Professor Hartmut Rosa admitted to the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities was founded in 1846 as the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences and Humanities and, like its sister institutions, follows in the tradition of Leibniz's academy idea of combining theoriam cum praxi. More than 200 scientists from a wide range of disciplines meet here regularly to exchange views, discuss methods and results of specialised research in interdisciplinary discussions and dedicate themselves to long-term basic research. The Saxon Academy elects its full members from the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. It also currently conducts more than 20 research projects in the humanities – mostly in close cooperation with universities and non-university research institutions.

As a member of the philological-historical class, Hartmut Rosa will be involved in interdisciplinary discussions within the academy and will be able to contribute his questions on social energy and science. "Interestingly, we feel motivated and energised when we deal with exciting research topics and relevant debates, whereas we quickly tire when we have to compile banal quantifications of expected research results," he explains. "I would also like to explore this phenomenon of social energy in the academic world, and the Academy, with its different disciplines, outstanding personalities and a sophisticated culture of discourse, seems to me to offer an extremely interesting framework that can yield unexpected insights."