Frédéric Vandenberghe is professor of sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he also directs the Research Lab Sociofilo. Hailing originally from Flanders in Belgium, he has worked at many universities in Europe, the United States, and Brazil. Working at the intersection of philosophy and sociology, Frederic is a social theorist. He did his PhD at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris on theories of reification. He has published many articles as well as various books in French, English and Portuguese. His collected papers are being published in Portuguese in four volumes. A Philosophical History of German sociology (2009, Routledge), What’s Critical about Critical Realism? (2014) and with Alain Caillé For A New Classic Sociology (2021) are available in English from Routledge. Together with Jean-François Côté, he edited a special issue of Thesis Eleven (2025, vol. 188, no. 1) on the theoretical logic of cultural sociology.
