Autonomia o risonanza? La teoria critica di Hartmut Rosa tra pluralismo diagnostico e monismo normativo

Hartmut Rosa’s work is one of the most significant attempts to establish on a new basis a general critical theory of society capable of offering new plausible views on the crises which affect current times and enabling the prospect of a cultural and political alternative. Rosa is outstanding, moreover, for his capacity to hold together sociology and philosophy in his own research. His way of handling the social critic’s task capitalizes on different outlooks and strategies. Usually, these varied stances interact productively. Sometimes, however, they generate friction and collide. The divergent perspectives become especially problematic when Rosa comes to a conclusion which actually disallows the pluralistic approach that I try to reconstruct in the first part of my paper. This happens, for example, when he claims that the concept of «resonance» may become the unique standard for a monistic restoration of a general critique of society. As a result, however, social critique runs the risk of changing from an internal critique of modernity into a critique of modernity as such