Sul fare «volontariamente» quello che non si vorrebbe fare
In my comment on Rosa’s paper, I focus on two specific aspects of what I call the «tale of the 4 A’s», the narrative of the interrelation of Acceleration, Autonomy, Authenticity and Alienation. In particular, I am interested in taking a closer look at one presupposition which undergirds Rosa’s criti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2017
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Pages: 37-43 |
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| Summary: | In my comment on Rosa’s paper, I focus on two specific aspects of what I call the «tale of the 4 A’s», the narrative of the interrelation of Acceleration, Autonomy, Authenticity and Alienation. In particular, I am interested in taking a closer look at one presupposition which undergirds Rosa’s critique of acceleration. Why should «doing vo-luntarily what one wouldn’t want to do» be, without further qualification, equated with alienation? What kind of autonomy (and authenticity) must one have in mind in order to think so? Furthermore, when reading Rosa’s critique of acceleration it is unclear 1) whether you could have an innocuous acceleration by disjoining acceleration from the competitiveness of life under capitalism and neo-liberalism; 2) whether acceleration by itself is a cause of competition (we compete because only the faster-adapting among us will survive), or 3) it is an effect of it (if there weren’t winners and losers, we wouldn’t care to keep apace). A word of clarification on this causal nexus of acceleration and competition—so crucial for the argument—would be desirable. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/ANNALI_STUDI_RELIG_18201703 |