Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa (b. 1965) is a German sociologist and political scientist best known for his theories of social acceleration and resonance. In his seminal work Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity, he argued that technological progress, social change, and the pace of everyday life create a paradoxical shortage of time, generating alienation and disorientation. Rosa describes modernity as a history of ever-increasing temporal pressures in which individuals can no longer exhaust the possibilities available within a lifetime. As an alternative to alienation, he developed resonance theory, a “sociology of world relations” that emphasizes transformative encounters and reciprocal attunement between humans and their world. Rosa positions resonance not as a commodity or controllable state, but as a fragile condition that societies can nurture by creating spaces and rhythms that allow for openness and mutual transformation. His work extends the tradition of critical theory, drawing from Charles Taylor and Erich Fromm, while contributing to contemporary debates on democracy, education, ecology, and social justice.

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