ISBN:
9780231148344
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (513 p)
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Acceleration : A New Theory of Modernity
DDC:
303.01
Keywords:
Time pressure
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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