Sociology of the Next Society / Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives (PDF)

Gerhard Preyer (Dr. phil. habil.) is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany. He teaches courses on sociology at the Goethe University and philosophy at West European Universities and China. His areas of research are the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, sociological theory and comparative sociology. He is the editor of ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. Some of his recent publications are: S. Miguens, G. Preyer, C. Bravo Morando eds., Pre-Reflective Consciousness. Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (London: Routledge 2016, New York 2017); G. Preyer ed., Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2018); G. Preyer, G. Peter eds., Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality. Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses (Cham: Springer, 2017); G. Preyer, Soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft (3 vols., 2e), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018).

Reuss-Markus Krauße (Dr. phil.) works on the ProtoSociology project at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He is a management consultant and intercultural trainer for successful cooperation with business partners from China. He has published several research volumes in German, among them being: Hybridisierung Chinas Modernisierung und Mitgliedschaftsordnung der chinesischen Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016), Ohnmächtige Weltmacht China: Modernisierung ohne Harmonie (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, with G. Preyer).