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The Uncontrollability of the World


The Uncontrollability of the World


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von: Hartmut Rosa

16,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 06.10.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781509544165
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 140

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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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.
<p>Beyond Control vii</p> <p>Introduction: On Snow 1</p> <p>1 The World as a Point of Aggression 5</p> <p>2 Four Dimensions of Controllability 15</p> <p>3 The Paradoxical Flipside: The Mysterious Withdrawal of the World 19</p> <p>4 The World as a Point of Resonance 30</p> <p>5 Five Theses on the Controllability of Things and the Uncontrollability of Experience 40</p> <p>6 To Take Control or to Let Things Happen? The Basic Conflict of Modernity at Six Stages of Life 60</p> <p>7 Control as an Institutional Necessity: The Structural Dimension of the Basic Conflict of Modernity 86</p> <p>8 The Uncontrollability of Desire and the Desire for the Uncontrollable 102</p> <p>9 The Monstrous Return of the Uncontrollable 110</p> <p>Conclusion 117</p> <p>Notes 118</p>
<p>"A rare combination of erudition, theoretical sophistication and philosophical inventiveness, this magnificent book provides a starting point for any forensic exploration of the cultural dilemmas and political contradictions of our times."<br />—<b>Achille Mbembe, author of <i>Necropolitics</i></b></p> <p>"<i>The Uncontrollability of the World</i> is a remarkable book, packing a lot of insightful theory as well as analyses of its practical validity into a slim volume that, I hope, will find its way to the reading lists of many courses on social philosophy as well as the tables of fellow academics throughout the world."<br />—<b><i>Phenomenological Reviews</i></b></p>
<p><b>Hartmut Rosa</b> is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany. His many books include <i>Social Acceleration</i> and <i>Resonance</i>.</p>

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