Björn Wittrock's work aims to grasp the nature of key transformative processes in the contemporary era. Already in the article “Modernity: One, None or Many in Daedalus (Winter 2000), he wrote what might perhaps be characterised as a synopsis of such an analysis. One part of Bjorn Wittrock's current work consists in confronting his own way of conceptualising this problematique with main currents of contemporary social theory. In particular, while his research stay, he will engage with recent and highly influential forms legal and of, what might be termed, neo-naturalistic forms of theorizing.
As for legal theory, he will focus on Martti Koskennieimi’s magnum opus, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300–1870 (Cambridge: CUP, 2021).
As for neo-naturalistic reasoning, he will highlight two powerful currents of contemporary theorizing, namely first that from within the cognitive sciences – working on Peter Gardenfors or Asifa Masjid' work, and secondly within the analysis of global human-originated change. In this second field, he shall focus on the oeuvre in the last decade and a half of Dipesh Chakrabarty on anthropocene time.

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