Name: The Uncontrollability of the World
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Author: Hartmut Rosa
ISBN: 9781509543168

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Hartmut Rosa

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

140

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781509543168

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Uncontrollability of the World "

The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world. Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside our control. But because we late-modern human beings seek to make the world controllable, we tend to encounter the world as a series of objects that we have to conquer, master or exploit. And precisely because of this, ‘life,’ the experience of feeling alive and truly encountering the world, always seems to elude us. This in turn leads to frustration, anger and even despair, which then manifest themselves in, among other things, acts of impotent political aggression. For Rosa, to encounter the world and achieve resonance with it requires us to be open to that which extends beyond our control. The outcome of this process cannot be predicted, and this is why moments of resonance are always concomitant with moments of uncontrollability. This short book – the sequel to Rosa’s path-breaking work on social acceleration and resonance – will be of great interest students and scholars in sociology and the social sciences and to anyone concerned with the nature of modern social life.

Hartmut Rosa

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Hartmut Rosa (Lörrach, 1965) is a philosopher and sociologist, considered one of the representatives of the new critical theory. His research area is based on the sociology of time and the formation of identities. He is a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena and director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He has collaborated with the New School for Social Research in New York and the German universities of Augsburg, Duisburg-Essen, and Manheim, among others. He has received numerous awards for his work, most recently the Tractatus Essay Prize 2016 and the Erich Fromm Prize 2018.

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