ISBN:
9780231519885
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (513 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Rosa, Hartmut, 1965 - Social acceleration
DDC:
303.01
Keywords:
Civilization, Modern - 21st century
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century
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Social change
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Social change
;
Time - Sociological aspects
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Time -- Sociological aspects
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Time perception
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Time perception
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Time pressure
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Time pressure
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Electronic books
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Sozialer Wandel
;
Zeitwahrnehmung
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Beschleunigung
Abstract:
Contents; Illustrations; Translator's Introduction: Modernity and Time; 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; 1. Acceleration and the Culture of Modernity; 2. Modernization, Acceleration, and Social Theory; 2. What Is Social Acceleration?; 1. Preliminary Considerations: Acceleration and Escalation; 2. Three Dimensons of Social Acceleration; 3. Five Categories of Inertia; 4. On the Relation Between Movement and Inertia in Modernity
Abstract:
PART 2: Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration3. 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; 1. Objective Parameters: The Escalation of the Speed of Action; 2. Subjective Parameters: The Pressure and the Experience of Racing Time; 3. Temporal Structures and Self-Relations; PART 3: Causes
Abstract:
6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration7. Acceleration and Growth: External Driving Forces of Social Acceleration; 1. Time Is Money: The Economic Motor; 2. The Promise of Acceleration: The Cultural Motor; 3. The Temporalization of Complexity: The Socio-Structural Motor; 8. Power, War, and Speed: The State and the Military as Key Institutional Accelerators; PART 4: Consequences; 9, Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity; 10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players; 1. The Dynamization of the Self in Modernity
Abstract:
2. From Substantial A Priori Identity to Stable a Posteriori Identity: The Temporalization of Life3. From Temporally Stable to Situational Identity: The Temporalization of Time; 11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration; 1. Time in Politics - Politics in Time; 2. The Temporalization of History in the Modern Age; 3. Paradoxical Time Horizons: The Detemporalization of History in Late Modernity; 12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An Attempt to Redefine Modernity; Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Abstract:
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 ou
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