 Hartmut Wasser is a professor of general and theoretical sociology at the University of Jena and the director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. For many years he was also director of the German Summer School Academy. Within sociology and critical social theory, Wasser is recognised as a pioneering member of the fourth generation of the Frankfurt School. His research focuses on the relationship between well-being, resonance and the acceleration of everyday life, which at a structural level cause for the reformulation of both human relationships and educational practices. I'm really interested in understanding modern society, the logic of its operation, but also the logic of its problems. And I think my main contribution to sociology was the analysis of modern society from a temporal perspective where the result that modern society needs to be understood by the logic of social acceleration and dynamic stabilisation. We need to grow, speed up and innovate incessantly and this creates a lot of problems. And I was also looking for solutions to this and this is how I came up with my theory of resonance as a different way of being in the world, which is not led by the logic and the moment of aggression towards the world but by a different form of relating to it. I've been involved with Aarhus University for more than 10 years now. I was in January 2013 as a professor of Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, invited to give the second Aarhus Lecture in Sociology. The first was given by Sigmund Baumann, so I was very proud then. And I've been coming back to Aarhus University quite a few times. We have been cooperating with the Max Weber Center in Erfurt in the Lift Ancient Religion Project. And then I was invited by Anders Moerasmussen to a very interesting conference on Protestantism and existentialism. And a bit later I was back for Romanticism and Nature and just last year giving an overview over my comprehensive social theory. So I'm very much looking forward now to deepen and intensify cooperation in the future. Hartmut Bosa is one of the most important and widely read social thinkers of our time. He also has a long-standing relationship with the Faculty of Arts in the Obnus. We have appreciated his generosity, his dialogical attitude and his inspiring collaborative spirit. Bosa's future affiliation with Aarhus University will benefit both research and teaching across disciplines. I'm therefore extremely pleased that we can strengthen our relationship through this honorary doctorate. I have had the pleasure of closely following Hartmut Bosa's work and his many visits to Aarhus University. His work helps us recognize the profound impact of contemporary society and capitalism on our lives. What makes Bosa's thinking so compelling, I think, is its openness, receptiveness and the extensive use of examples. It is an immense joy that we can present this very well-deserved honor to Hartmut Bosa.