Hartmut Rosa

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.

Awards (selection)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2023
Member of the Academia Europaea 2020
Rob Rhoads Global Citizenship Education Award of the University of California, Los Angeles 2020
Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2020
Erich-Fromm-Preis 2018
Tractatus-Preis 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2025

Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2025

Situation and Constellation

The teacher who can’t give marks for encouragement, the doctor who treats screens instead of patients, the football referee whose judgment is squeezed out by VAR: imperceptibly, the character of...

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English world rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), France (La Découverte), Italy (LUISS), Netherlands (Boom), Denmark (Eksistensen), Sweden (Daidalos)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (CC Live)

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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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (NED Ediciones), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan), France (MSH), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul), Greece (Propobos)

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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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz Editores), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), France (La Découverte), Italy (Cortina), Denmark (Eksistensen), Japan (Shinsensha), Turkey (Albaraka)

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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Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People's Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Vozes), France (Découverte), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Boom), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Academy of Mobility Humanities / LPBook Publishing), Romania (Idea), Turkey (Albaraka), Greece (Lykabettus Editions / Michail Koulouras Sole Proprietorship)

English edition available through Aarhus UP

Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration

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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Sweden (Daidalos), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga)

Year of Publication: 2009

Sociology – Capitalism – Criticism

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...

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English world rights (Verso)

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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English world rights (Columbia UP), Spanish world rights (Herder México), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Arabic world rights (BookClub Publications), France (La Decouverte), Japan (Fukumura Shuppan), Bulgaria (Critique & Humanism)

DISCOVER

News

Hartmut Rosa receives Leibniz Prize 2023

Hartmut Rosa is one of ten scientists to receive the prize in 2023.