Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality - Tapa blanda

Rosa, Hartmut

 
9781509572076: Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality

Sinopsis

Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all western societies, time scarcity is increasing and individuals report the impression of having to run faster and faster every year – not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay where they are.

In this short book Hartmut Rosa outlines his theory of social acceleration and uses it to analyse the causes and consequences of the temporal processes that characterize modern societies. He shows that modern temporal structures are governed by the logic of an acceleration process that defines the essence of modernity. He also develops a critical theory of social acceleration, arguing that acceleration leads to severe forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions and from self and others, thus constituting a key obstacle to the realization of a 'good life' in late-modern society.

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Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

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9788787564144: Alienation & Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality (NSU Summertalk, 3)

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ISBN 10:  8787564149 ISBN 13:  9788787564144
Editorial: NSU Press, 2010
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