Hartmut Rosa

Social Acceleration

A New Theory of Modernity
Übersetzung: Trejo-Mzthys, Jonathan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match the future. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780231148351
• ISBN-10: 0231148356
• Artikelnr.: 42148523

Autorenporträt

Hartmut Rosa. Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction
In Place of a Preface
Introduction
Part 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social
Acceleration
1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of
Modernity
2. What Is Social Acceleration?
Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social
Acceleration
3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime
4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of
Contingency
5. The Acceleration of the "Pace of Life" and Paradoxes in the Experience
of Time
Part 3. Causes
6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of
Acceleration
7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration
8. Power
Part 4. Consequences
9. Acceleration
10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players
11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between
Desynchronization and Disintegration
12. Acceleration and Rigidity: Attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity
Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History
Bibliography
Index