Professor Patrick Baert

Research Groups and Affiliations

Research Committee on Social Theory of the International Sociological Association. ‘The Sociology of Intellectuals’, Cambridge

Grants and Projects

• Baert, P. (PI) Cooperation – socioeconomic sciences and humanities. EU Collaborative Project Programme, UK team (2013-16). €300,000
• Baert, P. (PI) The rise of French existentialism, 1944– 1947: a sociological explanation. Leverhulme Fellowship (2012-2013): £40,267
• Baert, P. (PI) The rise of French existentialism, 1944–1947: a sociological explanation. British Academy Small Grant (2011-13): £6,750

Publications

Books (since 2010)

• Sapiro, G., M. Santoro and P. Baert (eds.) (2020) Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities; The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theories. London: Palgrave.
• Booth, J. and P.Baert (2018) The Dark Side of Podemos? Carl Schmitt’s Shadow in Progressive Populism. London: Routledge.
• Susen, S. and P. Baert (2017) The Sociology of Intellectuals; After ‘The Existentialist Moment’. London: Palgrave.
• Baert, P. (2015) The Existentialist Moment; Sartre’s Rise as a Public Intellectual. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Choice outstanding academic title for 2015)
• Morgan, M. and P. Baert (2015) Conflict in the Academy; A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals. London: Palgrave (Pivot series).
• Rubio Dominguez, F. and P. Baert (eds.) (2012a) The Politics of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
• Baert, P. and F. Carreira da Silva (2010) Social Theory in the 20th Century and Beyond. Cambridge: Polity Press. (2nd edition) (translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish)
• Baert, P., S. Koniordos, G. Procacci and C. Ruzza (eds.) (2010) Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society.  London: Routledge.

Journal Articles (since 2016)

• Baert, P. (2025). Universities in the crossfire: A reply to Sari Hanafi. Dialogues in Sociology, 1(2), 176-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768667251359975
• Baert, P., Dorschel, R., Hall, M., Higgins, I., McPherson, E., & Philip, S. (2025). Dialogues Towards Sociologies of Generative AI. Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439325137035
• Al Azmeh, Z. and P. Baert (2024) ‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements. Theory and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-023-09540-5
• Baert, P. (2022) The theory of everything: A sympathetic critique of Andreas Reckwitz’s Society of Singularities. Analyse & Kritik 44 (2), pp. 323-329.
• Baert, P, Morgan, M. and R. Ushiyama (2022) Existence theory: Outline for a theory of social behavior. Journal of Classical Sociology 21 (2), pp. 77-29.
• Bar-El, E. and P. Baert (2021) ‘The Fool’ Revisited: The Making of Žižek as Sacrificial Public Intellectual. Cultural Sociology 1 (4), pp. 539-557.
• Yıldız, Y.Y. and P. Baert (2021) Confessions without guilt: Public confessions of state violence in Turkey. Theory and Society 50 (1), pp. 125-149. 
• Gonzales Hernando, M. and P. Baert (2020) Collectives of intellectuals: Their cohesiveness, accountability, and who can speak on their behalf. The Sociological Review 68(5) pp. 1143-1158. 
• Baert, P. and Morgan, M. (2018) A performative framework for the study of intellectuals. European Journal of Social Theory 21(3), pp. 322-329.
• Morgan, M. and P.Baert (2018) Acting out Ideas: Performative citizenship within the Black Consciousness Movement.  In: American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6 (3), pp. 455-498.
• Ushiyama R. and P. Baert (2016) Cultural trauma, counter-narratives and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum Affair. In:  Theory and Society 45 (6), pp. 471-499. 

Book Chapters (since 2016)

• Al Azmeh, Z., Baert, P. (2025). Stop the Performance! Cancel Culture in the Contemporary Academy. In: Pérez-Jara, J., Rudas, N. (eds) Dramatic Intellectuals. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-98.
• Baert, P., Morgan, M. and Ushiyama, R. (2024) Existence theory and contemporary culture. In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism, eds. K. Aho et al. London: Routledge, pp. 71-80.
• Baert, P. and Z. Al Azmeh (2022) Intellectuals. Oxford Biographies. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756384-0261
• Morgan, M., and P. Baert (2020) A case study of the reception of ‘structuralism’ in English Studies in the United Kingdom. In: Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities; The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theories. Eds. Saprio, G., Santoro, M., and P. Baert. London: Palgrave, pp. 83-102.
• Sapiro, G., Santoro, M. and P.Baert (2020) Introduction. In: Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities; The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theories. Eds. Saprio, G., Santoro, M., and P. Baert. London: Palgrave, pp. 1-27.
• Baert, P. (2019) Rom Harré, positioning theory and the social sciences: a personal and sympathetic portrait. In: The Second Cognitive Revolution; A Tribute to Rom Harré, ed. B. A. Christensen. London: Springer, pp. 27-34.
• Baert, P. (2018) Reflections on the use of positioning theory in the sociology of intellectuals. In: Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory, eds. A. Buch and T. Schatzki. London: Routledge, pp. 225-235.
• Baert, P. (2017) Essay on taboo. In: The Sweetest Taboo, F. Janssens. Tielt: Lannoo.
• Baert, P. (2016) The philosopher as public intellectual. In: Public Intellectualism in Comparative Context, ed. M. Desch, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 196-218.