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Das hybride Subjekt: Eine Theorie der Subjektkulturen von der bürgerlichen Moderne zur Postmoderne

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Welche Form nimmt in der Moderne das Subjekt an? Gängige große Erzählungen der Moderne behaupten hier entweder einen Prozess der ›Individualisierung‹, der Freisetzung von Individuen aus sozialen Bindungen, oder einen Prozess der ›Disziplinierung‹, der immer stärkeren Unterordnung des Einzelnen unter rationalisierende Normen. Demgegenüber wird in diesem Buch in der Form einer historischen Kulturanalyse der Moderne eine andere Perspektive eingenommen: Die Kultur der westlichen Moderne vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zum Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts stellt sich als ein Konfliktfeld dar, auf dem sehr unterschiedliche Formen dessen, was ein modernes, anerkanntes und erstrebenwertes Subjekt ausmachen soll, miteinander konkurrieren. Es gibt nicht ›die‹ moderne Persönlichkeitsstruktur als eine homogene, widerspruchsfreie Einheit. Die Kulturen des Subjekts stellen sich vielmehr als Überlagerungen differenter kultureller Muster unterschiedlicher Herkunft dar: das moderne Subjekt ist ein durch und durch ›hybrides‹ Arrangement der Subjektivation, das systematisch von Brüchen durchzogen ist.

704 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2006

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Andreas Reckwitz

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Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge. He graduated 1994 in Cambridge, overseen by Anthony Giddens. 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, which was published in English in 2020 as The Society of Singularities. In this book he analyses how economy, work, information technlogy, lifestyle, classes and politics follow a system which values singularity and devalues non-sigularity.

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.

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

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