Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time.According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the shr…
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Weitere Autoren: Trejo-Mathys, Jonathan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-51988-5
- EAN: 9780231519885
- Produktnummer: 22651376
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'232 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 illus.; 3 Tables
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Hartmut Rosa. Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys
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