German sociologist Hartmut Rosa analyses the development of modernity under the temporal aspect of acceleration. Today, technology seems to help us save time and increase our control over the world, but, paradoxically, in our lives we are experiencing an ever-increasing lack of time, and constant time pressure. The recent pandemic has delivered a huge blow to this spiral of acceleration and has almost brought our entire social and economic life to a complete standstill. This cannot be a solution for the frenetic pace of contemporary life, but it nevertheless reveals the need for a deeper change in our attitude towards the world, and towards life itself. Rosa calls this new attitude ,resonance‘. In the present paper I want to contrast this notion of resonance with today’s much advocated notion of ,resilience‘, as well as establishing a dialogue between resonance and some current philosophical approaches which come very close to this concept of Rosa.
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