Sociology – Capitalism – Criticism
A Debate
With the cooperation of Thomas Barth
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Sociology – Capitalism – Criticism / Soziologie - Kapitalismus - Kritik
A Debate
With the cooperation of Thomas Barth
It was once one of the central tasks of sociology to clarify to modern society the social assumptions and consequences of its proneness to crisis. The authors of this collection are committed to this oft-neglected objective and focus on the potential of sociological analyses to make a Zeitdiagnose – a diagnosis of the present.
A Zeitdiagnostisch-based social criticism, according to one of their theories, is one of the central responsibilities of sociology. A second...
A Zeitdiagnostisch-based social criticism, according to one of their theories, is one of the central responsibilities of sociology. A second...
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It was once one of the central tasks of sociology to clarify to modern society the social assumptions and consequences of its proneness to crisis. The authors of this collection are committed to this oft-neglected objective and focus on the potential of sociological analyses to make a Zeitdiagnose – a diagnosis of the present.
A Zeitdiagnostisch-based social criticism, according to one of their theories, is one of the central responsibilities of sociology. A second theory states that all contemporary social criticism must also necessarily be criticism of capitalism. Based on three different, but complementary, perspectives as to actual processes of land appropriation, activation, and acceleration, a sociological criticism of contemporary society unfolds, while simultaneously revealing starting points for political action.
»The sociology professors from Jena Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich and Hartmut Rosa are of the belief that over the last few years sociology has neglected its critical-progressive role. They have thus stepped up to clarify the common discontent according to a social-theoretical model.« Robin Celikates, Frankfurter Rundschau
»The sociology professors from Jena Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich and Hartmut Rosa are of the belief that over the last few years sociology has neglected its critical-progressive role. They have thus stepped up to clarify the common discontent according to a social-theoretical model.« Robin Celikates, Frankfurter Rundschau
2009, 327 pages
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Hartmut Rosa
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Hartmut Rosa, born in 1965, is professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies in Erfurt. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Tractatus Prize, the Erich Fromm Prize and the Leibniz Prize.
Hartmut Rosa
Author
Hartmut Rosa, born in 1965, is professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Max Weber...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2021
Late Modernity in Crisis
In times of profound social upheavals and manifest crises, there is a need for fundamental analyses that take a look at contemporary society as a whole, examine its structural features and...
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Year of Publication: 2016
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2016
Resonance
If acceleration is the problem, then perhaps resonance is the solution. This, in the briefest possible terms, is the central thesis of Hartmut Rosa’s latest book, which can be seen as the...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2013
Acceleration and Alienation
»This book is a short essay on modern life. It strives to ask the ›right‹ sorts of questions that would allow social philosophy and sociology to speak to the everyday reality...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2012
Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration
After Hartmut Rosa’s widely noted and successful Beschleunigung. Die Veränderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne, his new work analyzes from various perspectives how the acceleration of ...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2005
Acceleration
Acceleration is a key term of modernity and »deceleration« a fashionable contemporary term. Both form part of a social development that has had a lasting impact on the last...
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