Resonans i höghastighetssamhället

Rosas samhällsvetenskapliga teori ur ett pedagogiskt perspektiv

Abstract

The text is a review of sociologist Hartmund Rosa's latest book, Resonance (Rosa, 2019). Although Rosa touches on many of the classic and major educational issues, no attempts to work with Rosa's theoretical concepts have been made in pedagogical research, at least not in the Nordic countries (see, however, Rosa, 2013b, for an invitation). Rosa's new book Resonance (2019) is about the self's relation to the world and how it changes during modernity and especially late-modernity, i.e. from the 1970s onwards. The theory revolves around two major poles and different basic attitudes to life, resonance - a vibrating life to people and things - and alienation - a mute life with "frozen" ties to the world. The book builds on the earlier book Social Acceleration (2013a) and can be read as the former makes a contemporary diagnosis, the latter points out ways of action out of this time regime. The book is thus concluded by a "reconstruction of the modern project".