Abt. Geschichtswissenschaft

"Andreas Reckwitz über das Erben in der Spätmoderne" from the Krumme Straße podcast

The latest episode of the Krumme Straße podcast — a collaboration between the journal Merkur and the KWI Essen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities — features a conversation with Andreas Reckwitz, Professor of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology at Humboldt University of Berlin, on the topic of heritage in late modernity.

Modernity has long been defined as a future-oriented society. Yet, as this future orientation falters in late modernity, the heritage of the past acquires renewed significance: we can no longer avoid inheritance. But what exactly do we inherit?

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