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• The Uncontrollability of the World
    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 […]
  Hartmut Rosa, James Wagner (Translator)
• The Uncontrollability of the World
    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 […]
  Hartmut Rosa, James Wagner (Translator)
• Populism in the Civil Sphere
    Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of “populism” […]
  Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto (Editor), Giuseppe Sciortino (Editor)