Daniel's research area is social and political thought broadly understood and his writing engages with a whole range of theorists from Hobbes to Luhmann via Simmel, Karl Löwith and Jürgen Habermas. He is interested in the relationships between natural law and social theory, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, the problem of universalism in modern normativity.
Daniel's current research programme centres on the idea of , which seeks to investigate the relationships between explicit conceptions of the social and implicit ideas of human nature in the social sciences. This is what he explores in his book that looks at the ways both contemporary sociologists (e.g. Margaret Archer, Talcott Parsons, Luc Boltanski) and philosophers (Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, Hans Joas) construe their arguments on the key anthropological features that make us human.
Daniel has also blogged on this project for and The .
He has given over 70 invited presentations, lectures or graduate courses in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain and the UK. He sits on the Editorial Board of Sociology and on the international boards of British Journal of Sociology and European Journal of Social Theory. Daniel is also a Social Science panel member of the Newton Initiative.
- Classical and Contemporary Social and Political Thought
- Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Global Modernity
- Philosophical Sociology and the Problem of Universalism
- Doing Theory Research
Books in English
- Daniel Chernilo (2017) . Cambridge University Press.
- Daniel Chernilo (2013) Cambridge University Press.
- Daniel Chernilo (2007)
Books in Spanish
- Daniel Chernilo (2011) La pretensión universalista de la teoría social, LOM-University of Chile.
- Daniel Chernilo (2010) Nacionalismo y cosmopolitismo: ensayos sociológicos, Diego Portales University Press
Selected Articles
- Daniel Chernilo (online first) ‘, European Journal of Social Theory,
- Rodrigo Cordero, Aldo Mascareño and Daniel Chernilo (online first) ‘On the Reflexivity of Crises: Lessons from Critical Theory and Systems Theory’, European Journal of Social Theory.
- Daniel Chernilo (2016). ‘Humanism and Sociology’, Journal of Classical Sociology 16 (3): 310–317.
- Daniel Chernilo (2015). ‘, Society 52 (4): 324-334
- Daniel Chernilo (2014) , British Journal of Sociology 65 (2): 338-357.
- Daniel Chernilo (2013) , Journal of Classical Sociology 13 (2): 254-273.
- Daniel Chernilo and Robert Fine (2013). ‘Introduction to the special issue on social theory and natural law’, Journal of Classical Sociology 13 (2): 191-196.
- Daniel Chernilo (2012) ‘Cosmopolitanism and the question of universalism’, in Delanty, G. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, Routledge.
- Daniel Chernilo (2011) ‘The critique of methodological nationalism: Theory and History’, Thesis Eleven 106 (1): 98-117.
- Daniel Chernilo (2010) ‘, History of the Human Sciences 23 (5): 91-112.
- Daniel Chernilo (2010) , Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23 (1): 87-106.
- Daniel Chernilo and Aldo Mascareño (2009) Soziale Systeme 15 (1): 72-96.
- Daniel Chernilo (2007) ‘A quest for universalism: Re-assessing the nature of classical social theory’s cosmopolitanism’, European Journal of Social Theory10 (1): 17-35.
- Daniel Chernilo (2006) European Journal of Social Theory 9 (1): 5-22.
- Daniel Chernilo (2002) ‘The , British Journal of Sociology 53 (3): 431-449.