The point of departure of my research is an understanding of sociology as a branch of the humanities and thus as a discipline basically oriented towards culture. In this context, I have pursued two interests: On the one hand, I have contributed to cultural theory and above all to a cultural theory of social practices. On the other hand, in the framework of historical sociology of culture I have been dealing with the question in which way forms of the aesthetic and aestheticization have influenced and influence the form of modern societies. Here, the issue of how the modern self (or the modern subject) has been shaped gained a special relevance for me. Thus, boundaries and their crossings interest me both as a theoretical and as an empirical problem: as a challenge to cultural theory in order to sensitize itself to phenomena of hybridity; and in the shape of (post-)modern boundary crossings between aestheticizations, economizations and rationalizations.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz
Professor of Cultural Sociology, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
theory of social practices. On the other hand, in the framework of historical sociology of culture I have been dealing with the question in which way forms of the aesthetic and aestheticization have influenced and influence the form of modern societies. Here, the issue of how the modern self (or the modern subject) has been shaped gained a special relevance for me. Thus, boundaries and their crossings interest me both as a theoretical and as an empirical problem: as a challenge to cultural theory in order to sensitize itself to phenomena of hybridity; and in the shape of (post-)modern boundary crossings between aestheticizations, economizations and rationalizations.