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1 online resource (580 pages) |
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Intro; Front Matter; In Lieu of a Foreword: Sociology and the Story of Anna and Hannah; Notes; I Introduction; 1 Sociology, Modernity, and the Good Life; 2 The Basic Idea: Successful and Unsuccessful Relationships to the World; 3 What is the World? Who is a Subject?; 4 Method of Analysis; Notes; Part One: The Basic Elements of Human Relationships to the World; II Bodily Relationships to the World; 1 Being Situated in the World; 2 Breathing; 3 Eating and Drinking; 4 Voice, Gaze, Countenance; 5 Walking, Standing, Sleeping; 6 Laughing, Crying, Loving; Notes |
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III Appropriating World and Experiencing World1 Inscription and Expression: The Worldly Body as Designed Self; 2 Media of Our Relationship to the World; 3 Modifying from Without or Subduing from Within: The Body as Resource, Instrument, and Design Object; 4 Self-Alienation: The Body as Enemy; Notes; IV Emotional, Evaluative, and Cognitive Relationships to the World; 1 Fear and Desire as Elementary Forms of Our Relationship to the World; 2 Experiencing World and Appropriating World; 3 Cognitive Roadmaps and Cultural Worldviews; 4 Roadmaps of Desire and Evaluation |
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5 Psycho-Emotional Grounding and Defining the Problem of ExistenceNotes; V Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World; 1 Mirror Neurons and Divining Rods: Intersubjectivity as an Anthropological Basis; 2 Intrinsic Interests and Perceived Self-Efficacy; 3 Resonance; 4 Alienation; 5 The Dialectic of Resonance and Alienation; Notes; Part Two: Spheres and Axes of Resonance; VI Introduction: Spheres of Resonance, Recognition, and the Axes of Our Relationship to the World; Notes; VII Horizontal Axes of Resonance |
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1 Family as a Harbor of Resonance in a Stormy Sea2 Friendship: Human Affection and the Power of Forgiveness; 3 Politics: The Four Voices of Democracy; Notes; VIII Diagonal Axes of Resonance; 1 Relating to Objects: "I Love to Hear the Singing of Things"; 2 Work: When Material Begins to Respond; 3 Schools as Resonant Spaces; 4 Sports and Consumption as Efforts to Feel Oneself; Notes; IX Vertical Axes of Resonance; 1 The Promise of Religion; 2 The Voice of Nature; 3 The Power of Art; 4 The Mantle of History; Notes |
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Part Three: Fear of the Muting of the World: A Reconstruction of Modernity in Terms of Resonance TheoryX Modernity as the History of a Catastrophe of Resonance; 1 What is Modernity?; 2 The Muting of the World in Literature and Philosophy; 3 Toward a Sociology of Our Relationship to the World; Notes; XI Modernity as the History of Increasing Sensitivity to Resonance; Notes; XII Deserts and Oases of Life: Modern Everyday Practices in Terms of Resonance Theory; Notes; Part Four: A Critical Theory of Our Relationship to the World |
| Summary |
The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in "resonance." The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we must consider our relationship to, or resonance with, the world. Applying his theory of resonance to many domains of human activity, Rosa describes the full spectrum of ways in which we establish our relationship to the world, from the act of breathing to the adoption of culturally distinct worldviews. He then turns to the realms of concrete experience and action - family and politics, work and sports, religion and art - in which we as late modern subjects seek out resonance. This task is proving ever more difficult as modernity's logic of escalation is both cause and consequence of a distorted relationship to the world, at individual and collective levels. As Rosa shows, all the great crises of modern society - the environmental crisis, the crisis of democracy, the psychological crisis - can also be understood and analyzed in terms of resonance and our broken relationship to the world around us. Building on his now classic work on acceleration, Rosa's new book is a major new contribution to the theory of modernity, showing how our problematic relation to the world is at the crux of some of the most pressing issues we face today. This bold renewal of critical theory for our times will be of great interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities |
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XIII Social Conditions of Successful and Unsuccessful Relationships to the World |
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Time -- Sociological aspects.
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Social change.
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Alienation
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Civilization, Modern
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Social change
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Time -- Sociological aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781509519927 |
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1509519920 |
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