Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity

Columbia University Press (2013)
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Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory.

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9780231148344   0231148348   0231148356   9780231519885

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10.7312/rosa14834
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Introduction

1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity

2. What Is Social Acceleration?

3. 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

6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration

7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration

8. Power, War, and Speed: State and Military as Key Institutional Accelerators

9. Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity

10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players

11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration

12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An Attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity

Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History

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