The driving cultural force of that form of life we call âmodernâ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world â...
The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any more happy or content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in 'resonance'....
For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word âcapitalismâ sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmospher...
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communicatio...
Die Kritik am Kapitalismus hat spätestens mit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise eine Renaissance erfahren. Gibt es Grenzen des ökonomischen Wachstums? Sind kontrollierte Kapitalmärkte, ein gerechteres Steuersystem oder die Einführung...
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies in particular three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation...