Research Catalog

Title

High-speed society : social acceleration, power, and modernity / edited by Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman.

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Rosa, Hartmut, 1965-
• Scheuerman, William E., 1965-

Description

vi, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays is a first step at exposing readers on this side of the Atlantic to the importance of 'speed dating' and at developing some preliminary conceptual categories for better understanding it."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Speed > Social aspects
• Time pressure
• Time > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 2. High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations -- 6. Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized 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 Labbe -- 10. Speeding Up and Slowing Down / John Urry -- Pt. 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 Munkler -- 14. Speed, Concentric Cultures, and Cosmopolitanism / William E. Connolly -- 15. Citizenship and Speed / William E. Scheuerman.

ISBN

• 9780271034164 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0271034165 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008021775
• 40016411670

OCLC

• ocn229445960
• 229445960
• SCSB-5457522

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries