The Uncontrollability of the World

by Hartmut Rosa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509543163
• ISBN13: 9781509543168
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"