Patrick Baert

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Full Name	Patrick Baert
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 23, 1961(1961-01-23)
Age	63
Birthplace	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Horoscope	Capricorn

Patrick Baert Biography

Patrick Baert is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on January 23, 1961 in Brussels, Belgium. Baert’s most recent work is situated in the intersection of the sociology of intellectuals as well as intellectual history. In the Existentialist Moment explains the sudden popularity of Sartre as an influential public intellectual during the late 1940s. The book Baert discusses the transformation of the cultural and intellectual area within France throughout WWII and illustrates the ways in which Sartre was able to use an elegant language to understand and deal with the aftermath of the conflict. Baert concentrates on the struggles of French intellectuals of the collaborationist movement, where the notion of responsibility was huge – a notion that also became a central part of the larger cultural world during the time. At this time Sartre revised his philosophical stance to make it more simple and more digestible, and concentrating around the idea of intellectual responsibility. This is why he conceived of the engaged intellectual, which later was the guiding principle for his publication Les Temps modernes.

The journal Human Studies published a special issue. Human Studies was dedicated to the Baert symposium Philosophy of the Social Sciences towards Pragmatism. This edition, Stephen Turner questioned Baert’s attempt to encourage dialogue while insisting on a concept of knowledge. The same magazine Paul Roth argues that Baert is contradicting himself. While rightly opposing the notion of a scientific methodology, Baert then surprisingly suggests the possibility of exploring self-referential information. Bohman asserts that Baert isn’t aware of the capacity for social researchers to come up with generalisations that could enable emancipatory agendas for political action. For a debate on the subject with Baert with Peter Manicas, see the Journal of Critical Realism; Although Manicas is supportive of Dewey, Manicas disagrees with Baert’s Neo-Pragmatism. For a debate on critical theory between Patrick Baert/Filipe Cope da Silva and Simon Susen (in relation to Baert and Silva’s book from 2010) Check out the magazine Distinktion; Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. Whilst sympathetic, Susen laments, for instance, Baert and Carreira da Silva’s anti-foundationalism.

Baert’s earlier work deals with the philosophy of social sciences. He argues against several existing contributions to the philosophy of social sciences. Against those philosophies of social science that infer prescriptions for the social sciences based on attempts to demarcate science from non-science, he argues that developments in the history and sociology of science have undermined the validity of the notion of demarcation. Contrary to those social scientists who liken their empirical research to an arbitration court that helps to decide the fate of the theory or research programme under consideration, he contends that research in the social sciences relies on theoretical presuppositions which are contestable – and contested – to such an extent that empirical research cannot be regarded as a straightforward testing device. In opposition to what he coins ‘the social cartography model’ (according to which high-quality social research captures the inner essence of the social world as accurately and completely as possible and social theory provides the conceptual building blocks for this representation), he argues that it is not fruitful to conceive of research in terms of the passive recording of the external world, and that this representational model ultimately leads to theoretical ossification.

The last chapter of The Existentialst Moment develops the theoretical framework – positioning theory – that underpins the book. This frame of reference also guides partly Conflict in the Academy although the latter also draws explicitly on insights from cultural sociology.

Baert was a student at the Vrije University Brussels (VUB) and also at Oxford University where he obtained his D.Phil. in the year 1990. In 1990, at Oxford in 1990, he was a student of Rom Harre and wrote his dissertation on George Herbert Mead’s idea of the concept of time, and its importance to social theory. The dissertation was later released under the title Time, Self and Social Being. He did postdoctoral research in collaboration with Claude Javeau in Brussels and Anthony Giddens in Cambridge before beginning a teaching job at Cambridge. He has held a variety of posts as a visiting scholar, including Brown University, the University of Cape Town as well as the CNRS/EHESS, and the University of British Columbia. His most recent publications comprise The Existentialist Moment; The of Sartre as a Public Intellectual; The of Sartre as an public Intellectual and (co-written together with Marcus Morgan) Conflict in the Academy and a Research Study into the Sociology of Intellectuals. He also wrote Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. as well as Philosophy of the Social Sciences towards Pragmatism. In January of 2013, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

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At the close of The Existentialist Moment Baert also discusses the gradual loss of the interest for Sartre and existentialism starting from the 1960s to. As the institution of social sciences grew and grew, of social science experts in public intellectuals grew importance in comparison to influential public intellectuals. Public intellectuals who are authoritative like Sartre depend on their privileges and elite education to talk with moral conviction on various political and social issues but without having a specific expertise in these areas. Public intellectuals with expertise draw upon their training in methodology and experience in sociology to influence in political debates. In this regard the development of structuralism during the 1950s and the late 1950s is particularly important. Contrary to the existentialism of the 1950s (which was firmly rooted within the humanities) it was compatible with the emergence of social sciences (and even with other theoretic movements like Marxism as well as psychoanalysis).

Patrick Baert (born 23 January 1961 in Brussels) is a Belgian sociologist and social theorist who is who is based in Britain. The professor is of Sociological Theory in The University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Baert argues in favour of a neo-pragmatist philosophy of social science which promotes social research in the pursuit of self-referential knowledge. Whereas many contributions to the philosophy of social science assume that social research is primarily an explanatory (and possibly predictive) endeavor, Baert contends that this picture does not correspond to the actual practice of social research. He points out that few significant contributions to sociology – and social research in general – are straightforward explanatory works, and even fewer are exclusively explanatory. Baert’s position is that most of those groundbreaking works involve ‘self-referential knowledge’: they enable communities to re-describe and re-conceptualise themselves and their presuppositions. Inspired by Rorty’s neo-pragmatism, he has argued in favour of the pursuit of self-referential knowledge, and he has analysed the methodological strategies that make this possible in various disciplines, ranging from archaeology and social anthropology to sociology and history. For instance, Nietzsche’s genealogical history can provide contemporary communities with tools that enable them to re-evaluate the moral and cognitive categories they use to describe the world and their place within it. Baer’s notion of self-referential knowledge relates to the German notion of Bildung or self-edification and with a new role for intellectuals, whereby they facilitate envisaging alternative socio-political scenarios rather than presenting a set of normative or epistmeological foundations.

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