Acknowledgments xii
In Lieu of a Foreword: Sociology and the Story of Anna and Hannah 1
I Introduction 17
PART ONE: THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD
II Bodily Relationships to the world 47
III Appropriating World and Experiencing World 83
IV Emotional, Evaluative, abd Cognitive Relationships to the World 110
V Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World 145
PART TWO: SPHERES AND AXES OF RESONANCE
VI Introduction: Spheres of Resonance, Recognition, and the Axes of Our Relationship to the World 195
VII Horizontal Axes of Resonance 202
VIII Diagonal Axes of Resonance 226
IX Vertical Axes of Resonance 258
PART THREE: FEAR OF THE MUTING OF THE WORLD: A RECONSTRUCTION OF MODERNITY IN TERMS OF RESONANCE THEORY
X Modernity as the History of Catastrophe of Resonance 307
XI Modernity as the History of Increasing Sensitivity to Resonance 357
XII Deserts and Oases of Life: Modern Everyday Practices in Terms of Resonance Theory 367
PART FOUR: A CRITICAL THEORY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD
XIII Social Conditions of Successful and Unsuccessful Relationships to the World 381
XIV Dynamic Stabilization: The Escalatory Logic of Modernity and Its Consequences 404
XV Late Modern Crises of Resonance and the Contours of a Post-Growth Society 425
In Lieu of an Afterword: Defending Resonance Theory against Its Critice -- and Optimism agaibst Skeptics 444
Notes 460
References 504
Index 529
Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany.
"If in the rush to increase production and wealth, we ever pause to
consider what a good life would be like, and whether we’re missing
something essential, Rosa’s book Resonance would be a good place to
start. This remarkable work combines systematic theory with a host
of valuable insights into human fulfillments that we too easily
forgo."
—Charles Taylor, McGill University "Affirmation of ordinary life is
a key feature of modernity, but alienation from the world is a
persistent experience of modern men and women. In Resonance, Rosa
offers sketches of an alternative relation to the world and thereby
a foundation for a sociology of the good life. A very important
text and highly recommended."
—Miroslav Volf, Yale University "Hartmut Rosa is one of the leading
and most distinctive voices in contemporary social theory. In
Resonance he continues the important analysis of the very nature of
modernity laid out in Social Acceleration, and offers a new
approach to basic human relationships, both to other people and to
the world. This is a truly important book."
—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University
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