Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany.

Si l’accélération constitue le problème central de notre temps, la résonance peut être la solution. Telle est la thèse du présent ouvrage, lequel assoit les bases d’une sociologie de la « vie bonne » – en rompant avec l’idée que seules les ressources matérielles, symboliques ou psychiques suffisent à accéder au bonheur. La qualité d’une vie humaine dépend du rapport au monde, p...(展开全部)

Édouard Glissant is Distinguished Professor of French at City University of New York, Graduate Center. Betsy Wing's recent translations include Lucie Aubrac's Outwitting the Gestapo (with Konrad Bieber), Didier Eribon's Michel Foucault and Hélêne Cixous's The Book of Promethea.

Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his native land in the mid-sixties, his writing began to focus on the idea of a "relation...(展开全部)

Although sociology as a discipline is largely based on the empirical research which make up its corpus, it is also the result of a history of practical connections and methodological conflicts. In this book essential works and authors are duly placed in their context and their continuity respected, thus avoiding the pitfalls of relativism which would reduce the discipline to a ...(展开全部)

Although sociology as a discipline is largely based on the empirical research which make up its corpus, it is also the result of a history of practical connections and methodological conflicts. In this book essential works and authors are duly placed in their context and their continuity respected, thus avoiding the pitfalls of relativism which would reduce the discipline to a ...(展开全部)