Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left - Hardcover

Taylor, Mark

 
9780300206470: Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030020647X ISBN 13: 9780300206470
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

A leading thinker asks why “faster” is synonymous with “better” in our hurried world and suggests how to take control of our runaway lives

We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives.  When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable?  Is faster always better?

Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were supposed to free us by saving time and labor now trap us in a race we can never win. The faster we go, the less time we have, and the more we try to catch up, the farther behind we fall.  Connecting our speed-obsession with today’s global capitalism, he composes a grand narrative showing how commitments to economic growth and extreme competition, combined with accelerating technological innovation, have brought us close to disaster.  Psychologically, environmentally, economically, and culturally, speed is taking a profound toll on our lives.

By showing how the phenomenon of speed has emerged, Taylor offers us a chance to see our pace of life as the product of specific ideas, practices, and policies.  It’s not inevitable or irreversible.  He courageously and movingly invites us to imagine how we might patiently work towards a more deliberative life and sustainable world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark C. Taylor is professor and chair, Department of Religion, Columbia University. He lives in Williamstown, MA and New York, NY.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030020647X
ISBN 13 
9780300206470
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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