Andreas Reckwitz

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another, and the idea...

In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyse the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways out of the crises we face. Over the last couple of decades, two German sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz...

Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardised products, cities, subjects and organisations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern societies, we value the exceptional—unique objects, experiences, places, individuals, events and communities which are beyond the ordinary and which claim a...

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea...