Frédéric Vandenberghe (Associated Fellow)October 2024 - Oktober 2025

15 September 2024

Frédéric Vandenberghe is a social theorist, working at the intersection of philosophy, sociology and anthropology. His main research interests are related to German social philosophy (Critical theory, hermeneutics and phenomenology), Anglo-Saxon social theory (critical realism, pragmatism and cultural sociology) and French sociological theory (post-Bourdieusian sociology, anti-utilitarianism. He’s currently writing a book on political hermeneutics on the rise and fall of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and another one on anti-utilitarian social theory. He’s also doing fieldwork on farmers’s suicide in India’s cotton belt. 

Frédéric is professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ) in Brazil. He’s currently also a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS). He’s the president of the Research Committee of Sociological Theory (RC 16) of the ISA and co-editor of Mauss International. For more about his work see his website.

Frédéric Vandenberghe is associated with the Centre via the HIAS.