Resonanzsensibilität von Kulturen

This article seeks to complement Hartmut Rosa’s stimulating book on resonance theory from an intercultural or, in a present-day term, transcultural perspective. This approach is chosen here because societies can vary extremely with regard to their mutual cultural sensitivity. This fact entailed important historical consequences. The article first presents Rosa’s concept of resonance (1), then provides a brief working definition of culture (2). After offering a general proposition on transcultural resonance sensitivity (3), the article discusses early modern preconditions of cultural interaction between Europe and Latin America as well as between Europe and East Asia. The pre-modern world most likely left more comparable patterns of cultural identity than our present world of largely unified global culture (4). Three histories of resonance between Europe, on the one hand, and Japan, China and Spanish America, on the other (5) form the basis of some general conclusions in the final section

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