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The Uncontrollability of the World (Paperback)
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The Uncontrollability of the World (Paperback)
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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. 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. 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.
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