
Time and World
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-1-5095-6627-3 (ISBN)
Description
Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not only presents a critical diagnosis of our times but also searches for innovative solutions. This new collection of Rosa's essays provides an overview of his work and explores key topics and concepts in depth. Among the subjects discussed are Charles Taylor's account of alienation, self-interpretation and social critique; the theory of acceleration and the challenges for identity formation and democratic politics in the high-speed society; the theory of resonance and its relation to alienation and uncontrollability; and the relation between social theory and moral philosophy. Among other things, this volume highlights the influence of Taylor's social philosophy on Rosa's work and brings out the architecture of Rosa's social theory, in particular the opposition between the concepts of resonance and alienation.
This book by one of the most creative and influential social theorists writing today will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary social theory, critical theory and the sociology of late modernity.
This book by one of the most creative and influential social theorists writing today will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary social theory, critical theory and the sociology of late modernity.
Reviews / Votes
"The foremost German social theorist of his generation, Hartmut Rosa is increasingly famous in translation but his work is not well integrated into either English-language sociology or interdisciplinary social theory. This book will help. It includes key essays that show not only the development of Rosa's thought but also enduring orientations that clarify it. Frederic Vandenberghe's introduction is helpful. Students who want to grasp the arguments, not just the one-word labels, of Rosa's big books like Social Acceleration and Resonance, would do well to start here."Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University and Princeton University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-6627-3 (9781509566273)
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Persons
Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
Author
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany
Translation
Content
Publisher's Note
In defence of inconsistency: A note on Hartmut Rosa in English
Christophe Fricker
Introduction: Moral maps, time structures and world-relations
Frederic Vandenberghe
1. Four levels of self-interpretation
A paradigm for interpretive social philosophy and political criticism
2. Social Acceleration
Ethical and political consequences of a desynchronized high-speed society
3. Critique of temporality
Acceleration and alienation as key concepts of social critique
4. Dynamic Stabilization, the Triple A Approach to the Good Life, and the Resonance Conception
5. Is there anybody out there?
Muted and resonant relationships to the world - 'monomaniac' Charles Taylor's analytical focus
6. Resonance
A key concept in social theory
7. Why we live the way we live
On the philosophy, sociology and politics of life as a practice
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
In defence of inconsistency: A note on Hartmut Rosa in English
Christophe Fricker
Introduction: Moral maps, time structures and world-relations
Frederic Vandenberghe
1. Four levels of self-interpretation
A paradigm for interpretive social philosophy and political criticism
2. Social Acceleration
Ethical and political consequences of a desynchronized high-speed society
3. Critique of temporality
Acceleration and alienation as key concepts of social critique
4. Dynamic Stabilization, the Triple A Approach to the Good Life, and the Resonance Conception
5. Is there anybody out there?
Muted and resonant relationships to the world - 'monomaniac' Charles Taylor's analytical focus
6. Resonance
A key concept in social theory
7. Why we live the way we live
On the philosophy, sociology and politics of life as a practice
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index