"Ein Mensch mit einem Zeitgefühl, wie ihn die Erde noch nie gesehen hat" - Eugen Rosenstock-Huessys zeitliche Soziologie des Industriearbeiters

Abstract

The article examines an early sociologist of industry and his analysis of the specific temporality the modern industrial worker is subject to. After the Great War, the historian of law Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy turned to sociological questions, taking his point of departure from the lived reality of the individual. To Rosenstock, Industry's imputed calendar with its monotony of a permanent calculable present is the reason why the individual worker, not being able to shape his own future existence, loses his 'living relation' to the future. To counter the grave effects on the psyche and the mentality of the individual worker, Rosenstock intends to activate the temporality of Christianity.