Modern life is speeding-up, incessantly. Strange as it is, while the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all western societies alike, time-famine is rising and individuals report the impression that they have to run faster and faster each year - not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay in place! This book presents an analytic framework to identify the causes and effects of the various speed-up-processes which define modernity - and it develops A Critical Theory of late-modern temporality. Crucial for this is the idea that acceleration in the end leads to monstrous forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions - and from self and others.
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哈特穆特‧罗萨(Hartmut Rosa)，当今世界知名的社会批判理论家，现为德国耶拿大学社会学系教授、系主任，埃尔福特大学韦伯学院社会文化研究所所长，纽约新学院大学客座教授，德国国家科学基金会 “后增长社会”研究项目主持人。
罗萨师从法兰克福学派第三代领军人物霍耐特，对政治哲学、批判理论、社会学理论都有极深的造诣。2005 年他凭借《加速：现代时间结构的改变》一书成为当代最重要的社会理论家之一。他的代表作还有《认同与文化实践》《社会学、资本主义、批判》《共同体理论》《加速时代的世界关系》《共鸣教育学》，以及《共鸣：论世界关系的社会学》等。
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郑作彧，华中科技大学社会学院副教授，社会学系主任、博士生导师。德国柏...
