Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance. A Sociology of our Relationship to the World was published in English translation in June 2019 with Polity Press. Following on from Rosa’s Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity (2013), that designated acceleration as the driving force of modernity, Resonance is an attempt to re-theorise the possibility of a ‘good life’ in an age that increasingly looks at human life in terms of manageable resource and that is dominated by experiences of subject alienation. Combining the traditions of Critical Theory with recent theories of alienation, Resonance is both a critique of contemporary life-world relations and develops a conceptual apparatus to enable us to re-think a utopian horizon of functioning relationships to the world.

German Studies at Warwick and Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CPRLA) mark the publication of Hartmut Rosa's Resonance with a lecture by Rosa and a one-day workshop with colleagues from Literary and Cultural Studies and Social Theory.

Speakers include: Anne Fuchs (Dublin), Elisabeth Herrmann (Warwick), Irina Hron (Vienna/Goteborg), Doro Wiese (Warwick), Charles Turner (Warwick, Helmut Schmitz (Warwick).

The workshop is generously funded by HRC, Warwick,

The Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CPRLA), and

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC)