Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration

Outlines for a New Social Critique

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Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration / Weltbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Beschleunigung

Outlines for a New Social Critique

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 social life affects modern subjects’ experience of, relationship with, and processing of world.

Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration. Outlines for a New Social Critique sketches out the programme for a critical sociology centring around the identification of those social...

Global Relationships in the Age of Acceleration. Outlines for a New Social Critique sketches out the programme for a critical sociology centring around the identification of those social conditions and prerequisites that make possible successful individual and collective appropriation of world.

2012, 446 pages

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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

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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...

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