Andreas Reckwitz

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Andreas Reckwitz (18 March 1970 in Witten) is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. [1]

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Life

Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge. He graduated 1994 in Cambridge, overseen by Anthony Giddens. [2] He achieved his Dr. phil. in 1999 at Hamburg University. From 2001 to 2005 he worked there as assistant professor at the sociological faculty. In 2005 he became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Konstanz University, 2010 professor for sociology of culture at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2020 Reckwitz became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Reckwitz is a prominent proponent of social practice theory and contributed to its development as an encompassing social and cultural theory. This serves as basis for his works on subjectivation, creativity and singularization of the social life.

In 2017 he published his work on the structure of the current late modern society, Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne, [3] which was published in English in 2020 as The Society of Singularities. In this book he analyses how economy, work, information technology, lifestyle, classes and politics follow a system which values singularity and devalues non-singularity.

Reckwitz wrote several articles for the newspaper Die Zeit and appeared as an interview partner on the German national radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur discussing current socio-cultural and political trends and issues in western societies. [4] [5] [6]

In 2019 Reckwitz was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ sowi_adm. "Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz – Institut für Sozialwissenschaften". www.sowi.hu-berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Andreas Reckwitz: Die Transformation der Kulturtheorien. Zur Entwicklung eines Theorieprogramms, mit einem Nachwort zur Studienausgabe 2006: Aktuelle Tendenzen der Kulturtheorien. 2nd ed. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2008, p. 12.
  3. ↑ "Sachbuch | Buchpreis". www.bayerischer-buchpreis.de. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Andreas Reckwitz". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Soziologe Andreas Reckwitz – Das Zeitalter der Deregulierung ist zu Ende". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Soziologe Andreas Reckwitz – Plädoyer für eine Abkühlung öffentlicher Debatten". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
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