Persona y Sociedad 19 (3), 289 pp.

Chapters in Books and Journal Articles

2010a. ‘On the relationships between social theory and natural law: Lessons from Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss’, History of the Human Sciences 23 (5): in press

2010b. ‘Methodological nationalism and the domestic analogy: Classical resources for their critique’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23 (1): 87-106.

2009a. with Aldo Mascareño. ‘Obstacles and Perspectives of Latin American Sociology: Normative Universalism and Functional Differentiation’, Soziale Systeme 15 (1): 72-96.
(Spanish version in Mascareño, A. (2010) Diferenciación y Contingencia en América Latina, Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Albero Hurtado)

2009b. ‘Cosmopolitanism and social theory’, in Turner, B. S. (ed) The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell: 533-50.

2009c. ‘Talcott Parsons’ sociology of the nation-state’, in Hart, C. (ed.) Collection of Essays in Honour of Talcott Parsons, Cheshire, Midrash: 206-31.

2009d. ‘Introducción’, in Archer, M. S. Teoría Social Realista: El Enfoque Morfogenético, Santiago: University Alberto Hurtado Press: 11-20.

2008a. ‘Classical sociology and the nation-state: A re-interpretation’, Journal of Classical Sociology 8 (1): 27-43.

2008b. ‘Universalismo: Reflexiones sobre los fundamentos filosóficos de la sociología’, Revista de Sociología 22: 165-91.

2008c. ‘El horizonte cosmopolita de la teoría de Jürgen Habermas’, Revista de Ciencias Sociales 52: 323-45.

2007a. ‘A quest for universalism: Re-assessing the nature of classical social theory’s cosmopolitanism’, European Journal of Social Theory 10 (1): 17-35.
(Reprinted in Gerard Delanty and David Inglis (2010) (eds) Cosmopolotanism: Critical Concepts, London: Routledge).

2007b. ‘Universalismo y cosmopolitismo en la teoría de Jürgen Habermas’, Estudios Públicos 106: 175-203.

2006a. ‘Social theory’s methodological nationalism: Myth and reality’, European Journal of Social Theory 9 (1): 5-22
(Russian translation in press).

2006b. ‘Methodological nationalism and its critique’, in Delanty, G. and Kumar, K. (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, Sage, London: 129-40.

2005. with Aldo Mascareño. ‘Universalismo, particularismo y sociedad mundial: Obstáculos y perspectivas de la sociología en América Latina’, Persona y Sociedad 19 (3): 17-45.

2004a. with Robert Fine. ‘Between past and future: The equivocations of the new cosmopolitanism’, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 31: 25-44.

2004b. ‘La sociedad como ideal regulativo’, Cinta de Moebio 21, http://www.moebio.uchile.cl/21/frames02.htm.

2003. with Robert Fine. ‘Classes and nations in recent historical sociology’, in Delanty, G., and Isin, E. (eds.) Handbook of Historical Sociology, Sage, London: 235-49.

2002. ‘The theorisation of social coordinations in differentiated societies. The theory of generalised symbolic media in Parsons, Luhmann and Habermas’, British Journal of Sociology 53 (3): 431-49.
(Spanish version in Farías, I. y Ossandón, J. (eds.) (2006) Observando Sistemas. Nuevas aportaciones y usos de la teoría de Niklas Luhmann, Ril – Editores, Santiago).

Translations

2009. English into Spanish: Margaret Archer Teoría Social Realista: El Enfoque Morfogenético, Santiago University Alberto Hurtado Press (450 pages).
(Published originally as Realist social theory: The morphogenetic approach, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995).

2004. English into Spanish: Robert Fine ‘Cosmopolitismo sin ‘ismo’: Un ensayo reconstructivo’, Persona y Sociedad, 18 (2): 239-62.
Published originally as ‘Taking the ‘ism’ out of cosmopolitanism: An essay in reconstruction’ European Journal of Social Theory 6 (4): 451-70, 2003.

Talks (since 2008)

Lectures, seminars and workshops by invitation

2011 (January). University of Jena, Germany, Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change. Faculty Seminar.

2011 (January). University of Jena, Germany, Department of Sociology. Departmental lecture and doctoral workshop.

2010 (November).  University of Warwick, Department of Sociology. Workshop on critical realism and sociology in the work of Margaret Archer.

2010 (October). University of Newcastle. Departmental Seminar Series.

2010 (October). University of Brno, Czech Republic. International workshop on Theorising Identities.

2010 (September). National University Singapore, Department of Sociology. International workshop on Global Modernity.

2010 (September). University Alberto Hurtado, Chile, Department of Sociology. Lecture series on ‘Description and normativity in contemporary social theory’, PhD programme.

2010 (September). University Alberto Hurtado, Chile, Department of Sociology. International workshop on Emergence in contemporary sociology. Paper: ‘Sociology, emergence and the problem of “the human” ’.

2010 (August) University of Santiago, Chile. Lecture: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

2010 (June). University of Warwick, Institute for Advanced Study. Workshop on Natural Rights and Social Theory. Paper ‘Between Social Theory and Natural Law: Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss’.

2010 (June). Loughborough University, Department of Social Sciences. One-day colloquium on Conceptualising Identity in Psychology, Media and Society.  Paper: ‘Sociology and the problem of “the human” ’.

2010 (May). Loughborough University, Communication and Media Research Group Seminar Series. Paper: ‘Critiques of methodological nationalism in the social sciences’.

2010 (March). Loughborough University, Postgraduate Research Support Group. Paper: ‘Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Reflections on doing a research degree in the UK’.

2010 (February). University of Warwick, Social Theory Centre. Workshop ‘Latin American Modernities’. Roundtable discussion.

2009 (December). WZB, Berlin Social Science Research Centre. Workshop ‘Functional Differentiation in International Relations and Sociology’. Paper: ‘Social Theory and Differentiation Processes: Their Universalistic Layout’.

2009 (October). University of Surrey, Department of Sociology. Seminar Series. Paper ‘Eleven Theses on the Relationships Between Sociology and Natural Law’.

2009. (October). University of Birmingham, Department of Sociology. Seminar Series. Paper ‘Between Social Theory and Natural Law: Lessons from Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss’.

2009 (September). University Alberto Hurtado - Chile. Seminar Normative Challenges of World Society. Paper ‘Cosmpolitanism as a regulative ideal’.

2009 (September). University Academia de Humanismo Cristiano - Chile. Panel What is sociology today. Paper: ‘The claim to universalism in classical and contemporary sociology’.

2009 (September). Universidad Diego Portales & Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez - Chile. Coloquium on Jürgen Habermas. Paper: ‘Jürgen Habermas: Between Social Theory and Natural Law‘.

2009 (July). University of Warwick, Institute for Advanced Study. Guest Lecturer, Summer School ‘Social theory for a global age: Cosmopolitanism and Post-Colonialism’. Lectures on cosmopolitanism and the critique of methodological nationalism.

2009 (June). University of Chile, MA in Systemic Analysis. Lecture: ‘The theory of generalized symbolic media in Parsons Habermas and Luhmann’.

2009 (May). University of Chile, Department of Anthropology. Lecture: ‘The concept of the nation in the history of sociology’.

2009 (January). University Alberto Hurtado and Catholic University, Departments of Psychology – Santiago. Workshop on ‘Banality and Nationalism in the work of Michael Billig’. Paper: ‘The critique of methodological nationalism in the social sciences’.

2008. (December). IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Guest Lecturer at their Theory Forum. Paper: ‘The problem of methodological nationalism in sociology and international relations’.

2008 (October). Catholic University – Santiago, Centre for Studies in Educational Policy and Practice. Presentation of Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach.

2008 (October). University of Chile, Faculty of Social Sciences. Lecture: ‘The role of a public university’.

2008 (October). Goethe Institute, Santiago. Workshop ‘Niklas Luhmann: His legacy after 10 years’. Paper: ‘Social theory and theory of society: The case of Niklas Luhmann’.

2008 (August). University of Chile, Faculty of Social Sciences. Special event to launch A Social Theory of the Nation-State.

2008 (August). University of Chile, Law School. Third Workshop on Philosophy of Right, Paper ‘Universalism and cosmopolitanism in Jürgen Habermas’.

2008 (May). University Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, School of Government - Chile. Lecture: ‘Jürgen Habermas’ theory of power’.