Andreas Reckwitz
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Andreas Reckwitz
Andreas Reckwitz, born in 1970, is professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His 2017 book Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair and awarded the Bayrischer Buchpreis. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2019 and was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles in 2022.
Andreas Reckwitz, born in 1970, is professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His 2017 book Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair and awarded the Bayrischer Buchpreis. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2019 and was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles in 2022.
Awards (selection)
The »Political Book« Prize 2025
Leibniz Prize 2019
Leibniz Prize 2019
The »Political Book« Prize 2025
Leibniz Prize 2019
Leibniz Prize 2019
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2024
Andreas ReckwitzYear of Publication: 2024
Loss
Contemporary society is marked by forms of loss in manifold ways: from the effects of climate change to the protest movements of those who have lost out in the process of modernisation, from the...
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English world rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People's Publishing House), Italy (LUISS), Netherlands (Boom), Denmark (Reitzels), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Saemulgyul), Hungary (Gondolat)
Year of Publication: 2021
Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2021
Late Modernity in Crisis
In times of profound social upheavals and manifest crises, there is a need for fundamental analyses that take a look at contemporary society as a whole, examine its structural features and...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (NED Ediciones), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan), France (MSH), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul), Greece (Propobos)
Year of Publication: 2019
Andreas ReckwitzYear of Publication: 2019
The End of Illusions
Up until just a few years ago, Western societies seemed to be moving forward in the assumed certainty of social progress: the worldwide triumph of democracy and the market economy seemed...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Nola), Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), France (MSH), Denmark (Reitzels), Norway (Cappelen Damm Akademisk), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Jimbun Shoin), Croatia (TIM Press), Turkey (Kültür Yayinlari), Greece (Alexandria)
Year of Publication: 2017
Andreas ReckwitzYear of Publication: 2017
The Society of Singularities
The particular is the clincher and the unique is prized while the general and the standardised remain, on the contrary, rather unattractive. The average person with his or her average life...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), Chinese complex rights (Business Weekly Publications), Russia (Directmedia), Brazilian Portuguese rights (ContraCorrente), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (MSH), Italy (Meltemi), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Iwanami Shoten), Czech Republic (Nakladatelství Filosofia Filosofického), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (KX – Critique and Humanism), Slovenia (Krtina)
Year of Publication: 2012
Andreas ReckwitzYear of Publication: 2012
The Invention of Creativity
Be creative! In today’s society the pressure and the desire to be creative and to produce ever newer things is extraordinarily widespread.
What was once reserved...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Catarata), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People's Publishing House), France (Presses du réel), Italy (Quodlibet), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul)
Previously published in the respective language/territory; rights available again: Poland (National Centre for Culture)
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Andreas Reckwitz receives Leibniz Prize 2019
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz is awarded the 2019 Leibniz Prize.News