Peter Herrmann (social philosopher)
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Peter Herrmann is a social philosopher, sociologist and academic of German origin. Between 1995 and 2013 he worked in Ireland where he occupied at the end the position of a senior research fellow at University College Cork, School of Applied Social Studies. 2013 he moved to Rome, Italy, where he worked independently, but in close connection with the Italian research institute EURISPES. From 2015 to 2017 he worked as Professor for Economics at Bangor College of Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, PRC, and as Senior Foreign Expert. School of Public Affairs, Dept. of Social Security and Risk Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R.China. In September 2017 he commenced a one-year research position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Bavaria, from where he changed in October 2018 to the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz in Poland. Since October 2019 he is research fellow at the Human Rights Centre. Law School at Central South University, Changsha, PRC.
Additionally, he is associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland [www.uef.fi], and he holds a permanent visiting professorship as honorary associate professor at the Corvinus University (Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations, Institute of World Economy) in Budapest, Hungary. Since November 2013 he is also visiting scholar at the Department of Chinese Studies at NUI Maynooth , Ireland.
Until 2013 he had been director of the independent research institute ESOSC (European Social, Organisational and Science Consultancy) with its headquarters in Aghabullogue, Ireland.[citation needed] After Herrmann moved to Italy, the work of the institute was discontinued.[citation needed]
Herrmann was born into a bourgeois family[citation needed] and had been brought up in a Protestant milieu,[clarification needed] though without being embedded in a strictly religious environment.[citation needed] During his youth he had been politically engaged in different ways,[vague] distancing himself increasingly from his family background.[citation needed] At the end of his studies he married. He has one daughter who lives in Germany. He later divorced.[citation needed]
Academic career
Herrmann studied sociology (Bielefeld), political science (Leipzig) and economics (Hamburg). 1981 he obtained the diploma in sociology from the university in Bielefeld and his doctorate in philosophy in 1992 from the university in Bremen Archived 2020-09-05 at the Wayback Machine . At the institute for local social policy and non-profit organisations in Bremen, Herrmann analysed in close cooperation with Rudolph Bauer and Jürgen Blandow the politics and policies of non-governmental organisations. He focused on the meaning of the process of European integration for national social policy and the impact on the third sector.
