Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa got his PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1997. He is director of the MaxWeber-Center/Institute for advanced study at Erfurt University and Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He has been a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York from 2001-2006 and at the FMSH/EHESS in Paris. In addition, he holds a honorary doctorate from the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht.

He is a co-director of the annual international “Philosophy and the Social Sciences”-conference in Prague and for many years served as vice-president/secretary-general for the Research Committee 35 of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

From 2008-2018, he co-edited the international journal Time&Society. He received numerous awards, among them the Tractatus Award and the Paul Watzlawick Ehrenring (Austria), the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis and the Erich Fromm Preis (Germany) or the Annual Rob Rhoads Global Citizenship Education Award 2020 (UCLA). In 2021, he was selected as a distinguished senior scientist at the JQ Young Academy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He also served as patron of La Nuit des Idées 2021 which was organized by the Institut Francais, Paris and held simultaneously in 42 countries.

His papers and books have been translated into more than twenty five languages. Among his most important publications are Alienation and Acceleration (2007), Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2013), Resonance. A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (Polity Press, 2019) and The Uncontrollability of the World (Polity Press 2020).