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Over the last couple of decades, two German sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, have sought to provide wide-ranging social theories of this kind. While their theories are very different, they share in common the view that the analysis of modernity as a social formation must be kept at the heart of sociology, and that the theory of society should ultimately serve to diagnose the crises of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLate Modernity in Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa join forces to examine the value and the limits of a theory of society today. They provide clear and concise accounts of their own theories of society, explicate their key concepts—including \"singularization\" in the case of Reckwitz, \"acceleration\" and \"resonance\" in the case of Rosa—and draw out the implications of their theories for understanding the multiple crises we face today. 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