About the Contributors

Santiago Calise is a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina and a Lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires, and was Postdoctoral Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bielefeld (2016–2018). His areas of interest are systems theory and sociology of law and politics. He has recently published on Luhmann's systems theory on topics like language (Sociológia – Slovak Sociological Review; Croatian Sociological Review) and social networks (The Russian Sociological Review).

Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, Codirector of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and Cochair of the Committee of Social Theory at The University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Director of the International Social Theory Consortium, and Editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory. He is the author of The Vitality of Critical Theory (2011), editor of Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and the State in Modern Times (2000), coeditor of Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy (2014), Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective (2019), and the author of numerous articles (in various journals) and book chapters. Among his current projects are Modern Society as Artifice: Critical Theory and the Logic of Capital (Routledge) and on planetary sociology.

Anthony J. Knowles is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include automation and the future of labor, critical theory, basic income, queer theory, and political theory and democracy. He is currently conducting research at the University of Bielefeld for his dissertation project that involves a comparative historical and theoretical analysis of automation and technological displacement in the United States and Germany.

John Levi Martin is the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures (2009), The Explanation of Social Action (2011), Thinking Through Theory (2014), Thinking Through Methods (2017), and Thinking Through Statistics (2018). He is currently working on a book on the development of architectonics for theories of action.

Tobias Schlechtriemen is Akademischer Rat (Associate Lecturer) at the Institute of Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include cultural sociology, sociological theories, history of sociology as a social science, images of the social and the social imaginary, and art and science. His publications include Bilder des Sozialen. Das Netzwerk in der soziologischen Theorie (Images of the Social. The Network in Sociological Theory, 2014), Analyzing the Processes of Heroization (Theories, Methods, Histories; Special Issue 5, 2019; co-editor), and contributions to sociological journals.

Sandro Segre was Professor of Sociology and Sociological Theory at the University of Genoa (Italy) until his retirement in 2017. He received his PhD from New York University in 1978. His books include Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Other Options (2020), Business Groups and Financial Markets: A Weberian Analysis (2018), Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories (2014); Introduction to Habermas (2012), Talcott Parsons: An Introduction (2012), and A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets: Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and Some Major Stock Exchanges (2008). He has also published many articles and book chapters, including in Structuralism, The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory (2021), Journal of Classical Sociology, Max Weber Studies, The American Sociologist, Human Studies, Luhmann's Reception of Parsons (2016), International Journal of Social Science Studies, Logos Journal, Sociologica, and Simmel Studies.

Alexander M. Stoner is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northern Michigan University. He previously taught at Salisbury University in Maryland. His primary areas of research expertise are environmental sociology, social theory, and political economy. His research has been published in journals such as Critical Sociology, Ecological Economics, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and the Journal of World-Systems Research. His book (coauthored with Andony Melathopoulos), Freedom in the Anthropocene: Twentieth-Century Helplessness in the Face of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), works through the writings of Lukács, Adorno, and Postone to argue that the idea of the Anthropocene is a historically specific reflection of helplessness, which only becomes possible at the close of the twentieth century. He is currently completing a book manuscript on climate change and American exceptionalism.