Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2

by Bernard Stiegler

Book Overview

Max Weber argued that the development of capitalism would lead to the progressive rationalization and disenchantment of society: today this process is reaching its endpoint and capitalism is collapsing into a disturbing kind of irrationality. It engenders spiritual misery - a paralysis of the function of the human mind or spirit - where reason disappears as a motive of hope, a 'kingdom of ends' in Kant's sense. Absolute disenchantment afflicts all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745648118
• ISBN13: 9780745648118
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"