ISBN:
978-1-5095-4315-1
,
1509543155
,
978-1-5095-4316-8
,
1509543163
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 132 Seiten ;
,
22 cm.
Uniform Title:
Unverfügbarkeit
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rosa, Hartmut, 1965- Uncontrollability of the world
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Social change
;
Progress
;
Control (Psychology) / Social aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
Abstract:
"The price we pay for our modern desire to control the world"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: On Snow -- The World as a Point of Aggression -- Four Dimensions of Controllability -- The Paradoxical Flipside: The Mysterious Retreat of the World -- The World as a Point of Resonance -- Five Theses on the Controllability of Things and the Uncontrollability of Experience -- To Take Control or Let Things Happen? The Basic Conflict of Modernity at Six Stages of Life -- Control as an Institutional Necessity: The Structural Dimension of the Basic Conflict of Modernity -- The Uncontrollability of Desire and the Desire for the Uncontrollable -- The Monstrous Return of the Uncontrollable -- Conclusion
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