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Acceleration / Beschleunigung
The Change in Temporal Structures in Modernity
The international academic bestseller
Acceleration is a key term of modernity and »deceleration« a fashionable contemporary term. Both form part of a social development that has had a lasting impact on the last decades. Neither modernization nor globalization can be understood without acceleration.
In his brilliant and provocative book Hartmut Rosa attempts not only to systematically record this acceleration of social conditions, but also to analyze their cultural and structural origins not to...
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Acceleration is a key term of modernity and »deceleration« a fashionable contemporary term. Both form part of a social development that has had a lasting impact on the last decades. Neither modernization nor globalization can be understood without acceleration.
In his brilliant and provocative book Hartmut Rosa attempts not only to systematically record this acceleration of social conditions, but also to analyze their cultural and structural origins not to mention their repercussions for individual and collective lifestyles. Rosa explores the bright and dark sides of acceleration; his analysis throws a new light on issues of modernization and globalization. As Thomas Assheuer writes in his enthusiastic review in the Zeit, the result is an impressive theory of modernization.
One of the central theses is that while initially modern social acceleration had a liberating and empowering effect in late modernity it is in danger of becoming the very opposite. Our experience of time and history is changing both as individuals and collectively: Rather than moving forward directly perception seems to move in a motionless, frozen acceleration spiral.
2005, 537 pages
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Hartmut Rosa
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Hartmut Rosa, born in 1965, is professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies in Erfurt. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Tractatus Prize, the Erich Fromm Prize and the Leibniz Prize.
Hartmut Rosa
Author
Hartmut Rosa, born in 1965, is professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Max Weber...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2021
Late Modernity in Crisis
In times of profound social upheavals and manifest crises, there is a need for fundamental analyses that take a look at contemporary society as a whole, examine its structural features and...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (NED Ediciones), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan), France (MSH), Denmark (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul)
Year of Publication: 2016
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2016
Resonance
If acceleration is the problem, then perhaps resonance is the solution. This, in the briefest possible terms, is the central thesis of Hartmut Rosa’s latest book, which can be seen as the...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz Editores), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), France (La Découverte), Denmark (Eksistensen), Japan (Shinsensha)
Year of Publication: 2013
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2013
Acceleration and Alienation
»This book is a short essay on modern life. It strives to ask the ›right‹ sorts of questions that would allow social philosophy and sociology to speak to the everyday reality...
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English edition available through Aarhus UP
Previously published in the respective language/territory; rights available again: Turkey (Albaraka)
Year of Publication: 2012
Hartmut RosaYear of Publication: 2012
Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration
After Hartmut Rosa’s widely noted and successful Beschleunigung. Die Veränderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne, his new work analyzes from various perspectives how the acceleration of ...
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Sweden (Daidalos), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga)
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Hartmut Rosa receives Leibniz Prize 2023
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