Instead, it is left with the task of merely taming its effects.Ĭompared with the realm of economics, where financial markets have been exposed to drastic acceleration, politics appear to be more static - a flaw that was criticized incessantly by opinion makers at the height of neo-liberalism.īecause society moves at an ever faster pace, political decisions have to be made more quickly too. Politics can thus hardly set the pace for change as society expects. The process of forming political will becomes more tedious as societal groups grow more heterogeneous. The phenomenon has serious implications for democratic societies, Rosa writes. In Germany, it has contributed to the oft-cited idea of a "new Biedermeier" era under Angela Merkel - which alludes to a period in the first half of the 19th century that was marked by a turn toward the domestic sphere and away from political matters. Or, it shows itself in the desire to recover after rapid societal, technological and economic changes. At other times it is dogmatic, as it can be in parts of the United States. Sometimes it reveals itself in the kind of violence that has shaken the Islamic world. The result is a flight into conservatism, which manifests itself in different ways around the world. To add to Rosa's claim, it could be said that many modern conflicts stem from the fact that some people are simply no longer able to understand the world in all its complexity. Rosa's book shows that this phenomenon deserves at least as much attention as the buzzword "globalization," especially because the continuous acceleration of social change also leads to changes in values, lifestyles and relationships. But Rosa's criticism is not directed against capitalist production conditions (unlike earlier critics of industrial modernity, Rosa's focus is not on labor), but against acceleration as a resulting meta-phenomenon. His definition of social change utilizes a term that originally stems from Marxism: alienation. SPIEGEL Media Menü SPIEGEL Media aufklappen.Alle Magazine Menü Alle Magazine aufklappen.SPIEGEL-Heft Menü SPIEGEL-Heft aufklappen.Gutscheine Anzeige Menü Gutscheine aufklappen.Marktplatz Anzeige Menü Marktplatz aufklappen.Partner-Inhalte Anzeige Menü Partner-Inhalte aufklappen.Wissenschaft Menü Wissenschaft aufklappen.Keywords: Resonance, Alienation, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Hartmut Rosa. Finally (3), I will analyze his claim that the logic of “social acceleration” and the principle of “dynamic stabilization” typical of (late-)modern societies systematically produce alienated relationships to the world. Second (2), I will show the phenomenological nature of his approach and examine the conceptual opposition on which it rests, namely, that between “resonance” and “alienation”. First (1) I will sketch out his account of the tasks and features of a contemporary Critical Theory of Society in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. In order to do so, I will proceed in three steps. In this paper, I intend to systematically reconstruct the main lines of Hartmut Rosa’s novel version of Critical Theory, namely, the “Sociology of the Relationships to the World”. Palabras clave: Resonancia, Alienación, Fenomenología, Teoría Crítica, Hartmut Rosa.Ī Phenomenological Critical Theory? Resonance, Alienation, and Critique of Society in Hartmut Rosa's Thought Finalmente (3), analizo la tesis según la cual la lógica (tardo)moderna de la aceleración social produce sistemáticamente relaciones alienadas con el mundo. En segundo término (2), doy cuenta del carácter fenomenológico de su abordaje y examino la oposición conceptual sobre la que el mismo se basa, a saber, aquella entre resonancia y alienación. En primer lugar (1), expongo el modo en que el autor concibe las tareas contemporáneas de una Teoría Crítica de la Sociedad en la tradición de la Escuela de Frankfurt. En este artículo me propongo reconstruir sistemáticamente los lineamientos principales de la novedosa teoría crítica desarrollada por Hartmut Rosa: la sociología de las relaciones con el mundo.
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