Modernity and"Neo-alienation"in Time Logic—A Review of Rosa's Critical Theory of Social Acceleration
As a representative of the new generation of Frankfurt School,Rosa inherits Horkheimer,Habermas and other ideological traditions that criticize the enslavement of human beings in capitalist society from the perspective of instrumental rationality.On the other hand,he tries to systematically explain from the accelerated level of modern society that the pursuit of"controlling the world"under the superstition of modern natural science has caused the"new alienation"of the relationship between man and the world.In his view,this alienation is different from Marx's alienated labor,but is rooted in the"spatial alienation","object alienation","action alienation","time alienation"and"self-alienation"of the change of time structure in the accelerating process of modernity.Here,time is no longer simply a physical parameter that describes the continuous course of material motion,but is comprehensively involved in the structure of modern society and the content of human life.In addition,accelerating society by virtue of the constantly strengthening time logic has improved the efficiency of people's production and life,but it has led to people having to permanently join the competition for various resources,the ever-increasing pace of life,and the deteriorating quality of life.In order to overcome the above drawbacks,Rosa proposed that a new development model of"post-growth society",which pursues the improvement of"quality",should be introduced at present to build a good life in which people and the world resonate.From the perspective of Marx's historical materialism,Rosa provided a new way to analyze the crisis of capitalist societies,but he did not realize that only by putting the logic of modernity and accelerating logic in the field of capital logic,based on the dimension of transforming the mode of production,and realizing the unity of"natural science"and"human science",can the alienation of human beings in accelerating society be truly resolved.
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