About me

 

Filipe Carreira da Silva writes and lectures on social and political theory. A sociologist by training, he has mainly worked on classical sociological theories and critical theory. More recently he has been interested in exploring a “multiple modernities” approach to the political and social-scientific forms associated with the Western variant of modernity – nation-states and scientific disciplines.

He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2003, where he subsequently became a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College (2003-2006). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Chicago and the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. He has written on Jürgen Habermas’s concept of public sphere, the civic republican political tradition, G.H. Mead’s social and political thinking, and twentieth-century social theory. His work has been translated into Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.