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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Translator’s Introduction: Modernity and Time
In Place of a Preface
Introduction
1. Temporal Structures in Society
2. Two Contemporary Diagnoses of the Times
3. A Theory of Social Acceleration: Preliminary Considerations
Part 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration
1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity
1. Acceleration and the Culture of Modernity
2. Modernization, Acceleration, and Social Theory
2. What is Social Acceleration?
1. Preliminary Considerations: Acceleration and Escalation
2. Three Dimensions of Social Acceleration
3. Five Categories of Inertia
4. On the Relation Between Movement and Inertia in Modernity
Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration
3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime
4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency
5. The Acceleration of the “Pace of Life” and Paradoxes in the Experience of Time
1. Objective Parameters: The Escalation of the Speed of Action
2. Subjective Parameters: Time Pressure and the Experience of Racing Time
3. Temporal Structures and Self-Relations
Part 3. Causes
6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration
7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration
1. Time is Money: The Economic Motor
2. The Promise of Acceleration: The Cultural Motor
3. The Temporalization of Complexity: The Socio-Structural Motor
8. Power, War, and Speed: State and Military as Key Institutional Accelerators
Part 4. Consequences
9. Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity
10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players
1. The Dynamization of the Self in Modernity
2. From Substantial A Priori Identity to Stable A Posteriori Identity: The Temporalization of Life
3. From Temporally Stable to Situational Identity: The Temporalization of Time
11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration
1. Time in Politics—Politics in Time
2. The Temporalization of History in the Modern Age
3. Paradoxical Time Horizons: The Detemporalization of History in Late Modernity
12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity
Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? the End of History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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