Massimo Pendenza è Professore di Sociologia presso l’Università di Salerno, dove dirige il Centro di Studi Europei. Le sue più recenti pubblicazioni includono ‘Societal Cosmopolitanism in the Drift from Universalism towards Particularism’ (Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 18, 2017), ‘Intimations of methodological nationalism in classical sociology?’ (European Journal of Social Theory, 19, 2016), ‘Cosmopolitan nuances in classical sociology: Reshaping conceptual frameworks’ (Journal of Classical Sociology, 15, 2015), e i volumi Durkheim cosmopolita (a cura, con D. Inglis, Perugia, 2015) e Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism (ed., Leiden|Boston, 2014).