Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz

General Sociology | Prof. Reckwitz

Chair of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology

Biographical information | Publications

Contact

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Requests regarding newspaper contributions, media appearances, talks, cooperations
marie.rosenkranz (at) hu-berlin.de

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Secretary (Ulrike Ziebur): sekasowi (at) hu-berlin.de

Personal contact
andreas.reckwitz (at) hu-berlin.de

Mailing Address

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Social Sciences
Social Theory and Cultural Sociology
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

Office

Universitätsstraße 3b, room 321a
10117 Berlin

Leibniz Prize

In 2019, the German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded Andreas Reckwitz the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important research award in Germany.

Translated books

	May 2023 Late Modernity in Crisis (with Hartmut Rosa), Polity. (Abb.: © Polity) German title: Spätmoderne in der Krise. Was leistet die Gesellschaftstheorie?, Suhrkamp 2021 further translations: into Chinese at Shanghai People’s Publishing House, Shanghai into Chinese at Wu-Nan, Taipeh into Danish at Reitzels, Kopenhagen into Spanish at NED Ediciones, Barcelona into French at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
	June 2021 The End of Illusions. Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity, Polity. (Abb.: © Polity) German title: Das Ende der Illusionen. Politik Ökonomie und Kultur in der Spätmoderne, Suhrkamp 2019 further translations: into Spanish at Nola, Madrid into Chinese at Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP), Beijing into Chinese at Wu-Nan, Taipeh into French at Les éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), Paris into Japenese at Jimbun Shoin, Kyoto into Danish at Reitzels, Copenhagen into Croatian at TIM Press, Zagreb into Greek at Alexandria, Athen
	April 2020 The Society of Singularities, Polity. (cover: © Politiy Press) German title: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten . Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne, Suhrkamp 2017. further translations: into Spanish at Katz, Buenos Aires into Chinese at Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP), Beijing; into French at Les éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), Paris into Russian at Russische by Directmedia, Moskau into Corean at Saemulgyul, Seoul into Turkish at Tün Kitap, Ankara into Danish at Reitzels, Copenhagen into Slovenian at bei Krtina, Ljubljana Bavarian Book Prize as best non-fiction book 2017 1st place in the ZDF/ Deutschlandfunk/ DIE ZEIT non-fiction bestseller list in November 2017 nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Non-Fiction Prize 2018 Award in the program "Geisteswissenschaften International" of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels) 2018
	April 2017 The Invention of Creativity. Modern Society and the Culture of the New, Polity Press (cover: © Wiley) German title: Die Erfindung der Kreativität. Zum Prozess gesellschaftlicher Ästhetisierung, Suhrkamp 2012. further translations: into Spanish at La Catarata, Madrid into French at Presses du rèel, Dijon into Danish at Reitzels, Copenhagen; into Polish at Narodowe Centrum Kultury, Warsaw into Korean at Saemulgyul, Seoul into French at Presses du réel, Dijon into Italian at Quodlibet, Marceta into Spanish at La Catarata, Madrid Award in the program "Geisteswissenschaften International" of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels) 2014