The New Social Ontologies of the Frankfurt School and the Dilemmas of their 'Application' in Latin America: The Case of Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Relationship with the World
The publication of Resonanz, by Hartmut Rosa, and Kritik von Lebensformen, by Rahel Jaeggi, mark a “social-ontological turn” in contemporary Critical Theory. Despite the great resonance of both authors, in the secondary literature there are no detailed treatments of their social ontologies: the theory of world-relations (TWR) and the theory of life-forms (TLF). The aim of the present paper is twofold. First (1), it aims to systematically reconstruct Rosa’s TWR as an illustration of the social-ontological turn in current Critical Theory. Second (2), it intends to offer some reflections on the epistemological dilemmas involved in attempts to “apply” social ontologies of this kind to the analysis of Latin American realities
Keywords:
Theory of World-Relations, Theory of Life Forms, Social Ontology, Latin America, Hartmut Rosa
Gros, A. . (2023). The New Social Ontologies of the Frankfurt School and the Dilemmas of their ’Application’ in Latin America: The Case of Hartmut Rosa’s Theory of Relationship with the World. Revista De Sociología, 38(1), 96–118. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-529X.2023.71326 (Original work published August 1, 2023)
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