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  • Sociology  (2)
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    Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA :Polity Press,
    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
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    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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    ISBN: 9781501383847 , 9781501383830
    Language: English
    Pages: 260 Seiten , Diagramme
    Uniform Title: Ehrgeiz
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goebel, Eckart Ambition
    DDC: 302.5/4
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    Keywords: Ambition
    Abstract: "A stunning exploration of ambition that brings together literary, philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on this most human of passions. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from authors and thinkers that range from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, and from a history that moves from ancient Greece and Rome via Italian Renaissance to modernity, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-an insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power"--
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