Late Modernity in Crisis – Why We Need a Theory of Society

Andreas Reckwitz is Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at Humboldt University, Berlin 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.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Andreas Reckwitz The Theory of Society as a Tool 1. Doing Theory 2. Practice theory as Social Theory 3. The Practice of Modernity 4. The Theory of Society at Work: From Bourgeois and Industrial Modernity to Late Modernity 5. Theory as Critical Analytics 6. Coda: The Experimentalism of Theory Part II Hartmut Rosa Best Account: Outlining a Systematic Theory of Modern Society 1. What Is a Theory of Society and What Can It Do? 2. Dynamic Stabilization and the Expansion of Our Share of the World: An Analysis of the Modern Social Formation 3. Desynchronization and Alienation: A Diagnosis and Critique of Modernity 4. Adaptive Stabilization and Resonance: A Therapeutic and Transgressive Outline of an Alternative Horizon Part III Modernity and Critique: A Conversation with Martin Bauer Notes