Positions and Education
 

2023: Visiting Professor. University of Pisa, Department of Political Science.
 

2022 – current: Lecturer. University of Passau, Chair of Political Science with a Focus on Comparative Government. 
 

2022 – current: External Staff Member. Goethe University of Frankfurt.
 

2018 – current: Affiliate Professor. University of São Paulo, Institute of Psychology.
 

2022: Visiting Scholar. SUNY Buffalo State University, Department of History and Social Sciences Education.
 

2019 – 2022: Lecturer and Research Assistant. Goethe University of Frankfurt, Chair of Practical Philosophy with a Focus on Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2019: Junior Fellow. University of Erfurt, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies.

2017 – 2018: Visiting Scholar. University Paris Nanterre.
 

2016 – 2018: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Erfurt, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies.
 

2015 – 2016: Researcher. Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA).
 

2011 – 2013: Researcher. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

2010 – 2014: PhD in Sociology. University of São Paulo. 
 

2006 – 2009: MA (MPhil) in Sociology. University of São Paulo.
 

2001 – 2006: BA in Social Sciences. University of São Paulo.

 

Scientific Appointments

2020 – current: President. Georg Simmel Gesellschaft.
 

2023 – current: President. Research Committee 35 – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis. International Sociological Association (ISA).
 

2019 – current: Board Member. Research Network 29 – Social Theory. European Sociological Association (ESA).
 

2016 – 2023: Secretary, Treasurer & Newsletter Editor. Research Committee 35 – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne.
 

2023: Program Coordinator. Research Committee 35 – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne.
 

2021: Program Coordinator. Research Committee 35 – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis. IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre (virtual).
 

2018: Program Coordinator. Research Committee 35 – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto.

Books

Bueno, A.; Teixeira, M.; Strecker, D. (eds.). 2022. De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research. New York: Routledge.

Rosa, H.; Henning, C.; Bueno, A. (eds.). 2021. Critical Theory and New Materialisms. London: Routledge.

Bueno, A (ed.). 2013. O conflito da cultura moderna e outros escritos: Georg Simmel. Edition, foreword, revision of translation and afterword by Arthur Bueno. São Paulo: Senac.

Articles and Review Essays

Bueno, A. 2024 (forth.). The End (and Persistence) of Subjectivity: Lukács with Adorno, Adorno with Lukács. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.


Bueno, A. 2023. Flirting with Things: Simmel on Coquetry and Money. Simmel Studies 27 (1): 79-103.

Bueno, A. 2021. A crise dentro da crise: aceleração e pandemia. Pléyade 27: 23-33.

Bueno, A. 2021. What Comes After Depression? The Crisis of Neoliberal Subjectivity and the New Authoritarian Wave in Brazil. Krisis 41(1): 45-64.

Bueno, A. 2020. ¿Qué viene después de la depresión? Ocho tesis sobre la crisis de la subjetividad neoliberal y sus implicancias políticas. Cuadernos de Teoría Social 6(11): 95-120.

Bueno, A. 2020. A dupla verdade do capital: Bourdieu às voltas com o neoliberalismo. Revista Rosa 3.  

Bueno, A. 2020. El meteorito: crisis sanitaria y políticas de la contingencia. Cuadernos de Teoría Social 6(11): 221-230. 

Bueno, A. 2019. Do singular ao comum? Simmel e as tensões da individualidade moderna. Inter-Legere 2(24): 80-116.

Bueno, A. 2018. Rationality – Cultivation – Vitality: Simmel on the Pathologies of Modern Culture. Dissonância: Critical Theory Journal 2(2): 96-135.

Bueno, A.; Teixeira, M. 2017. Spectres of Reification: Weber and Simmel on History and Class Consciousness. Journal of Classical Sociology 17(2): 101-115.

Bueno, A. 2017. The Psychic Life of Freedom: Social Pathology and its Symptoms. Philosophy & Society 28(3): 475-491.

Bueno, A. 2017. Políticas da identidade e da desidentificação. Ideias 8(1): 309-319.

Bueno, A. 2017. A sobrevida do capital. Perspectivas: Revista de Ciências Sociais 49: 153-158. 

Bueno, A. 2011. Filosofia negativa? Bourdieu e os fundamentos da razão. Tempo Social 23(1): 179-197. 

Book chapters and contributions to edited volumes  

Bueno, A. 2023. Ein gemeinsames Leben? Simmel und der ‚neue Individualismus’. In M.V. Galfione and A. Knopf (eds.). Abschied vom Individuum? Romantische Konzeptionen von Individualität und ihre Kritik. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh. 91-116. 

Bueno, A. 2022. The Standpoint of the Proletariat Today. In A. Bueno, M. Teixeira, D. Strecker (eds.). De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research. New York: Routledge. 161-177.

Bueno, A.; Teixeira, M.; Strecker, D. 2022. The Peripheral Turn. In A. Bueno; M. Teixeira; D. Strecker (eds.). De-Centering Global Social Theory and Research: The Peripheral Turn in Sociology. New York: 

Bueno, A. 2021. Pathology and Vitality: On the Crisis of Modern Life-Forms. In H. Rosa; C. Henning; A. Bueno (eds.). Critical Theory and New Materialisms. London: Routledge, 123-139.

Rosa, H.; Henning, C.; Bueno, A. 2021. Critical Theory and New Materialisms – Fit, Strain or Contradiction? In H. Rosa; C. Henning; A. Bueno (eds.). Critical Theory and New Materialisms. London: Routledge, 1-16.

Bueno, A. 2020. The Post-Depressive Constellation: From Political Effervescence to the Rise of Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Brazil. In B. Bianchi, J. Chaloub, P. Rangel, F. Wolf (eds.). Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression. New York: Routledge, 114-130.

Bueno, A. 2020. Economic Pathologies of Life. In G. Fitzi (ed.). International Handbook of Simmel Studies. London: Routledge, 336-349.

Bueno, A. 2020. Simmel and the Forms of In-dividuality. In M. Fuchs et al. (eds.). Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter, 409-436.

Bueno, A.; Casteigt, J.; Linkenbach, A.; Vinzent, M. 2020. Afterword: Dividual Socialities. In M. Fuchs et al. (eds.). Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter, 437-439.

Svartman, B.; Bueno, A. 2016. Economia monetária, economia psíquica: Simmel, Freud e o esquematismo da subjetividade moderna. In M. Checchia (ed.). Combate à vontade de potência: ensaios sobre psicanálise e dominação. Sao Paulo: Annablume, 153-190.

Bueno, A. 2015. Uma torcida que samba: o Grêmio Recreativo Gaviões da Fiel. In B. de Hollanda, P. Labriola (eds.). Os Gaviões da Fiel: Ensaios e etnografias de uma torcida organizada de futebol. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 214-251.

Bueno, A. 2013. Simmel e os paradoxos da cultura moderna. In A. Bueno (ed.). O conflito da cultura moderna e outros escritos. Georg Simmel. São Paulo: Editora Senac, 145-182.

Bueno, A.; Gomes, F.  2010. Max Weber. In V. Barreto (ed.). Dicionário de Filosofia Política. São Leopoldo: Unisinos.

Silva, V. G.; Baptista, R.; Azevedo, C.; Bueno, A. 2004. Madrinha Eunice e Geraldo Filme: memórias do carnaval e do samba paulistas. In V. G. da Silva (ed.). Artes do Corpo. São Paulo: Selo Negro, 123-187.

Edited special issues 

Carleheden M.; Bueno, A. 2023. Revitalizing Social Theory. Global Dialogue 13(2).

Bueno, A.; Gurisch, S. (eds.). Forthcoming in 2024. Self-Transformative Life? Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

Bueno, A. (ed.). 2021. Aceleración y modernidad. Pléyade 27. (trilingual issue: Spanish, English, and Portuguese)

Bueno, A.; Torres, F. (eds.). 2020. Tiempos críticos: crisis y políticas de la aceleración. Cuadernos de Teoría Social 6(11).

Freitas, C.; Bueno, A. (eds.). 2019. Teoria social: os clássicos nos contemporâneos. Inter-Legere 2(24).

Bueno, A.; Teixeira, M. (eds.). 2019. The Politics of Social Suffering. Digithum: A Relational Perspective on Culture and Society 23. 

Teixeira, M.; Bueno, A. (eds.). 2018. Marx & Simmel. Dissonância: Critical Theory Journal 3(1).

Bueno, A. (ed.). 2017. Economia e crítica. Perspectivas: Revista de Ciências Sociais 48.

Bueno, A.; Leite, E.; Souza, E. (eds.). 2017. Simmel e as formas de vida. Novos Rumos Sociológicos 5(7).

Introductions and Prefaces

Carleheden, M.; Bueno, A. 2023. The Current State of Social Theory. Global Dialogue 13(2).

BUENO, A. 2021. Aceleración y modernidad: estructuras temporales, cambio social y crítica. Introducción. Pléyade 27: 20-23.

Bueno, A.; Torres, F. 2020. Tiempos críticos: crisis y políticas de la aceleración. Cuadernos de Teoría Social 6(11): 5-10.

Bueno, A.; Torres, F. 2020. Covid-19: tiempos críticos en tiempos de pandemia. Cuadernos de Teoría Social 6 (11): 154-201.

Freitas, C.; Bueno, A. 2019. Ainda há clássicos que são contemporâneos. Inter-Legere 2(24): 9-15.

Bueno, A.; Teixeira, M. 2019. The Politics of Social Suffering: Introduction to the Special Section. Digithum: A Relational Perspective on Culture and Society 23: 1-6. 

Teixeira, M.; Bueno, A. 2018. Marx & Simmel: 1818 – 1918 – 2018. Dissonância: Critical Theory Journal 3(1): 6-20.

Bueno, A. (ed.). 2017. Crises e críticas da economia capitalista. Perspectivas: Revista de Ciências Sociais 48: 9-16.

Bueno, A.; Leite, E.; Souza, E. 2017. Simmel e as formas de vida. Novos Rumos Sociológicos 5(7): 3-9.

Bueno, A. 2013. Apresentação. In A. Bueno (ed.), O conflito da cultura moderna e outros escritos: Georg Simmel. São Paulo: Senac.

Texts for Magazines 

Bueno, A. 2023. Theory and (the End of) Practice. Global Dialogue: Magazine of the International Sociological Association 13(2).

Bueno, A. 2021. After Depression: The Post-Neoliberal Subject. Global Dialogue: Magazine of the International Sociological Association 11(2): 30-32.

Bueno, A. 2015. Vergonha a crédito. Trip 244: 68. 

Interviews

Bueno, A.; Klaver, J. 2023. Legitimation von Wahlen und Populismus. Politaxi (podcast).

Rech, P.; Cyfer, I.; Silva, F.; Marin, I.; Bueno, A. 2022. Teoria Crítica e Psicanálise: Entrevista com Amy Allen. Eleuthería 7(13): 323-341. 

Bueno, A. 2021. Aceleración, modernidad y ciencias sociales. Entrevista con Arthur Bueno. Pléyade 27: https://www.revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/EntrevistaP27

Bueno, A.; Bressiani, N.; Silva, F.; Teixeira, M.; Cyfer, I.; Marin, I. 2017. Para uma crítica das crises do capitalismo: entrevista com Nancy Fraser. Perspectivas: Revista de Ciências Sociais 48, 161-185.

Bueno, A. 2011. Diálogo com Ulrich Beck. In U. Beck, Sociedade de risco: rumo a uma outra modernidade. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 361-376.

Miceli, S., Pontes, H., Pinheiro, F., Bueno, A., Fernandes, D., Arribas, C. 2007. Entrevista com Aaron Cicourel. Tempo Social 19 (1), 131-168.

• Social Theory and Political Theory (Classical and Contemporary)

• Critical Theory

• Social Suffering (incl. intersections with Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology)

• New Materialisms and Biopolitics

• Global Sociology (incl. intersections with Post- and De-Colonial Theory)