E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
A New Theory of Modernity
E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory
ISBN: 978-0-231-51988-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Translator's Introduction
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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
2. What Is Social Acceleration?
Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of 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
Part 3. Causes
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
Part 4. Consequences
9. Acceleration
10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players
11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration
12. Acceleration and Rigidity: Attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity
Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History
Bibliography
Index