G. Peter Kaye Lecture 2024
The Listening Society: Religion, Music, & Democracy in Resonance
Friday, March 1st at 7pm
Public Lecture: ‘Give us a hearing heart’. The Listening Society and Its Enemies (In-Person & Online)
Saturday, March 2nd, 10am – 2pm
Public Workshop: Democracy Needs Religion: On a Peculiar but Resonant Relationship (In-Person only)
Location:
Epiphany Chapel
6030 Chancellor Blvd, Vancouver
Abstract:
The predominant modern way of being and acting in the world leads almost inevitably to political, ecological, and psychological disaster. The necessity of incessant growth, acceleration, and innovation that our current mode of being insists upon is a kind of deafness and muteness—an aggressive way of being oriented towards control.
But this cannot be all there is. A resonant mode of being takes its cue from music: listening and responding. Such a mode of being is developed in theological theories and embodied in religious rituals and practices. However, religious dogmas can easily flip course and become resonance killers.
The challenge we face is to work out and divide the dividing lines in this Janus Face of Religion.
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Dr. Hartmut Rosa is the Professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at Freidrich-Schiller University in Jena and the Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University. His research focuses include Resonance-Theory, normative and empirical foundations of critical social theory, political and philosophical communitarianism and civil society, and temporal sociology of social acceleration.