Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
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. It is as if we are standing on slippery slopes, a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fun…
Mehr
CHF 129.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V105:
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Trejo-Mathys, Jonathan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14834-4
- EAN: 9780231148344
- Produktnummer: 14253155
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.6 cm 824 g
- Abbildungen: 13 illus.; 3 Tables
- Gewicht: 824
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Hartmut Rosa is a professor of sociology and political science at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and a visiting professor of sociology at the New School. He has also taught at Harvard University. He is the author of Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality and coeditor, with William E. Scheuerman, of High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity. Jonathan Trejo-Mathys is an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College.
77 weitere Werke von Hartmut Rosa:
Weltbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Beschleunigung
A New Theory of Modernity
A New Theory of Modernity
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 25.00
Große Transformation? Zur Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften
A New Theory of Modernity
A New Theory of Modernity
Ebook (PDF Format)
CHF 48.50
Bewertungen
Anmelden