Description: Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals : Disbelief and Discredit, Paperback by Stiegler, Bernard, ISBN 0745648126, ISBN-13 9780745648125, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 those who no longer have anything to expect from the development of hyper-industrial society. Those who are desperate become "desperados", and they are becoming more and more numerous. No longer having anything to expect means, at the same time, no longer having anything to fear. And the proliferating repressive mechanisms that are supposed to cope with the effects of this loss of authority turn out to be less and less effective. For such measures engender more and more the opposite of that for which they were intended, but in extreme and totally irrational, unpredictable Back cover.
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Book Title: Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals : Disbelief a
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals : Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: Media Studies, Sociology / General, History & Theory, General, Social Psychology
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Bernard. Stiegler
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
