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Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really entail, and how new is it? While much has been written about our high-speed society in the popular media, serious academic analysis has lagged behind, and what literature there is comes more from Europe than from America. This collection of essays is a first step toward exposing readers on this side of the Atlantic to the importance of this phenomenon and toward developing some preliminary conceptual categories for better understanding it. Among the major questions the volume addresses are these: Is acceleration occurring across all sectors of society and all dimensions of life, or is it affecting some more than others? Where is life not speeding up, and what results from this disparity? What are the fundamental causes of acceleration, as well as its consequences for everyday experience? How does it affect our political and legal institutions? How much speed can we tolerate? The volume tackles these questions in three sections. Part 1 offers a selection of astute early analyses of acceleration as experienced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part 2 samples recent attempts at analyzing social acceleration, including translations of the work of leading European thinkers. Part 3 explores acceleration's political implications.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman Part 1. Classical Perspectives on Social Acceleration 1. A Law of Acceleration Henry Adams 2. The Pace of Life and the Money Economy Georg Simmel 3. The New Religion-Morality of Speed Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 4. The Mania for Motion and Speed John Dewey 5. The Motorized Legislator Carl Schmitt Part 2. High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations 6. Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desychronized High-Speed Society Hartmut Rosa 7. Is There an Acceleration of History? Reinhart Koselleck 8. The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Globalizing Capital and Their Impact on State Power and Democracy Bob Jessop 9. The Contraction of the Present Hermann Lübbe 10. Speeding Up and Slowing Down John Urry Part 3. High-Speed Society: Political Consequences? 11. The State of Emergency Paul Virilio 12. The Nihilism of Speed: On the Work of Paul Virilio Stefan Breuer 13. Temporal Rhythms and Military Force: Acceleration, Deceleration, and War Herfried Münkler 14. Speed, Concentric Circles, and Cosmopolitanism William E. Connolly 15. Citizenship and Speed William E. Scheuerman List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena and Affiliated Professor of Sociology at the New School University. William E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science and Western European Studies at Indiana University.

Review :
"An excellently edited collection of interesting essays on an important subject." - Steven Lukes, New York University"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780271034164
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0271034165
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jan 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity
  • Width: 152 mm


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