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time as possible. This results in a logic of increase, which requires a constant continuation of improvement and multiplication of resources. This is accompanied by an increasing pressure to accelerate: in order to maintain the status quo within a modern society, societies must continually increase the number of services, innovations and material production opportunities. Rosa sees this mode of dynamic stabilization as the defining characteristic of modernity. While pre-modern societies transform themselves adaptively, i.e. in response to changed conditions, modern society is virtually defined by its compulsion for continuous economic, social and technological transformation.
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predominantly silent, instrumental. Resonance in this sense is therefore essentially characterized by the fact that it cannot be produced systematically and intentionally, but is ultimately unavailable. Nevertheless, Rosa calls for institutional reforms which are geared towards resonance and avoid the kinds of extractive instrumental activity which cause alienation.
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understanding is geared toward inner accordance with and the communicative accommodation of Others 
 recognition, in the three forms of love/friendship, legal recognition, and social esteem, establishes three kinds of resonant axes to the social world that allow individuals to experience self-confidence, self-respect, and self-esteem. 111:, they do not merely return the received sound, but speak "with their own voice". According to Rosa, the subjects' relational abilities and sense of their places in the world are influenced and reformed by such resonant experiences. Negative or alienated experiences, then, are those which lack resonance, and provide what 189:
As a sociological theory, resonance theory deals with the social conditions that promote or hinder successful world relationships. The conditions of modernity have created what he terms social acceleration, an approach to time which is geared towards increasing resources and innovations in as short a
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If an attempt is made to outline as resonance what people seek and long for in their innermost being, it is by no means conceived as a permanent state that can be established, but always as a selective, momentary success or self-transformation that stands out against the background of a world that is
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In all these contexts, resonant experiences are juxtaposed with silent or instrumental world relations, determined by an orientation towards domination and attaining resources, which are primarily concerned with the achievement of a useful goal. For example, a mountain tour aimed at tourists can
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and aesthetic appreciation. Felski argues that resonance provides an alternative to parametric and instrumental approaches to education, and makes the case for educational experiences that "speak to the force of intellectual engagement for its own sake", based on attachment, enchantment and affect.
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It is akin to the question of how humanity was able to move out of the social formations of the “Middle Ages” into modernity. Both cases involve a fundamental transformation of humanity’s relationship to the world that sets subjective and institutional, cultural and structural, cognitive, affective
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sees in the comprehensive combination of interdisciplinary strands the completion, but with it also the end, of critical theory, which thereby loses its "theoretically informed irreconcilability looking coldly at society". On the other hand, Brumlik states that this comprehensive derivation of the
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and habitual levels in motion all at once, without either a clear starting point or a unilinear direction of propagation. The theory of resonance articulated here, however, attempts to provide a small building block by at least making it possible to again perceive a different form of existence.
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as an obstacle to a successful life, but attempts to contrast this with a positive counter-concept, the concept of resonance. Honneth, for example, has already made this attempt with the concept of recognition. Despite critiques of the vagueness of the concept of resonance, Rosa sees this as a
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and social acceleration. Rosa advocates for policies which help achieve a ‘paradigm shift from the logic of escalation to sensitivity to resonance', prefacing that “This does not mean that there be no space for competition in markets”, but instead more regulation against "blind escalation".
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While the current phase of late modernism is characterized by a high resonance sensitivity and expectation of its subjects, the mode of dynamic stabilization results in a loss of resonance. Rosa notes three essential manifestations of the current crisis of modernity:
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terms 'a relation of relationlessness'. Resonance is therefore a way of approaching the question of successful relations between subject and world in the sense of "good life", which marks a significant departure from a critical theory primarily focused on relations of
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concept of resonance from a multitude of perspectives and contexts is flawed since "resonance" has an almost arbitrary effect that lacks conceptual precision. Brumlik concludes that it is therefore ultimately unsuitable as a social-philosophical basic concept.
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concepts, but at the same time sees the danger of Romanticism's championing of purely subjective emotion instead of resonance. Thus he rather describes the continuing effect of the resonance concepts of Romanticism in modernity, without propagating a return to it.
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Rosa states that purely aesthetic, easily accessible encounters with nature are not sufficient for resonance, stating that an "active, even combative and resistant relationship with nature", like a challenging mountain hike, can constitute a self-effacious world
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Rosa's book argues that the socio-political outlook on concrete solutions is poor and he has publicly shared his dissatisfaction with the paths to post-growth suggested in his original monograph. Despite reference to political reform proposals such as that of a
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In his monograph, Rosa employs a variety of metaphors to illustrate the concept of resonance. He likens it to being one's 'wire to the world' and compares it to the phenomenon of two tuning forks vibrating in harmony, each producing their own distinct
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Rosa says that “this sociology of human relationships to the world does not pursue its own political agenda”. However, he claims that resonance can serve as a driver in political debates, providing a standard for action. He lists, for instance:
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Rosa outlined the cause of several crises of modernity in his monograph on social acceleration and dynamic stabilisation. In this monograph, Rosa put forward social acceleration as the cultural logic of modernity and the cause of the modern
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Resonance is not an echo, but a responsive relationship, requiring that both sides speak with their own voice. This is only possible where strong evaluations are affected. Resonance implies an aspect of constitutive inaccessibility.
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A democratic arrangement that sees democracy as an instrument for “adaptively transforming public institutions, formative structures, and the shared lifeworld, and thus creates opportunities for the experience of genuine collective
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Rosa has been credited for his search for a far-reaching framework for addressing social issues issues in a matter quite contrasted with a critical theory which looks at the world in negative terms, often summarised with
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Resonant relationships require that both subject and world be sufficiently “closed” or self-consistent so as to each speak in their own voice, while also remaining open enough to be affected or reached by each other.
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the political crisis, arising from democratic negotiation processes being too slow to keep up with accelerated technological change, resulting in social changes which are therefore regarded as ineffective or
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For instance, a horizontal relationship of resonance is evidenced in the relationship between the newborn and primary caregivers, by whose reception or rejection of interactions the fundamental
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to visualise modernity's social acceleration, seeing "clearly the effort to translate the dynamization and fragmentation of the experience of space and the world into a new formal language."
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experience in which an individual experiences a transformational, responsive, and affectual relationship to the world, is the solution to the extremes of alienation caused by modernity.
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There is a particular interest in Rosa's ideas in education research. Several studies investigating the possibility of resonant school structures and pedagogies have been published.
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either be a resonant experience (as an opportunity to confront the beautiful but challenging walk), or a more purpose-oriented, instrumental, and therefore, "mute" experience.
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A recent fourth addition to resonance theory by Rosa is the axis of the self, the extent to which one feels a non-alienated sense of relation with their own body and psyche.
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Relations that are controlling, hostile or anixous result in "silent", non-resonant experiences. Rosa argues that much of consumer culture promises resonance commenting "
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Resonance is not an emotional state, but a mode of relation that is neutral with respect to emotional content. This is why we can love sad stories.
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In advocating for a system which emphasises a plurality of voices and is critical of escalatory logics, resonance is critical of both excessive
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With the aim of theorising a sociology of 'the good' in dialectical opposite to alienation, Rosa outlines the following definition of resonance:
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Horizontal resonances take place between two (or more) people, in love and family relationships, friendships or political space.
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Diagonal resonance axes are relationships to the world of things and regular activities, such as school or sports practice.
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Vertical resonance axes are relationships to abstract, ontological categories, such as nature, art, history or religion.
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Preserving resonances in how we interact with the natural world. For instance, problematising practices such as
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relationship as a vibrating system in which both sides mutually stimulate each other. However, as with a
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the psychological crisis of the subjects, overwhelmed by acceleration and therefore experiencing burnout
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due to the rapid extraction of nature's finite resources feeding an unlimited expectation of increase
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The possible points of reference of such resonances are ubiquitous and are described in four axes:
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of the subject, which give the object a significance that goes beyond desire or attractiveness.
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Göllner, Michael; Honnens, Johann; Krupp, Valerie; Oravec, Lina; Schmid, Silke, eds. (2023).
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Understanding Habermas : Communicative Action and Deliberative Democracy
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Other critics refer to Rosa's alleged recourse to the intellectual world of
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Prouteau, François; Hétier, Renaud; Wallenhorst, Nathanaël (2022-06-15).
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Rosa, Hartmut (2018). "The idea of resonance as a sociological concept".
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universal concept that includes concepts such as recognition, justice or
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Schools being made into resonance spaces which seek to reduce alienation
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Rosa finds some consonance between resonance and Habermas's concept of
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López-Deflory, Camelia; Perron, Amélie; Miró-Bonet, Margalida (2023).
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economies, Rosa does not necessarily provide a direct route to this:
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patterns develop. Diagonal resonances, are conveyed by Rosa through
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Sociological concept describing theoretical opposite to alienation
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Beschleunigung: die VerÀnderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne
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Jaeggi, Rahel; Neuhouser, Frederick; Smith, Alan (2014-08-26).
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is a quality of human relationships with the world proposed by
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as a sphere of resonance, rather than mere economic output
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Resonance: A Sociology of our Relationship to the World
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Index

Hartmut Rosa
sociology
University of Jena
burnout
environmental issues
alienation
late modernity
normative
subject
object
tuning fork
Rahel Jaeggi
Two tuning forks being sounded by a hand (on the left).
attachment
Rainer Maria Rilke
A picture of Ben Nevis on a clear day. A clear blue sky, a large mountain and a very green forest.
strong evaluations
Turner's painting rain, steam and speed. A very loose expressionist painting style convey a train rushing through intense rain.
Rain, Steam and Speed
ecological crisis
critical theory
Marx
Adorno
Horkheimer
Habermas
Honneth
alienation
self-efficacy
animal testing
labor as valuable

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