Peter Herrmann (social philosopher)

Peter Herrmann is a social philosopher 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 works independently, but in close connection with the Italian research institute EURISPES.

Besides, 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 [1] (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 [2] , Ireland.

Until 2013 he had been director of the independent research institute ESOSC (European Social, Organisational and Science Consultancy) with headquarter in Aghabullogue, Ireland. After the move to Italy the work of the institute had been discontinued.

Herrmann was born into a bourgeois family and had been brought up in a protestant milieu, however without being embedded in a strictly religious environment. During his youth he had been politically engaged in different ways, distancing himself increasingly from his family background. At the end of his studies he married – from the marriage, which had been later divorced, he has one daughter, Franziska Herrmann, who lives in Germany.

Herrmann studied sociology (Bielefeld), political science (Leipzig) and economics (Hamburg). 1981 he obtained the diploma in sociology from the university in Bielefeld [3] and his doctorate in philosophy in 1992 from the university in Bremen [4] . 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.

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