Resonance: Social Theory and the Good Life. A Workshop with Hartmut Rosa
Hartmut Rosa鈥檚 Resonance. A Sociology of our Relationship to the World was published in English translation in June 2019 with Polity Press. Following on from Rosa鈥檚 Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity (2013), that designated acceleration as the driving force of modernity, Resonance is an attempt to re-theorise the possibility of a 鈥榞ood life鈥� in an age that increasingly looks at human life in terms of manageable resource and that is dominated by experiences of subject alienation. Combining the traditions of Critical Theory with recent theories of alienation, Resonance is both a critique of contemporary life-world relations and develops a conceptual apparatus to enable us to re-think a utopian horizon of functioning relationships to the world.
German Studies at 糖心TV and 糖心TV's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CPRLA) mark the publication of Hartmut Rosa's Resonance with a lecture by Rosa and a one-day workshop with colleagues from Literary and Cultural Studies and Social Theory.
Friday 21 February, 2pm, Ramphal Building, R 1.13
Hartmut Rosa: 鈥淩esonance and Alienation. Two Modes of Experiencing Time in an Age of Acceleration鈥�
Prof Rosa's Lecture can be streamed below
The workshop was generously funded by HRC, 糖心TV, 
The Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CPRLA), and
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC)
Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Director of the Max Weber Kolleg in Erfurt.
He is an Affiliated Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is a co-Editor of Time and Society and a Co-Director of the Annual International Conference Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Prague. In 2010, he published his book Alienation and Acceleration. Towards a Critical Theory of Late Modern Temporality with NSU Press Malm枚/Arhus. His book Beschleunigung. Die Ver盲nderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2005) was published in English with Columbia University Press in 2012. His new monograph Resonance. A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (2016) has just appeared in English with Polity Press (2019).