Time and World

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.

“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. Frédéric 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

• Publisher’s NoteIn defence of inconsistency: A note on Hartmut Rosa in EnglishChristophe FrickerIntroduction: Moral maps, time structures and world-relationsFrédéric Vandenberghe1.   Four levels of self-interpretationA paradigm for interpretive social philosophy and political criticism2.   Social AccelerationEthical and political consequences of a desynchronized high-speed society3. Critique of temporalityAcceleration and alienation as key concepts of social critique4. Dynamic Stabilization, the Triple A Approach to the Good Life, and the Resonance Conception5. Is there anybody out there?Muted and resonant relationships to the world – ‘monomaniac’ Charles Taylor’s analytical focus6. ResonanceA key concept in social theory7. Why we live the way we liveOn the philosophy, sociology and politics of life as a practiceAcknowledgementsNotesIndex