Hartmut Rosa
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Hartmut Rosa grew up in Grafenhausen in the Black Forest, where he spoke the local Alemannic dialect and played the organ in the Protestant parish which he occasionally still does. After graduating from high school (Hochrhein-Gymnasium Waldshut) in 1985 and completing his civilian service, he began studying political science, philosophy and German studies at the University of Freiburg in 1986, which he graduated with honours in 1993. In 1997, he graduated summa cum laude from the Humboldt University of Berlin and received his Ph.D. for his dissertation Identity and Cultural Practice. Political philosophy according to Charles Taylor. He was awarded the title of Dr. rer. Soc (doctor rerum socialium; Ph.D. in Social sciences).
He worked as a research assistant at the chair of Political Science III at the University of Mannheim (1996-1997) and as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Jena (1997-1999). There, he habilitated with his study Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity in the fields of Sociology and Political Science. During the summer semester of 2004, he represented the chair of Political Science/Political Theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen. During the winter semester 2004/2005 and the summer semester 2005, respectively, he held the interim chair for political science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Augsburg.[1] In 2005, Hartmut Rosa was appointed professor for General and Theoretical Sociology at the University of Jena.
In the winter of 1988/1989, he spent one semester with a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He visited the USA for study purposes several times, including as a research assistant at the Department of Government/Center of European Studies at Harvard University. He received the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his work as a visiting professor at the New School University in New York City in 2001/2002. He has been associated with the New School University as a visiting professor since 2002.
Forschung
Rosa’s research is focused on the areas of sociological diagnosis of time and the analysis of modernity, normative and empirical foundations of social criticism, subject and identity theories, sociology of time and theory of acceleration, as well as what he calls the “sociology of world relations”.[2] His books are received internationally and have been translated into 15 languages.[3]
Awards
- 2006: research award by State of Thuringia
- 2016: Tractatus Award
- 2018: Erich Fromm Prize
- 2018: Paul Watzlawick ring of honor (German: Paul-Watzlawick-Ehrenring)
- 2019: Honorary degree Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht
- 2019: Patronage of the UNESCO chair “Pratiques de la philosophie avec les enfants” as successor to Michel Serres at the Université de Nantes
- 2020: Werner Heisenberg medal by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2020: Rob Rhoads Global Citizenship Education Award from the University of California
- 2020: member of the Academia Europaea
- 2021: zusammen mit Klaus Dörre und Stephan Lessenich den Thüringer Forschungspreis in der Kategorie Grundlagenforschung