High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity, Paperback - Hartmut Rosa

Reducere. Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really ent...

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 u...

A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida, not as secular figures who happened to be Jewish, but as Je...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

No account of 20th Century British art can overlook the numerous works of the period that were essentially "religious" in their content. Art, Faith...

DescriptionThe pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If ...

In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The...

Reducere. Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity, Paperback

This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers...

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Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Independent Scholar, UK) WilsonNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 216 ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Fazlur RahmanNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 139 x 213 x 7Cover type: Pa...

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influe...

Reducere. Why is there so much conflict in personal communication?Well, the answer is simple. Too many people do not hear beyond the words directed at them. ...

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these no...

DescriptionA few years ago, deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today, you can order every conceiva...

Reducere. "Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought" is about the transformative journey to wholeness that was modeled by Christ and is accelerated by a gro...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on their four decades of work with more than 20, 000 people, Drs. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks have synthesized a new approach to p...

Reducere. This book argues that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa must invest in the productivity of ordinary citizens to avoid or escape the mi...

Productivity Power Pack: The Only Guide You Will EVER Need to Supercharge Your Productivity, and Accelerate Your Reading and Learning Skills Do you...

From the highest halls of power to the remote corners of rural America, featuring amazing technological innovation and an epic battle between the c...

Reducere. Learn any skill faster and better than anyone else, speed read, think fast and remember more, like Elon Musk "If something is important enough, eve...

Reducere. The doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained, with only very minor disagreement or development, by all strands of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Antonio (Kingston University London, UK) CerellaIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 288C...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with mo...

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 Euro...

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara lands in South Dakota; to Cherokee lands in Tennessee; to Sin-Aikst, Lakes, and Colville lands in Wash...

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A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses of mainstream Jewish culture and politics