Alienation and acceleration : towards a critical theory of late-modern temporality / Hartmut Rosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosa, Hartmut, 1965-

Series:

NSU summertalk ; v. 3.

NSU summertalk ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Alienation (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

111 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malm�o : NSU Press, [2010]

Contents:

Part 1 AT Theory of Social Acceleration

l What is social Acceleration? 13

2 The Driving-Wheels of Social Acceleration 26

3 What is Social Deceleration? 33

4 Why there is acceleration rather than deceleration 39

5 Why does it matter? Acceleration and the Transformation of our 'Being in the World' 41

Part 2 Social Acceleration and the Contemporary Versions of Critical Theory

6 Requirements of a Critical Theory 51

7 Acceleration and the 'Critique of the conditions of communication 55

8 Acceleration and the 'Critique of the conditions of social recognition 57

9 Acceleration as a new form of Totalitarianism 61

Part 3 Outlines of a Critical Theory op Social Acceleration

10 Three variants of a critique of temporal conditions 67

11 The functionalist critique: Pathologies of De-Synchronization 69

12 The normative critique: Ideology revisited. Unmasking the hidden social norms of temporality 74

13 The ethical critique 1: The Broken Promise of Modernity 77

14 The ethical critique 2: Alienation Revisited - Why Social Acceleration leads to 'Entfremdung 83.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111).

ISBN:

9788787564144

8787564149

OCLC:

646007047

Publisher Number:

99972579293