Andreas Reckwitz

Andreas Reckwitz (18 March 1970 in Witten) is a German sociologist and cultural theorist.

He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge.

He graduated 1994 in Cambridge, overseen by Anthony Giddens.

He achieved his Dr. phil. in 1999 at Hamburg University.

From 2001 to 2005 he worked there as assistant professor at the sociological faculty.

In 2005 he became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Konstanz University, 2010 professor for sociology of culture at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder).

In 2017 he published his work on the structure of the current late modern society, ''Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten.

In 2019 Reckwitz was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

As editor

In 2020 Reckwitz became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Reckwitz is a prominent proponent of social practice theory and contributed to its development as an encompassing social and cultural theory.

This serves as basis for his works on subjectivation, creativity and singularization of the social life.

Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne, which was published in English in 2020 as The Society of Singularities''.

In this book he analyses how economy, work, information technology, lifestyle, classes and politics follow a system which values singularity and devalues non-singularity.

Reckwitz wrote several articles for the newspaper Die Zeit and appeared as an interview partner on the German national radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur discussing current socio-cultural and political trends and issues in western societies.